Scepter'd Isle Rose
Rosa 'Scepter'd Isle'
David Austin Roses
Shrub Rose
$74.00
This lovely rose bears numerous, cupped, light pink flowers with paler outer petals and golden stamens; has a lovely myrrh scent; vigorous, and compact in size; should be deadheaded regularly and is excellent for cut flowers
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Scepter'd Isle Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape | but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Scepter'd Isle Rose features showy fragrant shell pink flowers with white overtones and gold eyes at the ends of the branches from late spring to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall.
Planting and Growing
Scepter'd Isle Rose will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 3 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.
This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions | but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 4'Hx3'W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are shell pink with strong fragrance
Flowers from late spring to mid fall
Attracts bees
Fall color yellow
Zone 6a
Likes well drained soil