The Lark Ascending ®

English rose (David Austin, 2012)

The Lark Ascending ®

Growth height 150 cm Width 100 cm

Apricot shrub rose for hedges

  • – Semi-double blooms in large clusters, repeat-flowering
  • – Vigorous, upright, loose growth to 150 cm, tolerates partial shade
  • – Light fragrance of tea rose and myrrh, attracts insects
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Bare-root roses are delivered without pot and soil – fresh from the field, in the planting season from October to April. They establish particularly well and are cheaper than container-grown plants.
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Name (bot.)
Rosa 'The Lark Ascending'
other names
AUSursula
Breeder / year
David Austin / 2012
Height x width
150 x 100 cm
Flower size
medium-sized
Flower shape
Semi-double
Flower colour
apricot
Flowering habit
repeat-flowering
Fragrance
Slight, of myrrh and tea roses
Thorniness
normally thorned / not specified

This stately shrub rose bears its graceful, semi-double, apricot-coloured blooms in large clusters, held just above the soil. They exude a slight tea-rose fragrance with a hint of myrrh. The charming rose bush is very healthy and has a vigorously upright, loose growth habit. Thanks to its loosely double blooms, it attracts insects. It is suitable for naturalistic gardens, in a border, a hedge or as a specimen planting, even in partial shade.

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Fantastic
I own over 30 roses in total.
But if I could only plant a single one, it would be The Lark Ascending.
This rose simply brims with health and it flowers all the time! Really all the time! I have it in full sun, which doesn't bother it. Even rain can't harm the petals. Even in the harsh winter of 20/21 it didn't die back a single centimetre (the only one!)
It smells wonderful, not so old fashion, but still sweet and rosy. I can smell it at breakfast through the slightly open patio door.
On top of that it is insect-friendly and is visited by wild bees, hoverflies and bumblebees.
When it gets aphids, which always happens in spring, I just wait for hoverflies and the matter is settled after a short time.
The only drawback might be its many thorns, because it is a real thorn monster (similar to Munstead Wood).

The size indications are, as with most Austins, wrong once again. Only recently it has pushed out several shoots over 2 metres long. The longest is 2.5 m long. And it is not even 3 years old yet.

It forms a beautiful, spreading shrub if you don't tie it up high, see photo. The upper shoots are fresh, which is why it isn't flowering so lavishly right now, but there are already plenty of buds on it again.
I do prune it regularly, but I'm pretty sure it would flower regularly even without pruning.

All in all my absolute favourite rose (and that despite having quite a few very wonderful roses such as Ghislaine de Feligonde, Mary Rose, Pomponella, ...)

PS: The colour is a little softer in real life than in the photos.
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07.09.2021 11:34Fuchstal-Asch
Equal to all weather
The Lark Ascending grows in my garden in a full-sun and rather stony spot.
After four years in place it has not only established itself as a continuously flowering, very vigorous and insect-friendly beauty, above all it delights me with a weather resistance that has come through permanent frosts of below minus 10 degrees as well as the heat and drought periods of recent years unscathed. I only watered it to get established, in the first two years in place.
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20.08.2026 18:41Ostbayern
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