Medium-sized, pale pink, semi-double or fully double blooms, uniform and free of stripes or spots, with a soft pink tone. - landscape shrub rose - medium-strength, pleasantly scented rose - soft, sweet, classic wild-rose aroma
– Medium-strength, classic wild-rose fragrance
– Healthy shrub with good disease resistance
– Robust winter hardiness down to –21 °C
– Ideal for hedges and naturalistic plantings
– Excellent bee-attracting, pollinator-friendly flowers Special feature: Showy orange-red hips give vivid winter colour.
Nature-inspired style – Garden-friendly choice
pharmaROSA® ORIGINAL 2-litre own-root potted rose
18,80 €
4(5897)
ROSA CANINA ABBOTSWOOD – pink landscape shrub rose - Fred Tustin
If You dream of a natural, romantic hedge or specimen rose that simply works, Rosa canina Abbotswood offers an easy, countryside feel without fussy care. This botanical-style shrub brings once-a-year, soft pink flowering followed by showy autumn hips for long seasonal interest. With its healthy foliage and reliable hardiness, it suits typical Irish gardens where soils can be heavy and winters are damp, coping well as long as basic drainage is in place. The medium-sized, semi-double blooms have accessible stamens, making this variety particularly bee-friendly and ideal if You want movement and life around Your beds. As an own-root plant in the pharmaROSA® ORIGINAL 2-litre pot, it settles in steadily for a long lifespan, rebuilding from its base if ever cut back hard. You simply plant, water and enjoy its hedge-forming vigour as it matures into a bushy structure, with year 1 focused on roots, year 2 on top growth and year 3 revealing its full naturalistic character.
Rosa canina 'Abbotswood' with pale pink, semi-double flowers in full bloom.
Use cases
Target area
Reason
Front garden focal shrub
Ideal as a single specimen where You want soft pink, wild-rose style blooms followed by generous orange-red hips, giving a long season of interest with very little shaping required, perfect for a relaxed, informal front garden for the beginner.
Informal flowering hedge
Planted at hedge spacing, its bushy growth and dense prickles form a natural, informal boundary that flowers once in summer, then closes the season with colourful hips, needing only occasional thinning rather than precise pruning, suiting the time-pressed homeowner.
Naturalistic / wild-rose-style planting
Blends easily into meadow-style or wilder corners, echoing the look of native dog-rose while offering a named, reliable cultivar, useful where You want a structured, nature-inspired feel rather than formal rose bedding, appealing to nature-loving gardeners.
Pollinator-friendly mixed border
The semi-double flowers with exposed stamens are specifically attractive to bees and other pollinators, making it a strong choice for wildlife-friendly borders near patios or paths, where movement and buzzing life are welcome for eco-conscious families.
Low-maintenance cottage-style front garden
Works beautifully with cottage favourites such as lavender, rosemary or dwarf oregano, giving a soft, rural character without complicated pruning schedules, ideal for bringing a touch of countryside charm to busy urban front gardens cared for by casual gardeners.
Larger natural-effect family gardens
In bigger spaces it can be spaced as a loose group or drift, giving a gentle, park-style effect that stays robust over many years, rewarding minimal care with sturdy growth and seasonal colour, a dependable backbone for long-term planning for practical owners.
Screening and privacy with seasonal interest
Its bushy habit and prickly stems provide screening and discourage access, while pink summer flowers and bright hips keep the barrier attractive year-round, offering both privacy and beauty in side boundaries or back-of-garden positions valued by security-conscious households.
Mixed shrub border in wetter, heavy-soil sites
Performs well in typical Irish conditions when planted with reasonable drainage, coping with cooler, wetter spells that challenge fussier roses, so it is a sound choice for mixed shrub borders on heavier soils looked after by busy, no-nonsense gardeners.
Decorating ideas
Cottage Hedge Weave – Plant a loose hedge of Rosa canina Abbotswood and intersperse with lavender and Gypsophila repens for a soft, flowering boundary – ideal for families who like a romantic cottage edge with minimal upkeep.
Wildlife Welcome Corner – Combine this pollinator-magnet rose with dwarf oregano and a simple birdbath to create a buzzing, wildlife-friendly nook – perfect for beginners wanting nature interest without complex planting plans.
Parkland Drift – In larger lawns, group three to five plants with airy grasses and California lilac for a naturalistic, park-style drift – suited to homeowners seeking a mature, long-lived look that largely takes care of itself.
Rural Front-Garden Frame – Use one or two shrubs to frame the front path, underplanting with low perennials for an inviting, rose-scented entrance – great for busy urban gardeners wanting instant charm and easy seasonal structure.
Hip and Winter Colour Line – Line a back fence with these shrubs so their orange-red hips stand out against evergreens and bare branches – appealing to those who value year-round interest and dislike high-maintenance pruning.
Technical cultivar profile
Parameter
Data
Name and registration
Rosa canina Abbotswood is a botanical landscape shrub rose, also known in exhibition use as R. watsoniana; bred by Fred Tustin and offered under the pharmaROSA® ORIGINAL range for gardens.
Origin and breeding
Raised in the United Kingdom before 1954, from Rosa canina crossed with an unknown variety; first distributed by T. Hilling & Co in 1954, with no additional registration data recorded.
Growth and structure
Bushy, vigorous shrub with moderately dense, slightly glossy dark green foliage and densely prickled stems; suited to hedging, specimen and naturalistic plantings where a robust, informal structure is desired.
Flower morphology
Semi-double flowers with approximately 5–12 petals, carried in clusters; extra-large blooms around 3.5 inches across; not remontant, giving one main flowering display in season rather than repeat flushes.
Colour and phenology
Soft, pale pink flowers, uniform in tone without stripes or spotting; colour retention is moderate, with no detailed data on fading; overall effect is a gentle, classic wild-rose look in full bloom.
Fragrance and aroma
Medium-strength scent with a soft, sweet wild-rose character; pleasantly noticeable in still air without being overpowering, adding to the naturalistic charm in cottage-style or informal garden settings.
Rose hip characteristics
Produces large, egg-shaped orange-red hips, about 15–20 mm across; mainly ornamental, giving strong autumn and winter colour and visual interest, especially effective in hedges and mixed shrub borders.
Resistance and hardiness
Classed as a healthy, disease-resistant shrub rose with good overall vigour; hardy to approximately −21 to −18 °C (H6, USDA 6b, Swedish zone 6), making it suitable for most Irish garden climates.
Horticultural recommendations
Low maintenance, seldom needs regular pruning; space at 115 cm for hedges, 190 cm for mass planting or 285 cm as a specimen; tolerates partial shade and is ideal for natural-effect gardens and park-style plantings.
Rosa canina Abbotswood offers easy-care, naturalistic flowering, wildlife-friendly hips and a long-lived own-root shrub that settles in reliably over time, making it a confident choice if You want a straightforward rose that simply fits into Your garden.
Detailed product attributes
Product Identification Data
Product Name:
ROSA CANINA ABBOTSWOOD – pink landscape shrub rose - Fred Tustin
Product Type:
pharmaROSA® ORIGINAL - 2-litre own-root potted rose
Pollinator Attraction:
Semi-double, approximately 4 cm pink flowers have partially exposed stamens, so they attract pollinators well, as the semi-double bloom form and stamen accessibility increase their appeal to pollinating insects.
Pollinator-Friendly Rating:
Specifically a pollinator-friendly variety (Lens Roses specifically recommends it as a bee-attracting bijenplant rose).
Maintenance Requirements:
Maintenance requirement low; a vigorous, winter-hardy, healthy variety with good overall disease resistance, does not require regular pruning and therefore generally needs little intervention.
Our product is a rose grown with unique pharmaROSA® cultivation technology!
2 litre, own-root, potted rose.
With shoots appropriate to the season.
With roots thoroughly interwoven through the growing medium.
Quality in line with the requirements of the E.N.A. (European Nurserystock Association).
In unique packaging that prevents damage.
Can be planted during frost-free periods.
True-to-type rose plant with an individual identifier.
The pharmaROSA® own-root potted rose is a well-rooted plant that supports reliable establishment when planted and cared for properly, so it can be planted whenever the soil is not frozen.
Stock: several varieties and several stages of development in a short stock section.Shoot system: intensive growth of fresh basal shoots on a young plant.Root system: presentation of the strong root system interwoven through the growing medium with the pot removed.Balance: mature plant where the development of the root system and the shoots is in harmony.
Information about the videos
The video series is not a “seasonal showcase”, but makes the essence of pharmaROSA® own-root production tangible: how the plant is built, what the root system is like and how the shoots renew themselves. The footage was therefore taken at different times, showing plants at different stages of development, so mixed leaf coverage or differing growth stages may appear in the videos. This is not a “sample” of the batch delivered, but an illustration of how the technology works. The current condition of the rose available to order — typical of the given period and similar to what you can expect to receive in the parcel — is shown at the top of the product page.
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Company details
PharmaRosa Ltd. Company registration number: 01-09-717479 VAT number: 13075314-2-43 Plant health registration no.: HU130721 Bank account (IBAN): HU85117631891388688400000000 BIC (SWIFT): OTPVHUHB Bank name: OTP Bank Nyrt.
