About David Austin® Queen of Sweden® Potted Rose Bush

Rosa ‘Austiger’ – Queen of Sweden® Rose

Queen of Sweden® is a rose of elegance, restraint, and luminous grace. Her softly glowing blooms open from neat apricot-pink buds into delicate chalice-shaped flowers of clear soft pink, each bloom held upright with remarkable poise above the foliage. Unlike many heavily nodding roses, her flowers face outward and upward, giving the shrub an unusually composed and architectural presence.

The fragrance is refined and gentle, carrying notes of myrrh with a subtle sweetness that never overwhelms. Repeating steadily through the season, Queen of Sweden® combines classic romance with a distinctly modern clarity of form.

Her naturally upright habit creates vertical rhythm within the garden, making her especially valuable for structured borders, formal layouts, and layered perennial compositions where order and softness need to coexist.

💐 Plant & Flower Traits

🌹 Rose Type: English Shrub Rose
🧬 Breeder: David Austin Roses (United Kingdom)
🎨 Color: Soft clear pink with apricot-pink buds
🌸 Petal Count: Fully double
💠 Bloom Form: Upright chalice-shaped blooms
🔁 Flowering: Repeat bloomer throughout the season
🧴 Fragrance: Light to medium myrrh fragrance

🏡 Growth & Garden Habits

🌿 Growth Type: Upright shrub rose
🌬️ Spatial Habit: Vertical, orderly, and lightly structured
🌾 Garden Role: Structural rhythm plant or elegant border anchor
🎭 Mood: Refined, serene, poised, quietly regal

☀️ Light Requirements: Full sun
❄️ Hardiness Zones: USDA 5–9

📐 Spacing: 3′–4′
↕️ Height: 4′–5′
↔️ Width: 2′–3′

Her upright habit makes her especially effective in formal borders, narrow planting spaces, rose hedging, and layered gardens where vertical structure is needed without heaviness.

🕰️ Seasonal Character

Elegant waves of upright blooms appear continuously from late spring through fall, maintaining a fresh and composed appearance even during periods of active flowering.

🛡️ Health & Suitability

🌱 Root Stock: Own Root or Budded
💪 Disease Resistance: Excellent with strong repeat performance
🧰 Maintenance Level: Moderate routine rose care recommended

🌎 Landscape Uses

Beautiful in formal rose borders, cottage gardens, foundation plantings, low hedges, courtyard gardens, and mixed perennial compositions where structure and softness are equally important.