‘William Shakespeare 2000’s’or "New William Shakespeare" exquisite blooms are of the richest velvety crimson, gradually changing to an equally rich purple. They are deeply cupped at first, the flowers soon opening out to form shallow, quartered cups.
This rose has the strong, warm Old Rose fragrance that we expect, but do not always find, in deep red roses. It forms a neat, upright shrub; each stem bearing a number of flowers. It was named the Most Fragrant Rose 2011 in the Hamilton trials in New Zealand.
Named in honour of England’s greatest playwright who was himself voted ‘British Man of the Millennium’. Notes from the DA site.. As usual the sizes given according to British conditions are way off the mark when grown in
Australia.. double the size and you may be nearer the mark.