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'AUScousin' rose Description
'Boscobel ® (shrub, Austin 2012)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Johno
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
62 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
Origin:
Bred by David C. H. Austin (1926-2018) (United Kingdom, 2004).
Introduced in United Kingdom by David Austin Roses Limited (UK) in 2012 as 'Boscobel'.
Introduced in Australia by Treloar Roses in 2017 as 'Boscobel'.
Class:
Shrub.   (Series: English Rose Collection)  
Bloom:
Salmon-pink.  Moderate, myrrh fragrance.  up to 78 petals.  Average diameter 3.5".  Large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped, rosette bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Rounded buds.  
Habit:
Medium, bushy, upright.  Glossy, dark green foliage.  5 leaflets.  

Height: 35" to 39" (90 to 100cm).  Width: up to 2' (up to 60cm).
Growing:
Rain tolerant.  
Patents:
Australia - Patent  on  11 Feb 2016
Application No: 2014/306  on  4 Dec 2014   VIEW PBR PATENT
In 2004, at the nursery of David Austin Roses Limited, Bowling Green Lane, Albrighton, Wolverhampton, England, an unnamed seedling was selected to be the mother and an unnamed seedling was selected to be the father. The resulting seed was sown in January 2005, from which a number of seedlings grew. The best of these seedlings was then selected and from this plant, in July 2005, 8 buds were taken and grafted (using the T-budding method) onto Rosa Laxa rootstock outdoors. The following year, in 2006, the variety was considered good enough to be increased by grafting to 30 plants. Next year, in 2007, the increase was up to 200, and two years after that, in 2009, it was increased to 1,500. In 2011 the variety was increased by further budding to 5,000, sufficient budding for a commercial introduction in the UK in May 2012
 
European Union - Application No: 2012/1945  on  12 Sep 2012
 
New Zealand - Patent No: 33021  on  25 Jul 2017
Application No: ROS1031  on  19 Feb 2016
 
United States - Patent No: PP 25,064  on  18 Nov 2014   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 13/986,067  on  12 Sep 2012
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of shrub rose plant named ‘AUScousin’, which was originated by crossing two unnamed, unpatented varieties of Rosa hybrida. ...The following description is of 1 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Albrighton, Britain in the month of July.
Parentage:
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Notes:
Named after Boscobel House (1632) in Shropshire, England.