Rosa 'Wife of Bath' | |
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Hybrid parentage | 'Mme Caroline Testout' × ('Ma Perkins' × 'Constance Spry') |
Cultivar group | Modern shrub / English rose |
Cultivar | 'Wife of Bath' |
Marketing names | 'AUSbath', 'Auswife', 'Glücksburg', 'Rosarium Glücksburg', 'The Wife of Bath' |
Breeder | David Austin |
Origin | England, 1969 |
Rosa 'Wife of Bath' (aka AUSbath), is a pink shrub rose cultivar developed by David C.H. Austin in England in 1969. It was one of his early cultivars and is named after a character from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. 'Rosarium Glücksburg' is a rose garden in the park of Schloss Glücksburg in Glücksburg, Germany.