Introduced in the UK by R. Harkness and Sons.

NRS Annual 1962, p162

When I was 12 and we had just moved from No. California to Columbus, OH, in the spring of 1980 Woburn Abbey was the very first rose I planted in what wasn't even yet the new rose garden. We had gone to a Spring Garden Expo somewhere in downtown Columbus and one of the few vendors actually selling plants had those boxes of roses available. I remembered Woburn Abbey from a little red rose book I had been gifted for my 6th birthday and of course had to have it, it seemed so esoteric! It ended up being in the garden until we left that property in 1987, survived my Dad's big Round-Up error, survived the horrifyingly cold winters of 83-84 and 84-85. It is stronger growing and far healthier than either of its parents.

Woburn Abbey is a beautiful rose for a low to medium hedge of bright peach and orange tinged with yellow in the middle. Sometimes with hints of pink or more subtle peach tones on the edges, depending upon weather. Can produce some huge but fairly well spaced clusters. Disease resistant as well.

Available from - trewellyn nurserie