A low shrub with upright stems around 1m high. Flowers pink, in small clusters, medium-sized, semi-double and deeply cupped, with about 8 rows of overlapping petals around a good head of stamens, with strong myrrh scent, produced continously throughout the summer. Raised by David Austin in 1992, and named for England, from John of Gaunt’s speech, when old and sick:
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, ...
This other Eden, demi-paradise
.............................. ...this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,

Richard II, act 2, scene 1.
Photographed at Wilton Cottage, Wilton, Wiltshire UK.