Bring Me Sunshine® by David Austin®

Warm, cheerful, and overflowing with classic English Rose charm, Bring Me Sunshine® is a beautiful David Austin® English Shrub Rose celebrated for its rich sunset orange-yellow blooms that gradually soften to glowing apricot. Introduced in 2022, this newer David Austin variety combines deeply filled romantic flowers with a wonderfully complex myrrh fragrance and a healthy, upright growth habit. 

The large blooms begin in rich shades of orange-yellow and golden sunset, opening into deeply cupped, generously filled rosettes. As each flower matures, the coloring gradually pales toward softer apricot tones, allowing several shades to appear across the plant at the same time. The result is a warm, luminous display that seems to glow in the garden.

Its fragrance is equally distinctive. Bring Me Sunshine® carries a medium-strong, complex myrrh fragrance, giving the flowers the unmistakable character associated with many of David Austin's most beloved English Roses. 

The plant forms a healthy, upright and bushy shrub approximately 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide, making it substantial enough for a dedicated rose garden or mixed border while remaining manageable in the landscape. It is also repeat flowering, producing fresh flushes from late spring into the cooler part of the season. 

Key Features

David Austin lists Bring Me Sunshine® as a large-bloomed, repeat-flowering English Shrub Rose for Zones 5–11; other nursery references place its petal count around 70–75+. 

Growing Information

Bring Me Sunshine® is notably versatile regarding placement. David Austin recommends it for full sun or partial shade and lists it as suitable for a variety of soil types and exposures. 

Ideal Uses

✔ Mixed Rose Borders
✔ Dedicated Rose Gardens
✔ Cottage & English Gardens
✔ Cutting Gardens
✔ Fragrance Gardens
✔ Mixed Perennial Borders
✔ Partial-Shade Garden Areas
✔ Specimen Plantings
✔ Romantic Landscapes
✔ Fresh Floral Arrangements

Recommended Growing Regions

With a broad recommended range of USDA Zones 5–11, Bring Me Sunshine® can be grown throughout much of the United States, including:

• Northeast

• Mid-Atlantic

• Midwest

• Southeast

• Deep South

• Pacific Northwest

• West Coast

• Many areas of the Southwest

In particularly hot climates, providing adequate moisture and some protection from the harshest afternoon sun can help preserve flower quality.

Sunset Colors in a Single Rose

Color is one of the most captivating qualities of Bring Me Sunshine®.

The flowers begin in a wonderfully saturated sunset orange-yellow, but they don't remain a single color throughout their life. As the blooms mature, they gradually soften into lighter shades of warm apricot. 

With newly opened flowers appearing alongside older blooms, the shrub can display a beautiful blend of golden yellow, warm orange, and soft apricot at the same time.

It pairs especially beautifully with roses in shades of:

• Cream and ivory

• Blush pink

• Soft yellow

• Peach and apricot

• Lavender

• Deeper burgundy or plum

For a warm, romantic garden palette, it is an exceptional companion to other apricot and blush David Austin roses.

Beautifully Full English Rose Form

Bring Me Sunshine® has exactly the kind of flower form that draws gardeners to English Roses.

Its large flowers are deeply filled and cupped, gradually revealing beautifully arranged rosette centers as they open. 

The substantial petal count gives each bloom a lush, romantic quality without sacrificing the warm, cheerful personality created by its coloring.

Against the green foliage and upright growth, the flowers create a wonderfully abundant garden display.

A Complex Myrrh Fragrance

Bring Me Sunshine® isn't simply a rose grown for color.

Its flowers carry a medium-strong, complex myrrh fragrance, adding another classic David Austin characteristic to the variety. 

This makes it particularly rewarding near frequently enjoyed areas of the garden—patios, paths, garden benches, porches, or cutting beds—where both the flowers and their fragrance can be appreciated.

Cut stems also allow its unusual color and fragrance to be enjoyed indoors.

Behind the Name

Even the name of this rose feels cheerful.

Bring Me Sunshine® was named after the song “Bring Me Sunshine,” famously associated with the British comedy duo Morecambe and Wise. 

It's a wonderfully fitting name for a rose whose glowing orange-yellow and apricot flowers bring such warmth to the landscape.

A Shrub—or Even a Short Climber

Although Bring Me Sunshine® is sold as an English Shrub Rose, it has interesting potential for gardeners who prefer a taller plant.

David Austin's UK collection also recognizes Bring Me Sunshine® as suitable for training as a short climber reaching approximately 8 feet under appropriate growing conditions. 

Gardeners in climates where David Austin roses grow especially vigorously may therefore choose to allow longer canes to develop and train them against a fence, pillar, or other support rather than maintaining the plant strictly as a shrub.

Why You'll Love Bring Me Sunshine®

• Gorgeous sunset orange-yellow blooms that mature to soft apricot

• Large, deeply filled, cupped English rosettes

• Approximately 70–75+ petals

• Medium-strong complex myrrh fragrance

• Repeat flowering throughout the growing season

• Healthy, upright and bushy growth

• Approximately 4' × 4' as a shrub

• Suitable for Zones 5–11

• Performs in full sun or partial shade

• Beautiful choice for cutting and fragrant arrangements

• Can potentially be trained as a short climber in suitable conditions

• Warm coloring pairs beautifully with blush, cream, pink, and apricot roses

• A newer David Austin introduction with unmistakable English Rose character

Bright, romantic, and wonderfully inviting, Bring Me Sunshine® by David Austin® truly lives up to its name. With its glowing sunset-orange flowers fading into soft apricot, deeply filled rosettes, distinctive myrrh fragrance, repeat flowering, and healthy garden habit, it brings a warm wash of sunshine to the garden from one beautiful flush to the next.