Its flowers are 6 in (150 mm) in diameter, with a large, double high-centered bloom form.

John and Robert soon realized that Yorkshire's climate was too cold for an expanding rose growing business.

Neither brother wanted to leave Yorkshire, so it was decided by a coin toss that Robert would move to Hitchin, Hertfordshire to establish the new branch of Harkness and Sons.

In 1901, John and Robert decided to dissolve the company and create two separate nurseries.

[4] The cultivar was developed by Austin in 1987 from a cross between the hybrid tea, 'Silver Jubilee' and the Floribunda, 'Amber Queen'.