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Comments (27)I personally have at about 5000ft elev in SW Montana: 1)William Baffin - reachingabout 10' now after 10 years, up and over an archway, with Clematis "Bluebird" threatening to take it over each summer! Low care, rarely dead to cut out, no spray, annual feeding of composted manure and annual Bayer Tree and Shrub application. 2) Adelaide Hoodless: Never much die back but i cut it back pretty hard becasue it is a flopper otherwise - 3-4 ft H & W, a nice recurrent red. 3) Champlain: Took them all out last year - one of the prettiest hardy everblooming reds but two years of dieback followed by recurrent bouts of powdery mildew means they can't stay in my postage stamp size of a garden... 4) Flower Girl: a floribunda with minimal dieback and pretty clusters of baby pink single flowers. to 2 ft. No disease issues. 5) David Austin's Gertrude Jeckyll: Dies back some years but rebounds well to 3-3.5ft and the fragrance from these large mauve blossoms is out of this world!!!! 6) Rosa glauca - red leaf rose to 8 ft H That foliage, those hips!!!! 7) Austrian Copper - a bugger with black spot but needed the orange in that spot - it will go when I expand the grape arbor! 8) John Franklin - a lovely red with the sweetest form in bud and flower, nice clean foliage and overall shape. I don't grow any of the rugosa hybrids that have the matte foliage such as hansa and Belle Poitevin - the flowers are gorgeous but they are particularly resentful of our alkaline soils, even with heavy ammending. That is my current inventory but I have grown others in this area: a quick list...Bonica - lt pink,Graham Thomas - a DA yellow, Henry Kelsey - red climber, Knock out - red, any of the Morden series, Winnipeg Parks - rosy pink with good foliage, Therese Bugnet - nice pink but sometime chlorotic... Looking to try Starry Night as I don't currently have a white and maybe add another DA or 2! happy rose growing to all!...See MoreRare Rose Auction by California Coastal Rose Society
Comments (15)Well then look for us next year -- same time, same place. We had a few internet bidders, but mostly it was locals, and, as expected, we had more roses than bidders. So there were some great deals to be had. I was "bottom fishing," (i.e. searching for those rarities that didn't get much bidding attention from anyone else) and ended up spending only a total of $80 for ten roses, all for interesting varieties that are mostly new to me. But now I have them and will post photos as they bloom. I got roses that run the gamut: Ain't She Sweet -- Joe Winchel's hot pink hybrid tea from the same line that produced the rose "Dolly Parton." Beauty Within -- a new J & P yellow floribunda. introduction that won "best floribunda" at the International Rose Trial at Rose Hills just last month. Bukavu -- a Louis Lens hybrid musk that has been winning at rose shows recently. Honorine de Brabant -- a striped OGR bourbon for my stripey collection. Merveille des Rouges -- a red polyantha. New Orleans -- a brand new shrub introduction from Heirlooms this year that I'm excited about. Robert Clements -- an Heirlooms old classic that has many good reports, but I've never seen this orange shrub in person. Schubert -- a mauve shrub that grows like a polyantha Summer Fashion -- a pastel yellow and pink floribunda I used to grow and remember liking. Vif Eclat -- a red hybrid musk, which I bought because hybrid musks are usually pink and white, so this seemed very unusual. Again, I'll post pics when I have them of these, and we hope to see you next year. Btw, Connie was correct -- we don't ship for free, but rather at "our cost," which mean you pay for shipping, but only the actual cost of postage and supplies, nothing for our labor and no markups of any kind. Kathy...See MoreSummer Song - David Austin Rose
Comments (67)For me, Summer Song has one of the most amazing scents and colors. Just gorgeous. In my Western European garden, it is a spindly plant, gangly, but thriving. It was purchased from David Austin EU. In its habit, it reminds me a bit of a less vigorous Claire Austin. It just shoots out canes in different directions, and every which way, and is happiest thus. It is not just growing perfectly upright, like some of its neighbors in the same bed (Olivia, for example). It does not get to be anywhere as large as Claire Austin. And it would work in smaller space. It really does not like the repeated 32-35 degree celsius heatwaves this summer, which are exceptional in this climate, and hopefully will not become the new norm. Before I moved it, it was in a pot on the patio (afternoon sun). In that spot, blooms would crinkle and wilt in the sun on the same day they opened. This was not a question of watering and other roses are doing fine there, so it is perhaps more heat sensitive than most. So it had to be moved from a pot on the patio to a shadier spot between other plants where the sun is not as strong. The sun still hits it, but the ground is just a bit fresher and cooler in its new spot. It is also between other roses, which compensates for its lack of bushiness. As the DA Rose Geek video was mentioned above, I seemed to recall her mentioning that the plants were often planted in clusters of more than one bush at DA to give them a fuller look, so that might explain why it looked fuller in that clip. In its first year in my garden, Summer song probably had a handful of blooms in two small flushes. But as it was healthy, had zero dieback, and had just a color like no other--this rich, vibrant pinkish dark orange--it stayed on for year two. It now has far more blooms than in its first year, and lovely leaves. It is not as prolific as, say Royal Jubilee Mary Rose, both of whom, starting in their first year, were almost continuous bloomers. On Summer Song, in its second summer, there is almost always a bud if not a flower, and it did have a good first flush of 5-10 flowers, so it is really doing quite well. And might have been even more impressive if the poor thing hadn't been moved this summer. But it seemed to rally from that quickly, perhaps the relief of being some place cooler. The fragrance is also magnificient. Not the typical David Austin myrrh sent but very sweet, And it's one of the better fragrances, I would say. Most roses really come into their own in their third year, so I imagine, it will keep improving with age in this climate, which is usually moderate in both summer and winter, especially when compared to many parts of the US....See MoreWhat are your favorite (not so common) Austin roses?
Comments (195)My Chianti was about 6 ft high and about 8 ft wide. And constance about the same. And i had them up on an embankment and they kind of hung down over. Which worked well as the roses tend to "nod" on the ends of the canes. So you could look up into them. They could have done with a bit of support as they tended to have very long canes. I've just bought the wedgewood rose, in my new house, and have that similarly up on an embankment but have given it some support this time. That one repeats but is yet to flower so I don't know if I will like it as much yet. I loved constance to bits. What zone am I? I don't know the equivalents, sorry. It rarely gets colder than about 14 degree F in winter and we hardly ever get snow. And in summer it's around 86 F, but we have a few days that can top 100....See More- last month
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