Also, I was wondering if there are similar globular roses with the stamens visible but retaining the globular shape and not flattening out.

Austin's 'Comte de Champagne' is like that, open/globular. I don't know anything more than that--Netherlands is probably a better climate for that shape than here where it is hotter and drier and roses blow faster.

Oh, Comte imho has a better color than Nun, thanks for mentioning him. Blowing is not an issue here usually and he might be a nice option for my yellow/orange corner.

The Shepherdess has a similar bloom form, but perhaps more petals.

The Shepherdess is fairly new to my garden, planted last year. It has a charming bloom, and I've been very pleased with it so far.

ah, i grow compte de champagne and as it is such a lovely rose, i am a bit sad that I have to report it is a bit stingy for me. The petals drop very quickly and it has not the nicest growth habit. BUT, it's flowers are ethereally beautiful, a soft creamy apricot/pale yellow, fading to soft white. If a specific bloom makes you weak, then grow it but if you are more concerned with the overall bush, well.....
I do know what you mean about globular blooms, though. This is my favourite shape, after the basic five petals species, and I love to see stamens - button eyes or great fluffy wads of petals do nothing much for me.

Jude the Obscure does it for me, as far as Austins, and I have high hopes of claire austin. Love the bourbons too - Reine Victoria, Mme Pierre Oger, Coupe de Hebe

I have Jude the Obscure, he is indeed very lovely. I am not particularly swooning over the Nun type of bloom (not in a way I do about Raubritter anyways), but some of the pics with globular + stamens look very lovely. Might still try it though, should not be too bad among all sorts of yellow perennials.

Jacqueline du Pré also seems to be a bit globular from the pictures I have seen of her and has similar look to The Nun.

It's a pure and simple rose I've never stopped to take a picture of it and I take a lot of pictures. I don't dislike it I always stop and look at it when I see it just doesn't do it for me. For Stamens I like Frühlingsmorgen.

I also have jaqueline du Pre - I am thinking we have some very similar tastes, elemire. It is new to me this year and so far only one bloom which opened fairly flat and very fast - I have not seen the bud stage. Very excited with this one though as it is a rose I have wanted for some time. Will report back. Oh, yes, Sophie's perpetual, another new one for me - check it out. My first china.

I was out in boiling brooklyn Botanical Gardens today and shot this with you in mind it's The Prioress bsically the same as the nun with more oompfff and it was'nt deflating like everything else was the heat and sun was merciless today.
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Thank you so much for the picture - it is so sweet of you to think about my question! :)

Yes indeed campanula, we seem to have similar tastes. :) I was also looking at Sophie's perpetual before, I've read good things about her and that pictures often do not do her justice.

I tried to grow The Nun last year. It's a beauty from the pictures I've seen of it. But for me, it was a weak plant, and it just never took off.

Jude is incredible though, and if you like the globular form, I'd highly recommend it. My favorite by far. It's not just beautiful, it's fragrance is out of this world. To my nose it's definitely got a lemony fragrance. Just wonderful in every way here.

too exciting - got my first bloom off Sophie today - i spotted it from a distance and elbowed my son off the path into a bramble in my haste to get there. (he is 31 though). Too too fabulous - the most perfectly rounded small flower, deepest rose paling in the centre, only 2.5 inches and so elegant. This year is thrilling for me as I have added 12 or so new roses - not a great number maybe, but many more than my usual one or two. So exciting, waiting to see a rose for the very first time.

A specimen of The Nun grew at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens for many years and was healthy and floriferous. I have ordered it several times and it has never lived. I really would like to have this rose. The nurseries seem to be gradually dropping it.

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Did you have it grafted or own root? I noticed that nurseries over here drop it as well, also I have read in a few places that DA considers both "The Nun" and "The Prioress" to be more collectors item and somewhat inferior. It's a pity though, there are not that many Austins with different type of bloom, other than a very full type.

They were own root. One didn't survive the winter. The others were basically dead on arrival from the nursery.

It is admittedly subtle, but so are franklinias and magnolias, which are connoisseur's plants. Maybe I am just drawn to the unobtainable. But if it thrived at BBG, why not in my back yard?

Maybe, if the others were dead on arrival, the remaining plant was also weak? This year I ordered roses from 8 different vendors (from 6 of them I haven't bought plants before, so was careful) and the difference is really visible, from some nurseries plants are lush and thriving, when from other sources they struggle.

Over here they sell it grafted, but also I heard an opinion that many older modern roses are less vigorous than what comes out of current breeding programs. Grafting may make a difference with slower growers.

Grafted may be the way to go on this one. But no one has it. That is the dilemma.

Yes indeed, although DA European shop still carries it, but probably not for long.

I planted a tiny cutting of The Nun last fall. It produced only 1 flower this spring, but it was so beautiful that visitors scrambled over the rocks to get a closer look. Can't wait till next year.

I had The Nun in CA and I have J du Pre growing now. JDP opens flat, but is very pretty nonetheless.

The Nun grew tall and narrow for me. The flowers did stay globular in shape, and in the CA sun were a very nice soft white color. Some in cooler climates have complained of the color. I think it might do best in a warm climate.

I have The Nun. It has not been vigorous for me, though there used to be a very nice specimen at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden rose garden that bloomed in shady area (I have shade).