My new Austins - summer blooms [image heavy]

15 years ago

It's been a busy summer, but I finally got around to going thru some of my photos I've been taking of my roses this summer. We moved so I started with mostly all new Austins this year except for a few old ones I was able to bring with me.

So the exciting thing is I got to try a few new varieties this year along with some old favorites.

Alnwick Rose

This rose is a new one for me. I'm going to use it as a hedge, the flower shape the DA catalog attracted me to try it out. I love the blooms although they don't seem to last long.

Carding Mill

This one is a cutting taken from my old plant that was too large to move with me. It's put out a few large blooms this year.

Charles Renne Mackintosh

This own root plant has really come into it's own this year, burst of bloom after bloom even though it's got some bugs that mess up a lot of the buds. Still a small plant, but the cut flowers look really nice.

Jude the Obscure

One of my favorites, so I just had to pick up one this year since the old one is firmly in the ground. Amazing scent as always.

Lady Emma Hamilton

This one looked pretty nice with an unusual color, so I order one. Received one of the most sad looking bare root plants in the order. 2 medium sized canes in this tiny tiny plant I figured it would need special care. It's still hanging in there.

Mortimer Sackler

A new climber, it's a bit thing and scraggly, but hopefully it'll put forth some new shoots. It has very simple pink flowers.

I'm not quite sure if this is a photo of Mortimer, I think it is though

Crown Princess Margeretta

Not sure if I spelled the name correctly. I bought 2 of these, one from DA, one from a local nursery. Going to set them up to climb a trellis. The blooms look awesome in size and form, scent is okay, I can't really remember it. Plant has been a bit slow growing so far.

Scepter'd Isle

My wife really wanted this one, she loves the organized shape of the flowers. Turns out it's the same plant that I had received several years ago when I ordered the Generous Gardener. I had thought they had misgrafted Heritage, but it looks like the old GG's were Scepter'd Isle. So not a new bloom to me, but still, they're very pretty. Horrible as cut flowers though. Like the one I already had, it seems to love throwing out huge tall canes. Started out as a relatively small bare root.

Sharifa Asma

I order this one as an own root 2 years ago from Chamblees. It died, so I had to get another when the chance arose. Amazing scent, huge blooms. Unfortunately another really sad bare root on arrival. Tiny, tiny with 2 tiny canes and a little twig. Doing okay now, but prone to powdery mildew.

Tamora

Reviews said the scent is really nice. I forget now if it's anything special. Colors are pretty, but it looks a bit too much like a hybrid tea rose for my tastes. Still, doing well, new for me this year.

Windermere

This nursery only exclusive from DA is interesting. Not available on the DA site, I picked this one up locally. I figured it might be a weak one or something, but it looked like it might be pretty and met the short bush in a pot requirements I was looking for. Was plagued by blackspot initially and a bit lanky, but has really started to establish itself lately. I just took this photo today and the blooms are large and have a nice fruity scent. It's earlier blooms were virtually scentless.

Hydrangeas make excellent cut flowers that go nicely w/ roses.

And of course as usual, Austins make very nice bouquets.

I still have a lot more photos buried somewhere that I will have to dig up. Including Teasing Georgia, Golden Celebration, Graham Thomas, Ambridge Rose, The Generous Gardener, and one I can't remember the name of. I have 3 of that one I can't remember the name of though, since I once again tried to order Generous Gardener, but once again they did not have any. Instead, for a substitute they sent me 3 of this huge monster plant that I guess no one must order, because the bareroots were HUGE and looked 4-5 years old. A nice consolation to the other sad little bare roots I received though. I'll see if I can find photos of those too. Interesting flower, a bit boring pink, and not my most favorite scent - mryhh.

Hope everyone enjoys the photos and finds something new to purchase for next season!

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Comments (18)

bloodyfrancois
15 years ago
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I like the way you wrote about your roses. Thank you very much, the pictures are so wonderful.
carla17
15 years ago
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I love Austins and yours are so beautiful. Lovely photos too.
Carding Mill has such a nice color, and your LEH looks heads above mine in color. Thank you for sharing.

Carla
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ramblinrosez7b
15 years ago
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Very pretty roses and the photos of them are excellent! Thanks for sharing all these beauties with us.
kathy9norcal
15 years ago
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Great post and lovely roses! Can't wait to see your other photos.
Kathy
BecR
15 years ago
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Lovely roses and a gorgeous plonk!! brings a smile to my face. :) Becky
jumbojimmy
15 years ago
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omg! Those photos are so beautiful!

I'm bookmarking this page so that I can come back to it when times are low for me.
londonblue
Original Author
15 years ago
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I'm glad everyone enjoys the photos. i love Austins, and looking at photos of them, sniffing them and growing them!

I stumbled across some old roses photos from last year also:

Sweet Juliet
ah, sweet and fruity is her scent. But naughty. She started throwing out nothing but canes and leaves for the past 2 years so this spring I pruned her back hard, and was rewarded with a bush full of blooms.

The Mary Rose
Always a great performer, grows pretty well, not high maintenence at all, but loves blackspot.

Carding Mill
Great performer even in it's second year, or was it first. Beautiful blooms from bud to bust. One of the few Austins that doesn't drop all its petals as the blooms finish.

This year I over-dosed it with aluminum sulfide and it turned super blur, last year it was purply:

Roses from this year, still can't seem to find some images although I did figure out the 3 climbers I got were St Swithun.

Abraham Darby
Purchased at Costco as a bare root 2 years ago, it's gone crazy with blooms this year. The only problem is that it throws out thin langly canes that cannot support the huge blooms at all. The blooms are lovely and large with a fruity scent, but the plant looks like a dead octopus on a diet. Not sure if I should prune it back, or train it on a trellis.

Windermere
I didn't have high expectations for this nursery only variety, but it's really beginnig to grow on me. Blooms are finally starting to have some scent, with some shape and the leaves are nice and green instead of their sick yellow. I did give it some fish emulsion after the first bloom.

Mortimer Sackler

Graham Thomas
Purchased as a small own root plant, finally doing well, and throwing out huge canes, but unfortunately, they all seem to come out of this one main cane that grows at a funny angle. The drawbacks of own-root I suppose.

Geoff Hamilton/Charles Mackitosh affliction
Finally, could anyone help me identify what this is, a bug or some other rose disease. I think based on my research that it might be thrips, but I'm not completely sure. It afflicted this one Austin that came into my care after having spotty waterings and other hot weather stress. It's mostly gone away now, but I did prune the rose back hard to try to clean off whatever it was. It also affects my Charles Renne Makintosh to a lesser degree, usually I cut off and trash the entire bud about an inch under the wilted area - not sure if that is an effective procedure.

thanks for looking and any tips on the solutions to the above!
jumbojimmy
15 years ago
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Sweet Juliet looks better than I have thought.

Could you post a whole bush form of Sweet Juliet, just to get an idea of its growth habbit.

Thanks in advance.
Prettypetals_GA_7-8
15 years ago
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WOW!!! They are all gorgeous roses. I luuuuuuuuuuuv english roses. I have added tons this year and some have taken off great but have thrown out those long canes so going to prune pretty hard this spring. The worst two were Wild Eve (perfect name) and Teasing Georgia. Hope my Mary Rose gets as bushy as yours. You definitely have a "green thumb". Thanks, Judy
the_bustopher z6 MO
15 years ago
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You have some nice pictures. I have some of the ones you have here. I have Winchester Cathedral, the white Mary Rose. It also likes blackspot, but it blooms on and off all summer. I have Sweet Juliet. It wants to throw long canes regardless of how I prune it, and it doesn't bloom much at all. It is pretty and fragrant when it does, but it doesn't bloom enough to guarantee its continued spot in the bed. The Lady Emma Hamilton looks like mine. At least that is encouraging. Your Carding Mill pictures are inspiring. I ordered one for next year since I like the apricots and oranges.
hoovb zone 9 sunset 23
15 years ago
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Beautiful pictures--thank you for posting them all. Austins are my favorites--they are so photogenic.

'Windermere' is already hitting 5'+ here: so much for "compact" growth. J&P was selling it.

As 'Abe Darby' matures it gets much stronger canes, thought they tend to grow out instead of up.

I get those toasted buds also--though less and less often--I thought it was just the heat.
aprilscott12
15 years ago
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whoo wee. Those are gorgeous! I just started with some english ones this year and I just LOVE the flower form. I have a few that want to be unruly but I'm hoping I can tame them over time. Thanks for sharing your beautiful pictures! April
londonblue
Original Author
15 years ago
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hoovb - My windermere is getting pretty large as well, still a nice bush form, but I'm wondering about it's 3ft height I thought I had read about. It's preparing to give a full flush soon so I'm pretty excited.

Yeah, I'm not sure about the toasted buds, but it only happens to that plant even though the others are fine. Also that Geoff Hamilton had some white thing bugs on it for a while, which I thought might be spider mites but I'm not certain.

jumbojimmy - I'll try to get you some photos of Sweet Juliet in bush form, I know I have some old ones hidden away somewhere.

Some more Austins I took photos of yesterday:

Teasing Georgia
I knew this was the fence climber I wanted when I saw it in the Austin catalog and checked out the photos of it on helpmefind. Lovely scent, seems to be very robust and doing well.

Ambridge Rose
This one has done really well since I transplanted it into a pot after a miserable first year in the ground. 5 years old now I believe. The only problem it has is the blooms tend to be much larger than it's thing narrow stems can support. Not my favorite scent, but does very well as cut flowers.
moodyblue
15 years ago
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Oh my, What a collection of gorgeous photographs. Taken at perfect moments.............the actual roses played a big part in it too. :)
All so beautiful, thank you so much for sharing.
Pauline - Vancouver Island
jumbojimmy
15 years ago
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That would be great londonblue. Looking forward to seeing them. I love the name sweetjuliet but I don't know whether it's worth growing. I also love peach/apricot roses - not yellow/apricot roses. Hopefully SJ is more of a peach/apricot instead of yellow/apricot.
aswhad
15 years ago
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thanks for the show :-)
5400jana
15 years ago
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Such beauties! Thanky you very much!
Prettypetals_GA_7-8
15 years ago
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LUUUUUUUV all your babies!!!! Keep them coming. Judy