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Looking For An Older Austin Rose - English Elegance
Comments (3)Hi Judith, I have a plant of English Elegance which isn't very developed as it's had to be held in a five gallon nursery can for a very long time. I can provide you with a few cuttings of it if you are proficient at rooting them. Kim...See MoreWhich David Austin (DA, english) roses last longest in a vase?
Comments (37)I have found the English Roses to be a disappointment as cut flowers. It isn't just the short vase life, a lot of them have weak stems too that can't hold the large blooms upright for flower arranging. I'm moving away from them because of these faults. There are a few exceptions. Of the David Austin roses that I've grown FAIR BIANCA (white) and EVELYN (apricot pink) did the best as cut flowers, but good luck finding them in commerce. The hybrid tea ROUGE ROYALE (red) looks like an Austin rose but does extremely well as a cut flower. I can get blooms that last a week in a vase. GOLDEN CELEBRATION (yellow) is great if you live in an area not plagued by black spot. To condition the vase water add a pinch of sugar and one or two drops of bleach. Don't forget to recut the stems under water in the sink and then immediately plunk the roses into the vase. If air gets into the stem then it will form a bubble, travel up the stem, and collapse the bloom. Not a big deal if you only want one or two days of vase life, but I grow roses as much for cut flowers as garden specimens....See Morewhat's your favorite David Austin / English rose?
Comments (20)It is important to remember that I live in Richmond / Vancouver BC. I can only talk about how the roses doing here in my garden, with my soil and our wet weather. I like the following roses for: strong growth, fragrance and colour. Favorites: Abraham Darby, Crown Princess Margaretta, Charlotte, Gertrude Jekyll, Golden Celebration, Jude The Obscure, Pat Austin, Summer Song, Sweet Juliet, Williams Shakepear 2000, Tamora Here is the list of my DA roses Abraham Darby - probably the healthiest Charlotte - pretty good Crown Princess Magaretta - pretty good Jude The Obscure - great fragrant Tamora - very pretty Golden Celebration - very strong growing, large flower Graham Thomas - strong growth but black spot somewhat in late summer Gertrude Jekyll - great rose Evelynn - A diva but when she behaves, she is beautiful and fragrant Mary Magdelene - Always performes, nice fresh fragrant Summer Song - Beautiful color, very healthy Pat Austin - Great color, wonderful fragrant LD Braith Wade - Beautiful flower, not much fragrant Winchester Cathedral - very strong growing, strong fragrant Falstaff - strong growth but defoliage. Very beautiful flowers. Very little fragrant in the sun The Dark Lady - large beautiful color, no fragrant William Shaepear 2000 - great rose with nice fragrant Mary Rose - strong growht, light fragrant Sweet Juliet - strong growth, nice fragrant New ones this year, I might be able to talk about them next summer :) Heritage Gentle Hermione Lady Emma Hamilton - the color is wonderful and the fragrance is out standing. But I have only got 3 flowers so far this year so ... :) Sharifa Asma Scepter Isle Teasing Georgia Generous Gardener...See MorePruning David Austin English roses? Japanese beetles?
Comments (3)Wait until spring to do any pruning because cutting them back now will trigger new succulent growth that could be damaged during freezes this winter. That said you may want to just let Abraham Darby be the short climber it wants to be by letting the long canes arch over (if you have the room) or tie them to a short trellis, although some people keep cutting it back to make it into a tall bush. Jude may throw out a long cane occasionally which you can cut back in the spring or summer. It is more likely to be happy as a bush than Abraham Darby. These are two of my favorite Austin roses, by the way. It may be that you have flower beetles rather than Japanese beetles. Both are a pain to have in the garden, but flower beetles are less of a pain I think. They are easier to control by hand picking and spraying the ground with beneficial nematodes in spring and summer to kill the grubs from which they hatch. After treatment with beneficial nematodes a couple of times I didn't have flower beetles (Euphoria sepulcralis, Fabricius) for years, but they turned up again last year so I treated again. You can google them to see what each beetle looks like. Here is the flower beetle on Prairie Sunrise last summer: Applying insecticides won't do much good for beetles, but unfortunately they will kill honey bees and other beneficial insects. You can buy beneficial nematodes at plant nurseries or on line. They will stay in the soil and do their jobs of killing a lot of unwanted insects that live in the soil like grubs, fleas and ants as long as the soil doesn't dry out. Here is a link that might be useful: How to Use Beneficial Nematodes...See MoreAdam Harbeck
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