Looking forward to new David Austin's roses
bayarea_girl_z10a_ca
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Photos and descriptions are from David Austin's website. I posted them here for easy viewing.
Sorry for being a rose enabler. I know I have no space left but I'm sure I'll find rooms for a few special ones. Helen :)
OLIVIA ROSE AUSTIN
- An excellent plant all round with fragrant rosette blooms (3.5ft H, 3ft W)
- Shallowly cupped, soft pink rosettes. Strong, pleasing, fruity fragrance. Vigorous growth and repeat flowers well. Exceptionally healthy.
- Good for disease resistance
- Repeat Flowering
- Highly Fragrant
- Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
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bayarea_girl_z10a_ca
8 years agoDESDEMONA
- Exquisitely beautiful with an exceptionally long flowering season (4ft H, 3ft W)- White, chalice-shaped blooms with a hint of pink. Strong and very healthy with broad, open growth. Intense myrrh fragrance.
- Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
bayarea_girl_z10a_ca
8 years agoTHE ANCIENT MARINER
- Large and extremely floriferous, creating a dramatic display (5ft H, 3ft W)- Masses of many petalled, glowing pink blooms with a strong, warm myrrh scent. Forms a very healthy and vigorous, larger than average shrub.
- Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
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Looking for the best David Austin roses for the South (SC)
Comments (11)Linrose, you should try grafted Austins - get them from DA (on Dr Huey). I've grown a ton of Austins over the years and had only one that failed - it never made out of dormancy: Trevor Griffiths. All the others, most of them grafted, some own root, have done extremely well. They all need a good and regular amount of food (and water in hot and dry conditions) to perform at their best. I also always amended the planting holes thoroughly since we had heavy clay soil in NC. The main problem for all roses in the US Southeast, even more so the coastal Southeast, is blackspot. Even my teas and noisettes suffered from it if I didn't spray fairly regularly. Bourbons, HPs, HTs, floribundas, all got it without protection. To the original poster. If you're willing to spray (and amend the soil, if needed, and fertilize, of course), you should be able to grow any rose without sacrificing anything in the looks department. If you don't want to spray and don't want roses to defoliate from BS you should probably be a bit more picky. You could also try some Romanticas - a friend of mine in coastal NC thinks very highly of them. There's one Austin you should stay away from unless you're willing to spray religiously, and that's Tamora. Mine were very beautiful and great bloomers, but they would completely defoliate when not sprayed (although they were vigorous enough to grow back their leaves rather quickly). The Austins that did especially well for me when I lived in NC (which of course is not the same as coastal SC) were the following: William Shakespeare 2000 (a must) Sharifa Asma (a must) Heritage Molineux Pat Austin (a must, but blooms can wilt in strong afternoon sun) Abraham Darby Crocus Rose The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild Golden Celebration (a must) Fair Bianca Radio Times Portmeirion Jubilee Celebration Sophy's Rose Jude the Obscure Christopher Marlowe Teasing Georgia (needs to time to develop good rebloom, but is absolutely stunning when in full bloom) William Morris James Galway (totally BS and PM free even without spray, very beautiful, but very slow rebloom) The Prince (not a very strong plant, but a good bloomer with terrific scent) Extremely beautiful is also Crown Princess Margareta, but if not sprayed relatively regularly she'll catch BS if she's in a moist location. We live in southeast England now (Cambridge), and interestingly enough, the roses I grow here, Austins and others, perform very similarly compared to ones I had in NC. Among those I find also excellent are: Lady of Megginch The Prilgrim Lady Emma Hamilton (a must, and although it will catch BS without any spray, it does not at all defoliate here) Claire Austin (very healthy, always in bloom even in its first year) Prospero (stays small, but blooms all the time) Summer Song is a beauty of most unusual color with a fantastic banana scent, but its rebloom is a bit slow and it's not that BS resistant. Young Lycidas also looks promising in terms of performance (and is very beautiful and heavily scented), but it's a brand new rose which I got last summer before its official release in the fall, and it's still too early to really tell. Anyway, I hope this helps a little. Andrea...See MoreChamblee Roses has added new David Austin roses
Comments (7)I bought The Prince, Tradescant, GC, GST, Charlotte, Ambridge Rose, Winchester Cathedral, Glamis Castle (before reading all the bad reviews on HMF), Molineux--I realize now that I only bought nine, so maybe I'm not so bad after all. I had only meant to pick up Golden Celebration and Molineux, but one thing led to another. I used to go by Chamblees and pick up roses when I still had family in that part of Texas. It was fun to be able to pick out the roses on-site and the roses were so much more affordable and substantial than ordering from elsewhere online. They used to carry far more old roses, including bourbons and some HPs, essentially the same ones as Antique R, Emporium. I suppose it made sense to streamline their product assortment. Later on I would buy more from other nurseries with more selection, but it was at Chamblees and ARE that I first really got hooked....See MoreWho am I? Looks like a David Austin or another English rose!
Comments (29)I have 5 abe Darby's & 3 tamoras they both have great scent - your rose looks like Darby to me !! The colors can vary depending on weather when it comes to Darby. In winter my blooms have strong apricot, peachy yellow & pink but in summer it's very pink. Tamora can also vary in color due to weather. When I saw your pics- Darby was first rose that came to mind. I'm a David Austin rose freak - I have around 20 different austins, plus a few extras of my favorite Austin bushes but I'm not counting those. Tamora is a great rose also, the scent reminds me of starburst :) yum but here in class the bush isn't the most vigorous grower- Both are susceptible to black spot in my garden. Darby however is extremely vigorous. I've noticed on my Darby, the blooms can vary greatly, some are so packed with petals & others not so much ( prob Bc of the heat!) i just dead headed all of mine otherwise I would post pics :( sorry but Good luck!! :)...See MoreTHIS is why I order Austin roses from David Austin Roses.
Comments (32)Rebecca- your roses are gorgeous but so much work. I live in Massachusetts. It is so difficult to even dig a hole 10 inches deep with all the rock, boulders and ledge so I try to buy only own root roses. I have gotten some wonderful own root roses from DA and have some more scheduled for delivery next week. I hope they add more own root to their collections. I recently ordered 'Queen of Sweden' and 'Windermere' which is by far my healthiest DA rose and covers herself with delicate soft blush pink blooms from early summer till fall. She is cane hardy in my Z5b-6a garden. The only negative is lack of the "to die for" strong perfume scent that Austins are so known for. sharon...See Morebayarea_girl_z10a_ca
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- Combines charm and fragrance with exceptional health and robustness (3ft H, 2.5ft W)- Pretty, little, rich pink rosettes with a strong Old Rose fragrance. Short, bushy growth. Tough and hardy, thriving in difficult conditions.
- Sub Type: Old Rose/Scottish Rose
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