2x Pat, 2 x Ws2000, 2 x Munstead Wood, 2 x Boscobel, 2x Darcey, 3 x Queen of Sweden. The first 2 is mostly love, the others is mainly that they work better in multiples (for me).

I have 4 of The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild (love the fragrance) and 3 of Geoff Hamilton (just to try to get more of these beautiful blooms). I love my pinks! I just got my first Jude, Abraham Darby and St. Swithun (hardening them off now) and ordered my first Munstead Wood a couple of days ago. Michaela, how many hours of sun a day does your Jude get?

6+ The Squire, 4+ Fair Bianca, 4x St. Cecilia, 3x Chaucer, 2x Scepter'd Isle, 2x Spirit of Freedom. Working on getting 2x Summer Song.

I have The Prince x2, Charlotte x2, and Cottage Rose x3. I got them all at the bargain area at Chamblees last spring for $2.50. They didn't bloom much last year but I am looking forward to my spring flush and will post some pics. I have one Tamora and one Molineaux and would get one more each if I could.

Pat Austin x2, Princess Alexandra of Kent x2, Teasing Georgia x2. I do have 2 Crown Princess Margareta but they aren't doing so great here.

The Alnwick Rose ×2, Sophy's Rose x2, Mollineaux x2 and Darcey Bussell x2. These roses do really well in North Texas with prolific blooms!

Darcey Bussell. Forget Munstead wood and get Darcey. She blooms everyday of the year

An accidental Redoute x2- number two was bought as a bare root Sharifa Asma, but as it has a branch that appears to be sporting back to Mary Rose... I do love Redoute tho, so I'm happy!

Love to see I'm not the only one who wants more than one of a rose!

towandaaz, wow 4! I will have to look Mr. Fairchild up, I'm not familiar with that DA. I have eyed Geoff Hamilton for some time. I love pinks too! Pinks and Apricots. My Jude only gets morning sun, which I wonder if that is why it's blooms stayed so apricot.

boncrow66, $2.50! You can't beat that price!

2 Evelyn , one i bought and one is a little red twig i stuck in the ground last fall that is starting to bud leaves. The first year I threw away all the pruned parts but from now on I will try to multiply my Jude and Abe too.

Pairs of The Endeavour & Golden Celebration grow happily in this garden. Golden Celebration is well known & widely grown. The Endeavour seems rather a dark horse out of the Austin stable, judging by how seldom it's mentioned on the forums, but I'm so enamored with this rose it's one of the few twins here apart from pairs of climbers. http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=50981&tab=36&qn=1&qc=0 

vasue that Endeavour is a gorgeous rose, I have not seen that one before.

Munstead Wood--2

Mary Magdalene--2

Redoute--3

Fair Bianca--2

Tranquillity--about 5

Darcy Bussell--2

Michaela, thanks for the tip on Jude.

I’m not exactly recommending Mr. Fairchild… lol.
It’s very gangly and prickly – though so many plants are prickly in Arizona. I’m sort of
used to it. I swear not a day goes by that I don’t get stuck or hung up by
something. It’s not uncommon to hear me in the garden yell out after being
stuck. Lol So it’s no big deal for me if a rose bush has thorns. I’ve mentioned
on this forum before that Mr. Fairchild’s fragrance is so gorgeous and the
blooms look similar to peony blooms. That’s what I love about it. I have one
mature bush and three little ones.

The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild:

Geoff Hamilton is so stingy with blooms and has that myrrh
fragrance that I don’t love, but the blooms are so beautiful. It’s also been a
very healthy plant for me with good-looking dark green foliage.

Geoff Hamilton:

Kippy and Vickysgarden, I just took at look at Darcey Bussel. Really nice. I love that
tight bloom form. Do you have any photos of yours?

My Darcey Bussel were new last summer, and I don't have any photos yet. I do have a photo of Munstead Wood, which so many like so much:

towandaaz, I love those blooms. It looks very much like a peony! I have a peony like that in my garden that the previous owner planted that looks similar. It is one of my favorites. That bloom was the size of my head.

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Vicky, your DB is gorgeous, especially next to that blue delphinium. I have several blue ones growing from seed right now, going to have to plant some of them next to a dark red rose this summer!

Michaela, I love my 1 PERDITA so much, I am adding 6 more as we speak (well in 2 weeks when they arrive from DAR). She is a beauty in a vase and on the bush, and lasts a long time! :) This is the last year they are offering it so I decided to grab many... Also, my CRESSIDA will be getting a sister or two this fall if she roots well. Her fragrance is the finest I have ever had the priviledge to inhale. I have 3 TEASING GEORGIA, because I gotta have her pretty face and fragrance. Thanks for doing this! Great information here!

Rebecca

Rebecca I haven't seen perdita but am looking her up now! I have always admired teasing Georgia on heirloom roses. Might have to bump that one up my wishlist. Maybe this thread was a bad idea for my wallet!!

Off the top of my head, I have duplicates of the following roses because David Austin roses goofed and sent me a double order of these and said to keep the duplicate way back when I started growing roses: The Alnwick Rose, Teasing Georgia, Queen of Sweden, and (formerly) William Shakespeare 2000. All of these I was pleased about, but the WS 2000s faded down to one in the first summer and that one has since died last year. I also received 2 of The Generous Gardener, and that's the one I chose to give away without knowing what it would be like. Good move, as my TGG is an unexciting rose for me and essentially a once-bloomer.

Since then, I have inadvertently ordered two of Potter and Moore from two places last year and we'll see how they do. I really want another Munstead Wood but haven't bought it yet, and I've ordered a second Benjamin Britten and Eglantyne because I think both of those roses I have as originals are mislabeled. My Eglantyne is red (not Dr. Huey, but OGR crimson form), and my Benjamin Britten is pale coral blush pink and tiny tiny tiny.

All in all, the one Austin that I'm most enthusiastic about duplicating is Munstead Wood and I haven't done that yet. On the flip side, I probably have around 75 Austins and many of the medium pink ones are almost as if they're duplicates of each other.

Cynthia

Michaela, Here's the reason I love Perdita...

Cynthia, I agree with you, so many of the pink Austins look the same to me.

Rebecca

Two Charles Darwins because I have no yellow roses in my garden and two Bishop's Castle because of beauty and fragrance of the flowers and resistance to heat (to some extent anyway).

Carding Mill and Abe Darby - but love them all.

Rebecca- how hardy are perdita and Cressida for you? Cynthia- do you still grow nahema? I see it is listed to zone 4 on Angel Gardens website but someone said they lost it in zone 7. Am I crazy to try to grow this one in mn zone 4?

Thanks!!

Kelly - I had Nahema for about 4 years and it was cane hardy for me in zone 5. I did lose it last year for reasons I haven't figured out, but I'm replacing it this year. You're not crazy to try it in zone 4, but it's probably a little touchy about zone 4 winters and might be one I'd try a little winter protection for some of the canes, like setting the filled leaf bags around the base of the rose just in case. It's a gorgeous rose.

Ah Alameda, that reminded me - I have two of Carding Mill too from the same DA shipping error, but I'm glad as this is an excellent Austin for me.

Cynthia

I have two of two - Leander and Gertrude Jeckyll

Kelly they both winter kill to the ground every year planted 6" away from the house. This year I am planted grafted Perdita away from the foundation. Available from DAR this year only!

Rebecca

I have 8 Mary Rose, 8 Tranquillity, 3 Pilgrim, 2 Carding Mill, 2 Queen of Sweden, 2 Alnwick in the garden.

I grow Nahema in a pot in zone 6a (just got it last Sat), my friend's friend lost his in zone 7 (NC) this year.

Summer, would you please tell me how Pilgrim behaves for you? Is the color lemon yellow in the middle like pictures usually show or is it a more subdued vanilla tone? Colors on monitors can be so deceiving. Does it have tons of thorns, or just average? Is it so wonderful that you want to sink your face into it's petals and inhale for a long time? :) I want to plant it by my vegetable garden. I will be passing close by it daily. Thanks for the help!!

Rebecca

Rebecca, I bought them last year from Wayside Gardens bargain sale, I haven't seen any blooms yet, I will report back after the spring blooms. 27F tonight, not sure if the spring is coming. I will check on the throns for you tomorrow after work, I don't remember anything at this moment, half way to the dreamland....... :-) it's time to dream about roses.

Don't show this to Ingrid..

Kippy that is GORGEOUS.

I have two Queen of Sweden roses only because the first one I bought was rotted below the graft and I wasn't sure whether it would make it. It did after sitting doing nothing for many months. I still can't get over the perfection of the blooms.

Kippy!!! OH MY!!!!!!!

I have 2 x Abraham Derby, 2 x Golden Celebration (unfortunately they both suffer badly from black spot in my garden), 2 x Sharifa Asma, 3 x Desdemona (purchased bare root a few weeks ago and currently in pots waiting for me to dig their permanent homes, 7 x St. Swithun (I bought one as a climber in 2012 and, when I cut it back two years ago I tried my hand at taking cuttings of some of the pruned wood - about 20 cuttings all grew). I gave away most of them but kept 6, which I'm growing as shrubs - so far, so good. I also have more than 100 Queen of Sweden, which I grow as a hedge around the lawn. Fortunately, the Queen of Sweden is very healthy and trouble free for me and I do love her flowers, which also last well as a cut flower and look great when they go in a vase with English lavender. I think that in future I'm going to concentrate more on old Tea Roses as they seem to be much more disease free for me and, thankfully, don't need pruning.

Evelyn, Eglantyne, The Alnwick Rose, Geoff Hamilton, Sharifa Asma, The Generous Gardener.

The Alnwick Rose

Geoff Hamilton

Krista, would you please tell me if the Generous Gardener is a good bloomer in zone 5?

Rebecca

My Generous Gardeners are two years old. They are hardy and beautiful. There was some repeat bloom last summer. I think they will repeat more when they are mature.

Thank you, Krista!!

Well, this is a little embarrassing, but as a preface, I have several areas I have large groupings of for landscape effect, and a couple areas I treat as a cutting garden...

Abraham Darby-4

Queen of Sweden-13

Lady of Shallott- 7

Munstead Wood -6

Golden Celebration -6

Graham Thomas-2

Carding Mill -5

Darcy Bussell -3

jude the Obscure-2

Sceptre d'Isle-2

Benjamin Britten -2

Molineux- 8

Claire Austin -3

A Shropsrire Lad-3

im sure I'm forgetting something...but I would say if I picked one I would hands down have more of --as far as DA is concerned-- it would be Crown Princess Margareta. I have her on a trellis and absolutely love, love, love her. I also adore Abraham Darby.

Since this is a DA list, I will embarrass myself no further, lol!

Adrianne

Embarrassing? More like AMAZING. Please share pictures if you have them Adrianne!

I want to see pictures too! I love Benjamin Britten (x3) but he really struggles here... I have 3 golden celebrations, 2 Darcy Bucell- really under rated for the north! 2 princess Alexandra of kent- most dieback, 2 lady of shalott, 2 Abe darby, 2 alnwick, 2 windemere, 2 charlotte, 2 Jubilee celebration. ..