Lilian Austin

Teasing Georgia

Abe Darby

Lichfield Angel..truly an angel here..blooms non stop. Nice leaves too. Starts out kinda cup shaped light apricot then opens up and fades to creamy white. Sometimes her blooms are fluffy and quartered. Not this one though, lol.

Princess Anne

Olivia Austin Rose

Queen of Sweden

Royal Jubilee

Your photos are beautiful, none of my Austins (5) are in bloom yet, buds yes, blooms no. The only roses that are just starting to bloom are Julia Child, Cl Pinkie, Moje Hammarberg & Penelope. It will be another month or so before we're in full swing. Again, beautiful roses.

Jane

I planted a bunch of new Austins over the winter. Right now Molineux, Christopher Marlowe, Munstead Wood and Graham Thomas are blooming. Lady of Shalott has lots of buds. I will try to get some pictures later. One Munstead bloom looked like a Camelia.

Haku, I love all your fabulous pics, especially Royal Jubilee! Is that one a good repeat bloomer? How big does it get for you? Is that a metal headboard for a bed in your second photo? Stunning!

Hi, Jane, your roses sound beautiful. I have been wanting Julia Child. I also have a Penelope given to me as a cutting last year. It hasn't bloomed yet. I can't wait! I will look forward to seeing yours!

Buford, it sounds like we have some of the same Austins! Munstead Wood is such a good rose and seems to do well in so many different climates. One of the best fragrances of all mine lol. I would love to see a camelia like bloom. I hope mine gets those! I dont have Grahm Thomas but it is on my list. I like most all yellow roses. I got Golden Celebration on its own root as a band and it seems to be growing slowly. Its bloomed a few times and I love the fragrance.

A few more from this morning. Sorry if these arent the greatest pics. I use my camera phone.

Princess Alexandra of Kent. Shes a fluffy thing.

Teasing Georgia whole bush. She had tons of buds. I have 2 of these and I need to get her trellised up because she is sprawling everywhere. I just wanted to show how great her foliage stays in my no spray humid FL garden. Even laying on the ground lol. The best 4 Austins for nice green foliage and prolific flowers in my garden are Teasing Georgia, LoS, Lichfield Angel, and Pat Austin..those 4 almost never get BS or anything else.

Sultryjasmine, teasing Georgia is one of my favorite roses!! Mine also is a sprawler but for now I'm leaving it to take over the world ;)

my queen of Sweden

Lily that is a beautiful swing trellis! I need a few of those in my yard lol. Is it Queen of Sweden on the side of the trellis? She is a lovely rose. Im glad Im not the only one to leave TG to sprawl lol. Yours looks so healthy! This is my first big flush for TG. Does yors repeat often?

I just couldnt resist posting this pic of 2 Pat Austins because I noticed there is the cutest little tree frog hiding in one..maybe posing as a leaf! This is the reason I dont spray here. I love these little guys.

Sultryjasmine.. Thank you :) Royal Jubilee is new for me this year.. its been in the ground for 4 months and yes the repeat is good.. its still very young and small. Yup thats a headboard I had in my shed lol... I was going to throw it away but decided to use it in the garden. I was going to let morning glory climb on it, but changed my mind.... below is a bush shot of my Royal Jubilee

Gertrude Jekyll

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (nursed back to life was near dead when i got it on sale)

Pat Austin, this was its first bloom this year and was hanging on the bottom so I plucked it off. I actually really like the way they look nodding on the bush but haven't gotten any good pictures of it this year.

Generous Gardener is just starting to open.

QoS glowing in the sunrise this morning.

I love your GC, Buford. I hope mine gets to look that gorgeous.

Nothing spectacular yet, though Munstead Wood is about ready to burst into bloom, but here are a couple of the first tentative blooms on a few of my Austins.

The Wedgewood climber--very floriferous, but just a few blooms so far.

First bloom on Molineux who looks so charming next to purple salvia.

First bloom on Queen of Sweden (I have 3 plants)--looking cool next to purple iris.

Scepter'd Isle should be opening soon, also Lady of Shalott. Have a brand new Olivia Austin that is no where near blooming yet, but I'm really looking forward to her first blooms.

I need to check a couple others--they may be opening today--if I have enough time to do some picture-taking.

Enjoyed all your beautiful Austins up above. They are wonderful!

Kate

Graham Thomas & friend:

Jackie

Abe Darby tamer yesterday, lassoed today

chavalegh, I had it in a bad spot and transplanted it last year. If you give it a lot of sun, it will get big.

Mudpie, I love your lassoed Abe. Diane

Buford, OOOOHHH I pray my GC looks like that someday. I probably need to just get a grafted one. I don't know why my own root is so fussy plus it does get black spot. Maybe it just likes to be nakey lol ! WS 2000 is at the top of my list. How big does your get?

Haku, Looks like you have done well with your Tess. I have a little Tess from a band last year. It is doing well for an own root Austin here. I probably need to put it in a larger pot and find it something to climb on because its still in a 3 gallon lol.

Chavaleh, Love your Generous Gardener photo. I don't seem that one posted near enough either. How large does it get. Its a climber right?

mudpie, lol @ lassoing Abe. That's how I feel about Evelyn. I have her espaliered on a wire fence and sometimes the blooms kinda flop down, so I try and stick them resting on the wire and then they fall back down again grr.

Kate, I'm so jealous of your Iris. I used to grow those in a cooler climate but they do poorly for me here, for some reason. The Wedgewood is a beauty! Is it fragrant?

Jackie, Those colors are fantasic!! I must find some Clematis that would like it in Florida. I have a lot of purple colored passiflora but I think they would try to strangle the roses lol.

It hit 90 F today here. I still need to get out and water stuff so I didn't take any photos yet today lol.

~SJN

Ah, all this enabling when I have yet to have a rose bloom. I love all your pictures! So nice to see the Austins in gardens to get a feel for the real colors. Jackie, your Clematis with Golden Celebration is perfection!

sultry_jasmine_night: Yes, it's a climber. This is only it's second year with me and for the first 3/4 of last year it stayed tiny. Now it has completely covered the 5' ish by 3'ish trellis I put him on. I may have to work something new out. Not sure how large it will get here, I'm in Ga. Probably much higher than I expected when I bought it (I believed the labels and didn't realize they were region specific, haha).

I have some more blooms that just opened...

Graham Thomas, the best yellow IMO.

Lady of Shalott

Molineux

Carding Mill

If anyone has bush shots of their Darcy Bussell I'd appreciate you posting them. I just planted 8 in a long bed. According to the Austin site they only get 3' tall but I'm wonder if in my zone they might get taller than that.

I just planted mine and it's still tiny.

Sultry - thank you for the compliment ! My dh surprised me with the pergola and I just love it . I need to buy another teasing Georgia for the other side of the swing . Growing up the side of the pergola is Renae , it's gorgeous . Anyway ! TG blooms a good 4 or so flushes for me last year. It was new last spring !

I love your little tree frog ! Soo cute !

And I love all the pics on this thread ! Gorgeous !!

this is the generous gardener I believe .( or lady gardener ?)The bush is a little rough looking but the flower is wonderful !

The only Austin that I have in bloom that even looks like a rose is Princess Alexandra of Kent. I really like this rose.

Here are a few photos from the last week or two..

Munstead Wood & clematis

Heritage with lots of buds

Golden Celebration, flopping. I have to practically lay on the ground to photograph it! SO pretty though. If anyone has any tips to help with his posture, I would love to hear them!

Beautiful little Charlotte

Baby Carding Mill

Little Darcy Bussell

Lady of Shallot & clematis

Young Lycidas, dripping

Pat Austin

Jessica

I can't get over the beauty of these plantings. Such imagination in the combinations. Regarding the golden Celebration flop-over, I just read some great info on fertilizing to help this problem in this recent post: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/1675191/golden-celebration-growing-against-a-wall-advice?n=52

I use the green double peony supports to help hold mine up!! Of course I am in zone 4 so my plants don't get as tall...tomato cages also could help....

I'm looking at getting a Munstead Wood for a spot just above a trio of crimson mini roses. It looks spectacular! It does look like it might get a bit large for my spot though.

My two David Austins are brand new and freshly planted, so I doubt I'll get blooms this year. The collection of mismatched and unidentified roses I inherited with my house are starting to bloom though, as are the mini roses I rescued from the grocery store plant hospital.

You might get blooms, The new DAs i bought all put out at least a few the first year, and there is plenty of time over the summer. Just got a few more last month; little Jude the Obscure looks too small to hold up the 4 buds that are forming. Two glorious flowers on baby Abe Darby came and went. now the pretty new leaves are growing. I'm sold on Austins.
I want Munstead Wood too but want it to be own root. A local nursery has one from last year if i can high tail it over there, I bet it's gone.

I just took these pictures today!

Port Sunlight

Darcey Bussell

Oh, blooms would be nice. Now I'm going to be checking my plants and hoping for buds.

I thought you could order own root roses direct from the David Austin website? What's the advantage of own root?

Munstead Wood

Sister Elizabeth

Emily

Pretty Jessica

Brother Cadfael

Another of the Brother as he is just so gorgeous! Scent to die for.

Lady of Shalott after a heavy rain.

Sorry, no pictures of Princess Alex of Kent (just didn't have the time to take them this year), Alnwick nor Mary Magdalene.

Everyones photos are so beautiful. I just got a few new Austins hopefully they will be flowering soon.

Took this one of Lady Shalott this morning.

Christopher Marlowe

Carding Mill

Munstead Wood

Graham Thomas

This one was supposed to be Boscobel. I believe it is an Austin, but have no idea what it is... maybe Pat Austin... although, from what I have read, it would have fainted in the 91 degree temperature we had today.

Here's the unknown Austin..

These bloomed this month:

Huntington =Rose

Carding Mill

Golden Celebration.. day of the O.P.

PAoK

WS2000... New this year. The blooms have varied per cycle.

Olivia Austin is in bloom but my timing is horrible. I have not been able to capture a fresh bloom.

Lynn