Anyone in inland SoCal grow Crown Princess Margareta and Carding Mill
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Comments (53)I'll throw in my 2 cents worth on these also. Lady Emma Hamilton, as previously mentioned, has a good color, nice fragrance, and does not get overly large. It does tend to sprawl sideways. It doesn't have lots of flowers all at once here, but it does have a fairly steady trickle. I wouldn't mind having several of these, space permitting. My Lady of Shalott is on its second year. It bloomed fairly well up until late summer/early fall, and then it quit. It did not have any later in fall flowers. It is now quite busy blooming its head off with flowers that are similar in color to Pat Austin, but they are less sensitive to the heat. I think this rose will also get quite large given the opportunity. It is a nice one. My Munstead Wood is currently blooming with dark, wine-red flowers that exude a powerful fragrance. The bush will throw some long canes, but mine have been flopping over sideways almost to the ground. Whether that is indicative of anything I can't say, but it will need some corrective pruning. We have had a very mild winter this past year, and everything is blooming about a month early. The result is more intense colors because the sun is not as intense as it would normally be. So, Munstead, along with many of the rest of the plants in my garden blooming now, has extra dark color. It is similar the The Prince at the moment. Of these two, I like Munstead Wood better because it doesn't burn as badly in high heat as The Prince does. Repeat bloom is quite good and reliable here. Port Sunlight is another story. This year it seems to be doing better. I think it is its at least 3d year. The flowers are a little larger now, maybe about 3 inches. The color is a good apricot color, and there is some fragrance. I like the color, but I would have thought the flowers would have been larger judging from the pictures of it that were on DA's website when it was shown at the Chelsea Flower Show when it was being introduced. For me, it has been not much bigger than a mini-flora rose up until now. The plant has not gotten very large either considering how large it was getting in the pot it was in before I stuck it in the ground. Finally, The Shepherdess is a nice, pale apricot rose also. I am hoping that it will survive its transplanting back to a pot for a while until the bed area it was in gets redone and the city gets done with its project there also. The Shepherdess is pretty, and it seems to have a restrained growth habit, at least in comparison to some of the others. I hope my comments are helpful....See MoreAustins that have done well for me.
Comments (28)Austins that have done very well for me. All are hardy need to be sprayed once/month for BS: Mary Rose Winchester Cathedral Heritage Crocus rose James Galway The Squire - mines about 10 yrs old but is starting to poop out. I think I'll either have to but or make another one Abe Darby - I really like the color but should be sprayed for BS more frequently, but I won't and it still does well enough. Fair Bianca did well, I think. I chose not to grow it when we moved. Whites are hit and miss for me. On most the flowers seem to turn brown in hot weather. I think they're a little prone to thrips, those are best viewed from afar. Roses I have shovel pruned: The Dark Lady - I tried this for about 6 years but it was a BS magnet and the red turned to magenta, and very thorny. Jude the Obscure - I tried real hard to like this rose, about 10 yrs. I liked the color but it was a sparse bloomer and got too much BS. Lillian Austin - nice rose but was a BS magnet and very thorny. Brother Cadfael - similar to Jude. Golden Celebration - An octopus, thorny, flowers can-t survive a thunderstorm, a BS magnet, didn't have much of a second flush, and I'm not really fond of butter cup colored roses. I give most roses four years, but this one was gone in 3....See MoreAustin Sizes in So Cal/Compact, Front of the Border Austins
Comments (23)Hello all! We got a chance to make it out to Otto and Sons today (just missing the sale unfortunately). We took a look at quite a few roses new to both of us and ended up generally going in a different direction from Austins. The Austin test bed there afforded my mom a chance to see Munstead Wood blooming in person which was very elucidating. She liked it, but didn't love it like the photos of it she had seen. She would probably still like to try it, but not enough to get several. We did get several Rose de Rescht to try however. The scent and color was very nice in person, and the shrubs looked quite nice. We also picked up a Distant Drums which is one of her favorites. I really did know it when I saw it from a distance! There were almost too many interesting things! We nearly got a Rosa Viridiflora, Rosa Rubrifolia/Glauca, Lady of Shallot, and George Burns. The one Austin we did get that most impressed my mother in person was an Ambridge Rose. I know some have reported rust, but neither I nor my mom recall ever seeing it on even the most neglected of roses that we've tried. You have to take some chances in the long run, so this will be one. Queen of Sweeden was a close second for those who had mentioned it. Much more apricot in person than most photos suggested. It may have just been the one left was not the best shrub, but Sharifa Asma didn't catch my mom's eye. It was a nice plus to add a new OGR cultivar to the ranks of the couple of true Teas, one HP, and a few older Polyanthas present (not true OGRs I know). Thanks for all of your input! Jay...See MoreWhich Austin English roses do I NEED to add next season?
Comments (84)Thanks Kate--I guess I've been very much on the fence about whether they'll tolerate the cold here, will just have to see I think. The flowers look so gorgeous I think I have to try anyway, so I was going to put in 4-5 and see. I'm essentially zone 6 in the backyard, so maybe I'll have success with them if you have. Do you winter protect? My neighbor did lose some HTs from year to year but he planted the bud union above ground and didn't winter protect. My Austins always seem significantly hardier and I was hoping these, although marketed as HTs, were more mixed lineage and would be hardier too. The beds are a bit elevated, which hurts cold-tolerance but helps keep things well-drained. But I can bury the bud unions and throw on some bark mulch or leaves in the fall, which may help. Okay, Peter is officially on the list, and I think I MUST have Liv and Yves Piaget--the flowers look too wonderful to pass up. Every weekend the ground stays workable I keep fixing up the beds to accommodate more roses...so now I have room for another order from Roses Unlimited!...See More
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