SJN, I have both PAK and Sharifa Asma. My temps in the summer get to be about the surface of the sun. My PAK came through like a champ. She gets full sun and is in direct line of hot afternoon sun. She also sits in front of my house which is a very creamy white. Needless to say, she gets the reflective heat off of that as well. Plus we are on water restrictions, so she only gets watered twice a week when the temps can be over 112 degrees and cools off at night to say 85 for two seconds before reaching 95 plus again. She is on her own root and this was her first year. Here are some pictures. Her flowers are gorgeous and HUGE! In cooler weather, they were bigger than my hand! She also makes a good cut flower compared to other Austins. She is one great rose! This is her in June when she was a baby. By the time December came around she was over 6 feet tall. This is a picture around Thanksgiving. Sharifa Asma is also a beauty. I do love that rose and the scent is to die for. She is not overly fond of heat however and I get about three flushes of blooms on her for the year. She doesn't produce when it is hot. I have her in full sun and I think she might enjoy a bit of afternoon shade. She stays very small and mannerly for an Austin, about three to four feet tall and about three feet wide in a well rounded bush. Let me see if I can find some pictures of her.

Thanks so much for taking the time to post these beautiful photos!! I think I will place Munstead Wood next to St. Swithun, a light pink, rather than the medium pink Princess Alexandra. Photos do help, as a picture is worth a thousand words. Thanks much!

I have to say my PAOK is a blooming machine! When I got her first year own root from DA, she grew to be about 10--12 feet and was eating people as they walked up my pathway to the front door. I pruned her back within an inch of her life, year two and had the same results. Lots of flowers even in the worst of our hot, hot summers. Year three, I moved her late to a spot in the back where she could spread. She sulked as the person who dug her up did not get a lot of the root system. I forgave her and babied her as I figured she was just getting used to her new spot and growing roots. I just pruned her again within an inch of her life and hope she will grow big and produce lots of blooms this year. I have only seen a coral color on her at the base of her flowers. She is a beautiful medium pink for me. Now Lady of Shalott, she had bright A$$ orange flowers her first year and I nearly shovel pruned her. It was awful and she produced approximately two flowers the entire year. Year three is much better after she was dug up and moved. I love my PAOK and consider her to be one of the best DA roses so far.

Dianela, I forgot to mention the deer repellent I use. I get Deer Out as a concentrate, which you mix with water, on Amazon. Once you have found out if Deer Out helps with the deer problem, it's worth it to buy the concentrate. Start with the ready to spray form--but it won't last long and it's the priciest way to buy the repellent. I've tried a number of different repellents, and Deer Out works best in this garden. All the repellents have a main ingredient of rotten eggs. Deer out also contains oil of peppermint and oil of white pepper, plus maybe one other organic ingredient. I get this stuff on me as a blow back all the time, and it is harmless--I just stink like a peppermint flavored rotten egg. A small sacrifice for the roses--ha. You'll need a simple pump sprayer for the concentrate--just a hand held plastic household sprayer. Diane