Tell me about Teasing Georgia
Rosylady (PNW zone 8)
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Comments (16)Linrose, I don't know from where you got your (blanket) info on Austins, but the many I've been growing so far are certainly neither divas nor stingy with their blooms nor any less healthy than most other modern roses. Most of them are certainly a lot healthier, more vigorous and floriferous than many HT's, making fantastic garden plants. On the three you asked about: Lady Emma is a continuous bloomer with superb citrus-fruity scent similar to Jude the Obscure's, but a bit sweeter and more complex, absolutely delicious. Well behaved and wide growing, and in our temperate English climate practically evergreen (or ever-bronze, given the lovely color of its foliage). Catches some BS without spray but does not defoliate, and just keeps blooming and blooming. Quite amazing. This rose is a must for its beauty, scent and performance. My Tea Clipper is entering its third season. Its repeat was not great in its first year, but improved noticeably in its second. The blooms are very beautiful when they first open, but they fade teribly fast, within a day or two, into a wishy-washy color, ending up a very light, washed-out yellow-beige with floppy petals. That has been disappointing. Scent is tea. The plant is enormously vigorous with few thorns and quite healthy, even in my no-spray garden. Teasing Georgia - exquisitly beautiful and very healthy with an overwhelming display of flowers in the spring and early summer. Repeat in its first year is not so good, but will improve very noticeably every year. Lovely sweet tea scent. A superb, classic rose. Some more Austins I can recommend for performance: William Shakespeare 2000 Molineux Golden Celebration Sharifa Asma Heritage Abe Darby Crocus Rose Fair Bianca Prospero Lady of Megginch Radio Times Pat Austin Claire Austin Christopher Marlowe Jubilee Celebration The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild Sophy's Rose (not much scent) The Dark Lady (BS susceptible but superb bloomer) The Prince (a smallish plant but a good bloomer) The Herbalist Portmeirion A Shropshire Lad Ann Boleyn (flowers blow fast though) Jude the Obscure is also a good, reliable bloomer (albeit not a bloom machine) with fantastic scent and good health. In my experience, Austins tend to perform better when grafted. DA in Tyler TX sells the biggets, best quality plants. Hope this helps, Andrea...See MoreThe better climber? Teasing Georgia or The Pilgrim?
Comments (13)Kate, My largest TG plant is 13' high and 9' wide, but that is counting some new canes at the top. I'd say most of the plant is about 9x9'. The octopus canes at the top are bigging to arch over. It is not a sprawly gangly plant, but mostly makes a well-branched sturdy plant, just a nice shape and covered in blooms when it blooms. My smaller TG plant is not as happy in its location and is about 4x4'. My Dublin Bay plant is not grown on a support and it is about as wide as TG though not as tall. My Golden Celebration plant is about 6x6' I think. TG is bigger than Eden here, taller and wider. I just don't think TG would need a pillar and would overwhelm one. My The Pilgrim plant is so much sprawlier, but a friend's plant of it was about an 8x8' globe shaped thing. I wonder if Danae would be a good yellow for you. The blooms are not 1/4 as beautiful as those Austins, IMO, but they are pretty and the plant is very blackspot resistant. Danae has more flexible canes also. Good vigor but doesn't get as huge here. The color fades quickly though. Buff Beauty is often yellow. Linda...See MoreTeasing Georgia as a pillar rose?
Comments (7)I live in Florida, so we have different conditions, but I can tell what I have observed in my garden. This is Teasing Georgia's first year. Currently it is covered in blackspot, but I have not sprayed for a while. It is the kind of rose I think that gets a lot of blackspot, but does not defoliate. Florida is the blackspot capital of the world by the way. It had less blackspot in the hot humid summer than it now has in the cool dry fall. Other than the blackspot it is very healthy. Mine is grafted on fortuniana rootstock. It has not had a ton of blooms, but they are very pretty and have a light smell. The thing is a monster in my garden, it is at least as tall and my Don Juan climber. It puts out these stiff octopus canes....See MoreTeasing Georgia , ballerina and no id
Comments (9)Love your beautiful arbor. Such sweet memories swinging with your sweet baby and hubby. I hope someone knows your mystery rose bc it's beautiful. I too have Jasmina new this year and she has lots of buds. I just love Aloha so I might as well get it. Yours looks beautiful. I too love QOS. Such a delicate rose. Love the sweet bulldog. So is the toad house really for toads?? Judy...See Moresultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
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