Oh wow! Mine has been pouting because she's in a pot that has been overgrown with grass. Big pot but those grass roots fill every bit of it. Everyday I say this is the day I un-pot her and put her in the ground. By the time evening's cooler temps arrive I'm pooped and no good for heavy labor. Hopefully the planets will align soon before she gives up on me. She really is a lovely rose. Mary

Hi Mary, mine is also in a pot. It's a large pot but I hope to plant it in the ground this winter... I hope being in the ground will allow it to reach its full potential!

I planted Jubilee Celebration this spring, and like it very much. The pink and cream colors are beautiful, nice fragrance.

JC is my idea of rose perfection -- thank you for posting your gorgeous photo. Sadly, it was very disease-prone for me and I had to remove it. But I miss it terribly...

I've grown Jubilee Celebration for 8 or 9 years now--planted in the ground. It has never been very vigorous though it has some of the loveliest blooms in Austinlandia. But it will never reach the height listed in Austin's catalog. It also has regular bouts of B.S. -- though not heavily.

I've threatened to toss it many times--and then it blooms--the loveliest of blooms. Despite its weak neck, I just can't throw it out.

Kate

The color is perfection

Hmmm, now you got me thinking about trying it again, this time in a container. I had it in the ground and it never got as big as other Austins, but it was the most susceptible to BS, which I think ultimately caused its decline.

This was my 4-year old JC, at it's peak:

Thank you so much for the nudge. I figured I could at least get her out of the pot and separate from all the grassy/rooty mess. Really glad I did. She was in trouble - two major canes totally dead and some of the anchor roots snapped off in 1" pieces as I brushed by them. There are still 2 viable canes and the roots don't seem totally dead so there is hope. She is soaking in a bucket of water with very light doses of fish/kelp and Thrive. Fingers crossed and hoping for the best. At the rate I had been going she would never have made it. Mary

I have ordered JC and I should have it in the next couple of weeks. It says in the catalogue that it grows to 4ft tall and wide. What size does it actually get to in different climates? I want to put it in an appropriate spot so I can show it off to best advantage. Lola.

It is a shorty in my garden--maybe 2.5 ft tall--and like I said above, I've had it for 8 or 9 years, so I doubt it will get larger now all of a sudden. I am in Zone 6 Kansas.

But it is lovely as can be in the front row of the rose garden.

Festiva--your JC looked wonderful--bigger and more vigorous than mine has ever been.

Kate

I have to agree, Festiva, your rose, and also the surrounding plantings, are lovely. It's always bad when a formerly gorgeous rose goes downhill. Perhaps for some climates it's better in a pot.

Kate, I had to smile at your JC, wearily resting its chin on the metal support. Sooo tired, simply cannot hold my head up.

I feel that way some days--though not so often now that I am retired. : )

jjkoc - What an incredible bloom! I’ve enjoyed the blooms and thier fantastic scent at a local nursery but have not had a place for it in my garden.

Festiva - I can understand the love/hate relationship there. My Darcey Bussell was prone to BS but I enjoyed the spring fall blooms so much. It did not make it through this past winter and I am still debating whether to replace it because of its tendency to BS quite badly here. Amazing looking JC you had!

Dublinbay - Nice bud and bloom! To me, JC has a unique apricot tone that sets it apart from others - it’s beautiful.

All beautiful photos of this rose! Here are a few more... the other thing that I find unique about this rose is the serrated type petals, something very lotus-like about the flower.

What a lovely bush, jj. Don't think my JC will ever match it.

Kate

These pictures are just incredibly beautiful. It may not be the healthiest or most robust bush, but the blooms are jaw-droppingly beautiful. Somehow this rose has passed under my radar all this time, perhaps because of health issues, but who can ignore the blooms shown in these picture?

Thank you Dublinbay and Ingrid! I am hoping it will do well in the ground...right now it has a cozy spot facing SW and right next to the hose. But if it gets bigger and I get more of these beautiful blooms I will be happy!

Love the petal shape. Reminds me of Alnwick and Poseidon.

Festival, are those white salvia or Veronica beneath your JC? What variety if I may ask?

This is one of my favorite Austins, I had 5 but one vanished and I plan to replace. The older 2 of mine are about 4-5 feet tall, the two newer ones are more like 2 feet and I am in SoCal. I am super excited about a seedling I found that seems to have sprouted from a fallen hip

Beautiful rose. I love the peach colour. I see all you guys have pics and they all are so beautiful.

I wish I can have this rose but I have to stay away from roses that has BS. I am in FL where humid is very high and it rains too much down here. So, I rather enjoy your roses and resisting the crave of buying :)

Thanks for sharing your roses

They are mouth dropping beauties and I was Wowing :)

Jin

Totoro, that's a while salvia -- Snow Hill. I don't have other white perennials because to me they look washed out in bright sunlight, but that cultivar works really well as a companion plant. Looks nice against a dark green backdrop.

Love this pic Kippy! I’ve only seen one bloom on my bush this light peach color, due to heat. Has this also been your experience?

Thanks to all for sharing their wonderful pictures of JC. I love the cream reverse on the petals, and the delightful fragrance.

Jubilee Celebration with The Mayflower

HY, I will look into it. I will ask the nurseries about BS. So far, non of my DA had any BS with so much hmid and daily rains as a matter of fact the love water. I am very impressed with DA performance. I am nuts about scent.

I love everybody's photos. They are all very beautiful. There is a reason why I keep reading posts here. It has capture my attention.

Thanks:)

Jin

Jin, if you really love a rose and don't mind the expense of a gamble, then I think it's worth trying something in your own garden. That's the biggest thing I've learned in my first year gardening.

Not that I'm not grateful for the experiences shared here but I've noticed several times now that roses (and other plants) that people complain about, end up performing really well for me. (And conversely, plants other people raved about, turned out really disappointing or riddled with pests in my garden)

For example, before I started planting roses last year, I was doing a lot of research into the different David Austin cultivars and based on all the comments on GardenWeb, I wouldn't have touched Abraham Darby with a barge pole! Everyone seemed to be complaining about him and what a disease magnet he is, especially with blackspot, etc, etc...

Well, in the end, I decided to take a chance and he has been the healthiest of the 12 DA's I planted. Not one speck of blackspot on him. And he's planted by the lawn so he was getting regularly sprayed by the lawn sprinklers. He's grown to 5 feet in one season, with multiple new basal shoots, and constantly reblooms, with huge flowers, even though he's in partial shade. He's been a fantastic rose.

Of course, I do live in a dry Mediterranean climate so BS and other fungal diseases aren't too big an issue in general - but my point is, Abraham Darby wasn't one of the DA's which DID succumb to blackspot in my garden and I'd really expected him to be the worst, based on everyone's comments. If I had just listened to general opinion, I would have missed out on a great rose.

(He might still go downhill yet - I've only had him 1 yr and I know that's nothing in gardening terms - but I'm enjoying him so far!)

HY

HY, you never really know how a rose will perform in your garden based on others' experience, Every garden is unique in so many ways, some of them rather subtle, and if you really want a rose badly it's worth trying it. The price of one rose won't break the bank and you may be (as indeed you were) pleasantly surprised.

Thanks Festiva for the salvia name.

Here is Alnwick showing a similar shape as JC

I found a Jubilee Celebration in a local garden centre earlier this year, in the spring. It had obviously been there for some time. It was small, stunted, with lots of die back and very few leaves. I took the poor thing home and planted it in a pot, as I have absolutely no room in the garden. It sat in that pot, for about two months, looking terrible, then, there was the tiniest suspicion of new growth. That was then. This is now.

Since it started flowering, it has produced, masses of beautiful blooms all the way through the heat of the summer. Even through the heat waves. It doesn't have just the odd one or two bloom at a time, but masses, continuously. It makes me feel like a proud mum, every time I step outside.

David Austin said in his catalogue, "This is one of the finest roses we have introduced so far" and I cannot disagree.

Daisy

Daisy - do you have any support hiding in there to hold the canes up or is that it's natural shape? Mine is coming back to life and am trying to figure out where to move it to. Thanks

Mary, I had to run out to check, 'cos I couldn't remember. Yes. I have given it just one central stake, which I have tied the branches to. It is hardly visible. I cannot take a photo, because it is raining!!!

Daisy

Thanks Daisy. Just knowing is enough. Mine grew to 'adulthood' during the last few years of garden neglect so I wasn't sure if mine flopped so much due to nature or nurture. And hope you are enjoying your rain, something we southern Californians can only dream of :)

What a gorgeous rose. Daisy, yours looks incredible! I bet it enjoyed the rain. Lisa

dublinbay z6 (KS) Are you still active here? I'm also in KS, and searching for the right DA rose. Can you share any experiences in which have done best for you?