My jaw dropped! How is it possible? It is so beautiful!

Chris, it’s gorgeous, I can understand why you love it so much! It looks like perfection!

I love the bloom form of this one. I do not grow it, but have seen a lot of really nice pictures of it. Yours looks really good!

I think you had posted some of these pics before..anyway it is what caused me to buy one this spring. Then I heard some lukewarm comments on it and have not planted my plant in the ground yet. Will do so in a minute so it can settle in during the next couple days of rain. Glad to hear it does so well for you and your pics are beautiful.

Wonderful photos, Chris and Sheila! Thanks for mentioning its growth habit, Chris, because I'm interested in roses that are on the tall and skinny side to shoehorn into the small spaces I have left and yet rise above the level of hungry rodent teeth.

Gorgeous Chris and Sheila. Yours look more graceful and beautiful than mine. I concur with the upright habit. My husband asked me “how it could be an Austin if it looked skinny” :) very healthy and delicate coloring. I have several planted together.

Ingrid she would be fantastic for a narrow spot with zero sprawling like Austin’s are known to do.

Beautiful pics! I agree this is a rose that needs 3 bushes planting close together to get a full look. Helen

Thanks everyone. Dianiela, yours looks great!

I keep trying to load larger pics of the whole bush, but not working. Maybe too large for houzz? I took this one on my way out this morning. I can't seem to pass by without taking a picture of this plant.

So beautiful...I actually just ordered QoS and have her planned for a narrow space.

I had three of them, 18 inches apart, and over three-four years they did form a hedge.

QofS was my first Austin “crush”. I was a beginner when they arrived. it Is tall and skinny, all right, but I learned to summer-prune mine.

Nice scent, too.

Gorgeous photos! Makes me want to start all over again,

These photos are stunning. How long do the blooms last on the bush? I may have to replace Alnwick with QOS because it shatters so quickly.

I just love your pictures! What a beautiful rose she is in your garden! Queen of Sweden is clearly happy with you and your climate. I have to admit, QOS is one of the very few roses I’ve shovel pruned. Mine was in a challenging spot, AM shade with blasting afternoon sun. She grew tall and narrow for me, as well. I could not get her to produce blooms anywhere except at the very top of her tall, straight canes. She was pretty unhappy with the dry heat, as well. I would get a few pretty blooms in March or April, and the rest had fewer petals, a washed out color, and shattered ultra fast. It may have done better had it not been in such a difficult site. If I’d had drip irrigation back then, and if the nearby eucalyptus tree had been removed before she was, things might have been different. I could see her potential, but at the time, I was unable to provide the conditions she needed. I now have two other roses in that area that are doing just fine, but the eucalyptus tree is gone, and I have drip irrigation. I sometimes wonder how she would have done now. I think some afternoon shade would have made all the difference to QOS in my garden.

Yours is beautiful and makes me wish I’d been successful with mine. It’s just beautiful! Lisa

Chris thank you, I am glad you are enjoying this rose. It certainly is growing on me because it is so healthy here and always has some blooms on. So far mine is not as full of blooms like some of my other Austins, but it is more of a constant always some blooms on.

Totoro I am never home long enough to ever find out, so ill let others come up with this info. Do you have space for both roses? I also added some Alnwicks this year and their shape and color are wonderful, it is a shame to hear they shatter quickly.

I love seeing everyone’s beautiful pictures of this rose!

Any idea how QofS would do with morning only sun? I am looking for ideas for my front yard after the polar vortex wiped out pretty much all the sub tropicals. Thank you!

Yes she loves morning sun, especially in hot summer.