@noseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque) I can't compare to Jude, since I've never grown it, but Windermere has one of the most delicious fragrances. One of my favorites.

-Chris

All my 13 bare roots shipped from DA,Texas are doing great except one. I planted it 2 weeks before.Two roots which doesnt have leaves still is green,so I have hope. Thanks for all amazing pictures of roses. I am in Michigan ,and the roses I ordered are Munstead wood,Poets wife,Desdemona,Olivia rose,Lady of Shallot.I chose healthy roses as I dont want to see the roses dying with disesase .Any comments on my selecttion,friends?

updated picture of Munstead Wood

Looks very beautiful

Michigan, the only rose you ordered that I have grown is Lady of Shalott. She wants to be a climber so give her lots of room. She also didn't like the heat here too much (you won't have that problem) but then who likes over 105 F for weeks and weeks on end? :)

Abe Darby

@Brandon Garner wow those are both gorgeous. I bet they smell great.

My Pretty Jessica is beginning to get going. Really getting the medicinal side of myrrh that I know a lot of people don't like but I do enjoy.

Pretty roses. I planted few DA roses.All are coming good except few. Any idea if I can get flowers in the first year itself? In zone 6,list of roses in previous message.

@Michigan zone 6 you can definately expect blooms from a first year grafted rose. Those roses you picked are all good ones. I'd give the one that hasn't leafed out yet some more time. Keep watering them well. If it doesn't come around, give DA a call and let them know what happened.

Thanks Chris.Good to hear that,waiting for first bloom from now.Here,summer is very short,so just doubted before.Yes I emailed them and they agreed to send a replacement. Happy with their customer service.

I posted Oliva Austin on the thread above. I ordered a couple more of her this spring and threw a Roald Dahl in the order because I'm hearing good reports on its disease resistance. I was not impressed with the bare roots DA sent as nothing bigger than a no. 2 pencil. But wow! In the last few days it's gone gang busters. I have no idea if its disease resistance will be as good as its reputation, but I sure hope so!

Since no one has already posted one, here is a baby Roald Dahl:

Wow wow ..Amazing. How many months old are they and which zone?

Michigan zone 6 This year's David Austin bare roots were planted the middle of April. I'm in 7a (MidTn) so beyond spring at this point and starting summer. I would be surpised if you didn't get blooms on most of yours this year as well. Here is one of the small but mighty Oliva Austins that is also happy as a clam:

And a full bush of the baby Roald Dahl:

Pretty young roses with beautiful flowers..Are you doing any extra care?Are you feeding with rose food or compost and in what frequency?

I totally forgot about Charles Renne Macintosh. He is my silent trooper, just keeps plugging along with no disease or insect issues .

Christopher Marlowe, scent is unique: carnation, musk, and lemon. It's an 11th-year-own-root in 4 hours of sun:

Charles Darwin

Imogen

Pretty Jessica

Michigan zone 6 . The entirety of my beds are amended with horse manure compost and I included some additional compost when planting. The only other thing I added when planting was a biochar/mycorrhizal product both to the hole and scattered as a top dressing--this is a new product for me this year so the jury is still out as to whether or not I'd recommend it. I haven't use any actual NPK fertilizers on them so far and typically wait to do so until they are better established.

The same bloom of English Garden yesterday and today.

Abraham Darby:

This was sent to me as Gentle Hermione but I think it may be Jude the Obscure:

The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild:

Heritage:

first year Ancient Mariner, it is very pretty even though it doesn't look like the picture from DA website

Amazing rose survived 100F + heat

@lynne CA Zone 9B It’s a good point that you noticed your TAM doesn’t look like the picture from DA website. Your Ancient Mariner looks a lot like my ”The Alnwick Rose”. I think TAR has one of the best fragrances. I have both roses.

Here is my TAR on HMF:

https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.337826

https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.337825

Young Lycidas

Carding Mill

Princess Alexandria of Kent

WS2000

Radio Times

Huntington Rose

Munstead Wood

William Morris

WS2000 and Evelyn

Thank you, Helen! It does looked like your alnwick rose. I was wondering about it. I know you have TAM, but can't find it.

That's too funny. This is the replacement of TAM they sent me this year. They don't know what's the rose I ordered couple years ago with tag TAM is . LOL

Here is the comparison of the two roses

I thought I posted some picks in this thread a while back. I guess I didn't here are some of mine. These are the 5 varieties that I grow.

Munstead Wood.

Scepter d' Isle

Molineux

LD Braithwaite

The Prince

@lynne CA Zone 9B Here is the link to my “The Ancient Mariner“ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQIVRVTHxSj/?utm_medium=copy_link 

Helen

Thank you, Helen! Love your roses and your photos!

All my roses coming good and some started getting flowers ..Really impressive for first year..Few questions I ..-In winter <v r in Michigan> , do I need to keep potted roses in garage or will it survive outside? My Lady of shallot is in pot. I wanted to train it as a climber against wall?After growing to how many feet should I train it to be a climber?

I'm in zone 5, and I have better luck burying roses deep OUTSIDE (6" below ground like the late rosarian Karl Bapst suggested). I kept own-root Firefighter in an unheated garage and it died this winter since I forgot to put a thermal blanket in Feb., when the temp. dipped to single digit inside my garage. Others in warmer zones who kept roses inside their garage report their dying if they forget to water it.

I have Lady of Shalott as 7th-year own-root, it blooms from head to bottom so it doesn't matter how many feet of growth before trained as climber. The bottom short branches bloom better than the tallest branch. It's in 4 hrs. of sun, same with W.S. 2000.

Several inches below ground is 32 F, even when it's -20 F above ground for zone 5. One winter I planted band-size W.S. 2000 (tiny own-root) late in September .. at 6" deep, plus I put a plastic ring (large pot with bottom cut-off) around it and filled with wood-chips. It's thriving as 11th-year own-root.

Ken Wilkinson: Really appreciate those bush-shots of Austins that you posted. THANK YOU. I wish there are more pics. like that in HMF. Bush-shots help me tremendously since I get to see their leaves and growth habit.

Amazing roses everyone!!

Here's Bishop Castle from last year. It's not doing well this year...but that's my fault...pH issues. This is what it usually looks like.

Thanks @strawchicago z5 for sharing photos and suggestions. So,if leaving outside in pot,are you just leaving it without any protection? Or if keeping in unheated garage,should i need to water monthly once?Mine-all are DA roses-Olivia rose austin ,Lady of shallot and Desdemona in pots.

I don't leave roses outside in pots, they die in zone 5 winter.

Yes to once a month watering if they are covered with thermal blankets inside an unheated garage. A friend in Texas, zone 8, also covered her roses with thick thermal blanket inside an unheated garage. It's the temp. fluctuation that kills roses rather than steady cold as in unheated garage.

Perle d'Or survived winter well in a pot inside my unheated garage, the minute I planted in the ground in early May, weather went from very warm to spring frost, and it died. Lesson learned, I don't bring roses outside until the danger of frost has passed.

Thanks a lot @strawchicago z5,that helped. I will try to keep in basement instead of garage this winter.This will be my first winter of my potted roses .

For tiny rootings (1/4 the size of band), they survived winter best in my unheated garage & covered with a blanket than down my basement. The basement's gas-heater kept drying out pots despite weak light from the window. It was real pain to water roses daily if kept down the basement. They died of overwatering.

My herbs (basil and rosemary) can't do well indoor unless with bright sun & steady warmth, but whiteflies infestation was a pain. Folks in CA also advised against keeping roses indoor in the winter (spider-mites infestation).

Roses survive winter best if kept dormant with STEADY COLD TEMP. such as under a thermal blanket in a dark garage. The late rosarian Karl Baspt, zone 5a, wrote on how his pots (kept in the garage) became frozen solid like a block of ice, but they survive winter great. It's the thaw & freeze that destroys roots, rather than steady cold at 32 F.

noseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque) I was reading your comments about a white rose. I was just thinking How much I love Earth Angel, not sure if white enough for you but such a great rose. It has flowered a lot, a lot more resistant to thrips and heat than Bolero. I was going to get 2 more boleros for my front yard, but will get 2 EA instead. This spring, I was not able to get not even a good bloom that didn’t have thrip damage on bolero, EA it’s doing so much better and last a lot longer in the plant or vase!

bolero

earth angel

Nice pictures @CeresMer Zone 7a NJ .. @strawchicago z5-Thanks for your suggestions and sharing the experience.. Just thinking-if for the whole winter ,if covering with thermal blanket in garage,will it be too much heated if the temperature is normal on some days?Or if it's going beyond some temperature,are you covering with blanket?

Anu: Fantastic question!! Forgot to mention that I only cover them with thermal blanket when the temp dips to below 20 F. Own-root nurseries gave the tip of don't winterize roses until in the low 20's.

Ceres: Thank you for posting those pics. of Earth Angel, it's on my wish-list. How do you like the scent of Earth Angel compared to Bolero? Thank you.

@CeresMer Zone 7a NJ - thank you for your suggestion! I have tried Earth Angel after seeing all the beautiful photos here. Unfortunately, Earth Angel did not want to grow here, and after some serious pampering, the few buds it produced were entirely devoured by thrips before they ever opened. The two blooms that it managed to open were quite beautiful and it was very sad when I removed it. Desdemona has been much more successful, and more fragrant, but to be completely honest, I find the flowers (as compared to others, or to EA’s best flowers) to be less beautiful.

Gosh, Ceres - those are stunning roses!!!! WOW!!

Among my 33 own-root Austin roses, there are few scents that I can stick my nose in 24/7.

Leander, St. Cecilia, Mary Magdalene, the Dark Lady, W.S. 2000.

Below bouquet was picked July 24:

Radio Times, sweet and pure heaven (not too face-powder perfume like Comte de Chambord), medium pink below. It's steady fragrant when topped with pea-gravel.

Evelyn: sweet peach, light pink

Munstead Wood: sweet berries, dark red.

For beauty & scent & vigor, Radio Times is #1

Radio Times get my vote as the most photogenic. Below pic. was taken this July 24:

Below pic. was taken back in 2011 when I first bought Radio Times as 1st year own-root:

Bush has pretty leaves & healthy as 11th-year-own-root, pic. taken this July 14, I don't spray:

Oh WOWZA!!!! I really, really love your July 24 RT picture and the one below it!! Oh SWOON!!! :) :) :) Another one that is a stunner is the light yellow rose in the first picture...what rose is that beauty?

Carol: thank you, you are the reason why people (including me) post in this forum. Without your wonderful spirit and kind words, there won't be any posters. The yellow rose is Tchaikosky, lasts 5+ days in the vase.

Straw - the reason why I fit in here so well is that we're all such great people. :) :) But THANK YOU so much!! :) :) And the amount of time/effort you put into helping people is INCREDIBLE!!! You are a great treasure here..in every way!! :) :) Tchaikosky....ahh!! It's gorgeous!!

All my roses which planted are coming well,i am very happy with all DA roses i purchased. The picture i attached seems to be wrongly sent instead of Olivia.Still,i like it.Any clue which rose?Thanks in advance!

Looks like the Lady Gardener.

https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.68973&tab=36

Teasing Georgia finally taking off

Anu - I can see why you like it! It's so delicately beautiful!

Kristine - all right!!! That's really good to see!! I especially love the first pic!

Anu .. my guess is crocus