2 cents a few days late: I have no experience with Pat Austin, but Lady Emma is a absolutely brilliant here in Phoenix. I have 3 planted in a dry stream, which means they get *reflected* heat -- they do have late afternoon shade from the house, but the heat is merciless. The new foliage is spectacular purple and bronze, it blooms constantly (with a rest in the worst of the summer, of course) and the fragrance is even better than Jude. I planted them grafted bare-root from Austin 2 springs ago. For comparison, 3 Carding Mill planted at the same time and in slightly better circumstances (in a "normal" bed rather than a dry stream) are just "blah." They actually might not get quite *enough* sun in their location, but neither the foliage nor the bloom is anything close to Lady Emma. This is from 2011, one year in the ground (click for big):

Tamora is the healthiest of my 3 Austins (no spray), and though she's younger than 2 years old with less than a year in the ground, she has stayed under 2 ft so far for me. Still very young, but I love the blooms and the scent is heavenly! I don't have Princess Alexandra of Kent, but I've almost ordered her like a million times because of the supposed small size and darker pink color. I don't have much space in my tiny yard for rose giants! Lucky you with your brand new garden space! Post pics once you've decided and planted.

I have all of the Austin oranges - Pat Austin, Lady Emma Hamilton, Summer Song, Lady of Shalott, and also Carding Mill. My Pat Austin has shown rose rosette disease, but is responding favorably to aspirin treatments at the moment. I'm hoping for the best on this. It does bloom nicely, but the flowers do not take our summer heat. The bush gets quite tall. It does have a good color, but, again, the flowers fry easily. Lady Emma Hamilton does not get to be a tall bush. It is more spreading. It does not bloom in large amounts of flowers at any given time, but it has a fairly steady supply of nicely fragrant flowers. It is the most consistent performer of the oranges that I have. Summer Song was quite pretty in the spring. For summer all three bushes of it that I have didn't do much of anything. I noticed that a couple of them were munched on probably by deer. Something ate the leaves off of them as well as part of the stems, and I have seen deer in the yard at various points. The first year I had these plants they did reasonably well. This past summer, year two, they didn't care for the excessive heat and just sulked. They did, however, throw long canes. The orange color does fade badly in the heat. They did not bloom much at all in the fall either. I think it was more because of the weather. Lady of Shalott was pretty its first year. It seemed to be going along okay growing and flowering most of the way through the growing season. It pretty well stopped by the end of September, but it had a couple of flowers late. I think this bush will get fairly large. Flower size has been on the small size. Perhaps it will improve some next year. Carding Mill does reasonably well, but the flowers have been on the small side. It can get to be about 5-6 feet tall here. Its growth habit is fairly cylindrical and doesn't spread much. The apricot color bleaches out to a pink in the heat. Otherwise, overall it has been reasonably consistent here. I have no major complaints about this one. I hope this helps a bit.

Ratdogheads, your pictures look great! My summers for the last few years have been pretty perfect with temps in the low 90's here and there, otherwise 80's, maybe a week of bad humidity and unbearable weather. I actually could plant roses all last summer it was so mild, and that is rare. We have been having strange weather for Wisconsin though, milder winters (like this last one) though last year's polar vortex was down to -26 without the windchill. My roses survived it. I'm curious on this year after the mild winter what will stay. I don't uncover till tax day, as we still usually get a frost around the 13th, then it's smooth sailing! I am having a hard time deciding what to prune as the canes are sometimes discolored then green then discolored further down. If it buds, do you keep it or cut it off? If it's totally brown or black I, of course, cut it off. Btw, thank you for showing your zone, I like to be able to see if someone is close to my zone and what they're growing! :) Krista, Wow! I love it between the two purple/pinks. It really brings out the pink. It doesn't look red at all. So pretty! I'm so glad you mentioned the fragrance because that is a must! Thank you!