I’m in! Although I’m a little worried it might be more of a warm pale gold vs peach

Much more tempting to me than last years offerings which I will not be getting

I feel the same way @oursteelers 8B PNW. I am excited about something that resembles Roald Dahl and Jude, but it does look more gold toned and seems like the petal count is closer to Lark Ascending. I read in a description somewhere the color being “caramel”.

If that rose had appeared among any of my seedlings, i would have culled it. Absolutely ordinary, lookswise. maybe its healthier than most, which would be a welcome change for DA.

It's pretty, but I've already got Jude, so I don't feel like this rose would bring anything new to my garden.

I really like the shape of the flower and depending on how the light hits the blooms it has the potential to be quite beautiful. It does remind me of Jude but since it is supposed to be a smaller plant it can go places Jude is too big for.

Also I have to say most DA’s are pretty healthy for me and I have quite a few from old to new releases.

In my organic, no spray garden (in a fairly black spotty area; within an hour of Seattle) my most disease prone roses are cl LaFrance, Blossomtime and this year Kronprinzessen Viktoria

Screenshot from DA (you have to chose UK/British option for the page to appear, apparently folks in North America should not be looking at it!)

It looks like a smaller, scantily petaled Jude. I was hoping for bigger , longer lasting, more magnificent blooms like Evelyn or Abe, but recent intros seem to be going more toward the direction of multiflora. Probably, as Paul said , better disease resistance, or why bother at all. I’m afraid it will lighten to beige-white once strong sun hits it. I’ll just hang on to my Jude.

It looks a lot like Wollerton Old Hall, but with less petals. It did remind me of Roald Dahl, too. For now, I'll stick with Wollerton. I guess the fragrance on this new one is not myrrh, so maybe that will make it more popular?

WOH.

Wow, Librarian. You should be a top pro florist, flower arranger. That is the kind of bouquet I dream about. Can you come to my house and do a bouquet of my Jude? Your Wollerton is a ringer for Jude. You should see my pathetic Snowball plonk. The flowers were about to drop, so it's a mite droopy. You are what my Snowball needs, too. Right now, my Snowball is on its way down as far as blooms, and my roses haven't started to bloom. Totally uncoordinated for a fantastic bouquet like yours. Diane

Diane, I can't believe you've got blooming snowball bush already! It's your turn to be light-years ahead of us over here. I do have some flowers: a few lilac blooms that hung on through the hail, blue flax, verbascum, and creeping babys breath. Photos soon, I hope.

I need to get Wollerton Old Hall. Is it on the Retire List aka Hit List? I have Jude and I love it.

Jude 2023. Like Shakespeare 2000. They cancelled Jude to make way for this one as there is just no way both would be marketable. Like @librarian_gardner_8b_pnw I'm sticking with WOH, bouquet below from yesterday, and my lovely Jude.

@sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida) WOH is not on the cull list having just come out in 2011. It's a superb rose. Terrific fragrance, vigorous, healthy.

You're very kind Diane. This is earliest I've had roses due record breaking heat we had for several days a week ago. It is nice and strange to have snowball and roses overlap!. Id love to come to your house 😍 your garden is the stuff of dreams and you've taught me so much on this forum.

Robert, your WOH is beautiful, too. I think they wanted a non myrrh rose for those who smell it and think Wollerton Moth Balls Hall. 😅 I'm wondering if it'sit's (the new rose) healthier than Jude and that's why they're replacing it. .... Just as many here have suggested.

Thanks Robert. I just went to the DA site before I read this and several that were supposedly being nixed are now supposed to be restocked next year. One can get on the email notification list. I signed up for several notifications lol. I believe Jude is one as well as Lady Emma, Munstead Wood, Jubilee Celebration, et al.

Tina, I can't think of the name of it, but there was a pale yellow Austin years ago that looked similar. I keep thinking Comte de something, but can't find it on HMF. I saw it in an 'open garden'. It did look beautiful with the light shining through it. It glowed.

@librarian_gardner_8b_pnw mothballs? I had no idea that was how the fragrance is perceived by some. Reminds me of the issues with cilantro!

Yep. Cilantro, licorice, myrrh. Not for everyone and I understand itit, it's fine, we don't all like the same . But thankfully I like all three 😊

@Ang NC_7B - I thought DA would be revealing their new release(s) soon - thanks for posting this. Honestly, I’d rather have Jude over this one.

@sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida) - Hopefully they’ll actually restock these varieties next season. Last summer I signed up for several notifications to replace some of the roses I left behind but I received an email in December saying they’d no longer be restocked (Evelyn, Spirit of Freedom, etc…).

@titian1 10b Sydney - Was it Comte de Champagne? I was tempted to try that one years ago but decided not to because of the reported unpleasant fragrance.

Ben Hamilton Anderson posted a video on it.

The plant he received looks better than the Austin pics, but still almost seems like an open center semidouble. Not enough petals for me, and seems like it will shatter quickly.

@titian1 10b Sydney I have been tempted many times by Comte de Champagne (I think the pictures of it are stunning, I like a variety of bloom shapes)but I think frgarance is light and every time I sniff a rose and there isn’t any scent I’m always bummed.

Dave, it was Comte de Champagne! I kept thinking champagne, but thought it was just because I like champagne - or at least, bubbly!

Tina, I don't remember smelling it, so I can't comment. I agree, a rose without fragrance is disappointing.

It looks exactly like my favorite Jude so first, I was hoping improved Jude but the flower is not as big and fragrance is only medium.... so it's not really Jude isn't it?

Oh I love Jude. Just so amazing amazing fragrance and incredibly strong. The most fragrant in my garden (but Desdemona is catching up this 3rd year... until last year there aren't much of scent so I almost culled it 🤭Glad I didn't!"

There are two Austins that I am going to be ditching this year, and this new release looks like a combination of both of them:

The color of the Lark Ascending, on the bloom shape of Royal Jubilee. 

Both of them look like their website pictures for about a few hours then within a day, the color fades and the bloom shatters. I expect nothing more from this one.

The voles ditched Olivia Rose for me, and I replaced her with a second Rouge Royale. I wonder what happened to an Austin rose I was interested in a couple of years ago called Bring Me Sunshine. I got the run around from Austin about it coming to the US over a year ago. I've seen nothing else in the last few years from Austin that has interested me. An improved Jude--hahaha. Diane

Here is Dannahue as seen at RHS Chelsea Flower Show yesterday. It is a lovely shorter, bushy plant that, at least to me, is a dead ringer for Jude the Obscure. Fragrance is different though. It has a lovely strong citrusy fragrance but lacks the grapefruit tones of JtO. Some of these pots had only one plant in each (first and last photos below), others had two plants each.

Isaphan -- thank you for posting the photos from Chelsea! Did you get any other photos? Going to Chelsea has been on my bucket list for a while now.