Summers that DOES sound like a dream home for sure. That is going to be spectacular. You can set up a green house and have all kinds of awesome things also in there. What a lovely place that is going to be. I am super excited for you. Vapor unfortunately Kew gardens does get BS here when I don’t spray. To be fair it keeps blooming and I do not think 🤔 i has completely defoliated but not clean like Darlow’s enigma. It has few thorns and it forms a very nicely shaped bush. I will stop spraying it and see what happens and report back. (I have quit spraying certain roses to test them in order to determine if they will qualify to be added to my no spray small garden at the lake). So far spirit of freedom, Olivia, Bathsheba, Claire, Wollerton old hall, Emily, Roal Dahl and Wedgwood are clean enough to get a spot. I much as I love gardening I can barely keep up with one so the other place needs to be lower maintenance.

I have all 3 but Gabriel Oak and Eustacia Vye are both new bare roots. I think Marlorena would be in a better position to advise you since as far as i'm aware she has all three. I've only had Emily Bronte for 1 year but for what it's worth I recall the fragrance in it's first year being very nice! It's a strong sherbet like fragrance with strong grapefruit overtones. Reminds me of those love heart sweets. I have no idea how it will be when the scent stabilises in later years. Unfortunately (and DA don't seem to stress this enough) the perfectly coloured blooms ALL pale into an ugly pale brown/creamy colour that looks in every way, worse than how the blooms look at their best. DA are obsessed with this paling in their roses even if it seems to detract from their beauty.

@mamaham, recently Hoang Ton from Florida just posted a video and photos of Eustacia Vye. See this link: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6119494/david-austin-rose-eustacia-vye-1st-year#n=9 Mine will bloom in a week or two. It is so far a very robust rose.

Very lovely, as usual Hoang Ton:-) Your roses are always so healthy! I think we talked last year about how shocked I was that my Molineux was so very tall. I was expecting Molineux to be a smaller plant. I do love it, even though it’s bigger that expected and the blooms don’t make good cut flowers. BenT, mine is in bloom right now and it’s very colorful each bloom is saturated with colors. I do sometimes get that pale yellow, but I enjoy seeing what Molineux will do each flush. Life of the Party has been one that I’ve been eyeing for a while. It’s just that I don’t trust it to stay compact. It probably really would be the “Life of the Party“ in my garden. With my climate it would probably grow enormous and its new name would be something like “Raging Wild Party”. Thanks for the pictures and videos! I do enjoy them so. Lisa