@Gartener Holy crow, your EH is very encouraging. I have just bought two. I'd love half of what you have in four years. Great colour. Is it in a very sunny spot? Do you feed it often? I have never managed to grow a rose in that way.
Yep its in a Sunny south facing spot and gets good dose of Sun light in Summer.
I feed it probably twice in the season with Bfb and Toprose (its actually planted in smallish gap in the Patio, so there isnt much space around it for feeding). I dont even water it regularly but i assume it gets what it needs from the soil under the patio.
In my experience the most important thing for rose growth is Sun light + ideally planted in the ground. Good luck with your EDH plans...
In a non sunny position try “Souvenir du Dr Jamain” rose. I am growing it on a north facing wall, where it doesnt get any sun at all but is still doing Ok. Not as vigorous as EDH but good enough for the location. It also is not as tall as EDH but flower colour is similar.
Everything else is approaching full flush for me right now, but Munstead Wood is only just opening:
These Mme. Hardy were bare root, received the end of March, root pruned and temporarily potted on into David Austin deep pots. I’m pleased at how far they have come already, looking healthy and have a fair number of buds on, so can’t wait to see them bloom. They also have very jaunty sepals...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Marlorena sorry to bother you, but I was hoping for a bit of info on this one:
This is the full plant of the Lady of the Lake that I posted a bloom of a while back, which went in as a container-grown late last summer. No more blooms yet, but lots of buds. You mentioned earlier in this thread that some DA climbers can look more like bush roses for the first year or two, so maybe that is what I am seeing here? Last summer this plant put out a few real "climbing" leaders; long, vigorous and without buds. At the moment I don't see any growth like that, just lots of thinner, bud bearing branches. I am not training any of these and am happily looking forward to a proper flush of flowers but just wondering when I can expect more climbing growth.
@matt_fender … Matt, all is well, your rose is doing just great... ...usually what happens is that the rose will have its first flush of bloom, which is usually the best one, and then after you deadhead the flowers, it will throw up shoots from the base and elsewhere on the plant, that will be long and thin.. rambler like.. it will also throw out shoots with flowers on them but not so many as earlier..
... I would be very surprised indeed if all that trellis I can see is not covered in rambling growth before summers end.. but even if it fails to do so this summer.. it will throw them up in the autumn long before winter, as you are well into the 2nd year with it... They also increase their height with new shoots coming out near the top, so look out for those..
Austin roses can be slow to take off, but we have to watch out when they do... no worries whatsoever... keep us informed...
@Gartener "
In a non sunny position try “Souvenir du Dr Jamain” rose."
Lol. I put two in last year. They are reaching for the sun but about to put have their first blooms. They are pretty weedy but may have suffered from last years very dry summer and my tendency to under water everything.
@Fire .. thanks for the photos, I missed them, they didn't show up earlier.. I'll be honest and say I could do with better images, larger ones... but from your description it sounds like a climbing version of that rose, which there used to be one offered by Beales nursery... the flowers do look like Niphetos but my main query is with the thorns... Niphetos has big thick red thorns... yet you don't seem to notice them... if your rose does not have these big thick red thorns then it's not Niphetos…
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I feed it probably twice in the season with Bfb and Toprose (its actually planted in smallish gap in the Patio, so there isnt much space around it for feeding). I dont even water it regularly but i assume it gets what it needs from the soil under the patio.
In my experience the most important thing for rose growth is Sun light + ideally planted in the ground. Good luck with your EDH plans...
https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/souvenir-du-dr-jamain
These Mme. Hardy were bare root, received the end of March, root pruned and temporarily potted on into David Austin deep pots. I’m pleased at how far they have come already, looking healthy and have a fair number of buds on, so can’t wait to see them bloom. They also have very jaunty sepals...
This is the full plant of the Lady of the Lake that I posted a bloom of a while back, which went in as a container-grown late last summer. No more blooms yet, but lots of buds.
You mentioned earlier in this thread that some DA climbers can look more like bush roses for the first year or two, so maybe that is what I am seeing here? Last summer this plant put out a few real "climbing" leaders; long, vigorous and without buds. At the moment I don't see any growth like that, just lots of thinner, bud bearing branches. I am not training any of these and am happily looking forward to a proper flush of flowers but just wondering when I can expect more climbing growth.
...usually what happens is that the rose will have its first flush of bloom, which is usually the best one, and then after you deadhead the flowers, it will throw up shoots from the base and elsewhere on the plant, that will be long and thin.. rambler like.. it will also throw out shoots with flowers on them but not so many as earlier..
... I would be very surprised indeed if all that trellis I can see is not covered in rambling growth before summers end.. but even if it fails to do so this summer.. it will throw them up in the autumn long before winter, as you are well into the 2nd year with it... They also increase their height with new shoots coming out near the top, so look out for those..
Austin roses can be slow to take off, but we have to watch out when they do... no worries whatsoever... keep us informed...
...let's see some more pics later on, if I may...