The colour is quite similar but my Lady Emma has a nice bushy habit with reddish new leaves and reddish stems. Lady S is more upright and taller in growth and greener leafed.
Photo of Lady Emma.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I bought a DA rose called Geoff Hamilton at the Gardeners world live last year. It is doing better and better. It is very bushy now and the most disease resistant rose in the garden. I will buy more DA rose if I can find more space
Never buy their bare root roses. They are advertised with numerous branches on their web site - false advertising - you might be lucky and get a 4 branch rose of some shape, poorly pruned is usually my experience, stuffed in a dry plastic bag with no moisture at all. I recently had a rose sent to me it was so poor I had to ask for a replacement (also had no label attached), it was only fit for the shredder. To cap it all I visited my daughter over Easter and asked her to show me the roses I had gift sent to her for Christmas, one was fine the other had just two branches and no sign of life, it was a dreadful example. They should be ashamed sending out roses like this as gifts or for any reason for that matter. That was the last straw they have lost my and my daughters custom. I don't know who runs that dept. I was told that the roses are graded, well whoever is doing it needs retraining to say the least.
I live in France so several of my David Austin roses have had to be ordered bare rose and sent by post. Apart from Malvern Hills they have all been in good condition with at least four branches and wrapped in a plastic bag with damp compost in it. I complained about the Malvern Hills and they sent me a really good replacement. OH ordered 3 x Gertrude Jekyll for me this winter and they are doing very well.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I am slightly wary regarding paying such a high price for DA roses, as I bought two 5 years ago, because at the point of sale, it said that they were disease free, but they caught black spot almost straight away. I had dug a new bed and mulched and enriched the soil. So I was upset that they contracted Black Spot. I have since bought lesser brand named roses and they have been super. So I am not sure that the high cost brands are worth the extra expense.
Having spent 25 years living in Belgium and seen the price of bare root roses direct from DA I decided to reduce the risk and ordered all of mine form a rose specialist in the Ardennes who sells them potted up. I assumed, correctly, that any he sold would be hardy enough for a Belgian winter. Even so, for their first year I would pot them on and take them under shelter for winter before planting out in the borders.
The only ones I had problems with were early bare root purchases direct from DA - William Shakespeare and Grace turned out to be wussy in winter. WS struggled and Grace just gave up and died.
They advertise their roses as disease resistant If you grow them well, they'll be fine but if you plant them in poor soil already infected with black spot spores you're inviting trouble.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Since I moved to France last October I have adopted the same policy and ordered DA roses thru a French supplier, mail order this time, and been very pleased with both the quality of the plants and the price. 3 were bare rooted and 4 came in pots. All now potted up or on and growing well.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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What is the main colour difference before LOS and LEH? Anyone have any Lady Emma Hamilton photos to hand?
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Photo of Lady Emma.
I bought a DA rose called Geoff Hamilton at the Gardeners world live last year. It is doing better and better. It is very bushy now and the most disease resistant rose in the garden. I will buy more DA rose if I can find more space
Sumptuous Busy. Looking forward to mine flowering.
Never buy their bare root roses. They are advertised with numerous branches on their web site - false advertising - you might be lucky and get a 4 branch rose of some shape, poorly pruned is usually my experience, stuffed in a dry plastic bag with no moisture at all. I recently had a rose sent to me it was so poor I had to ask for a replacement (also had no label attached), it was only fit for the shredder. To cap it all I visited my daughter over Easter and asked her to show me the roses I had gift sent to her for Christmas, one was fine the other had just two branches and no sign of life, it was a dreadful example. They should be ashamed sending out roses like this as gifts or for any reason for that matter. That was the last straw they have lost my and my daughters custom. I don't know who runs that dept. I was told that the roses are graded, well whoever is doing it needs retraining to say the least.
I live in France so several of my David Austin roses have had to be ordered bare rose and sent by post. Apart from Malvern Hills they have all been in good condition with at least four branches and wrapped in a plastic bag with damp compost in it. I complained about the Malvern Hills and they sent me a really good replacement. OH ordered 3 x Gertrude Jekyll for me this winter and they are doing very well.
I am slightly wary regarding paying such a high price for DA roses, as I bought two 5 years ago, because at the point of sale, it said that they were disease free, but they caught black spot almost straight away. I had dug a new bed and mulched and enriched the soil. So I was upset that they contracted Black Spot. I have since bought lesser brand named roses and they have been super. So I am not sure that the high cost brands are worth the extra expense.
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Having spent 25 years living in Belgium and seen the price of bare root roses direct from DA I decided to reduce the risk and ordered all of mine form a rose specialist in the Ardennes who sells them potted up. I assumed, correctly, that any he sold would be hardy enough for a Belgian winter. Even so, for their first year I would pot them on and take them under shelter for winter before planting out in the borders.
The only ones I had problems with were early bare root purchases direct from DA - William Shakespeare and Grace turned out to be wussy in winter. WS struggled and Grace just gave up and died.
They advertise their roses as disease resistant If you grow them well, they'll be fine but if you plant them in poor soil already infected with black spot spores you're inviting trouble.
There's also Grace, isn't there? Similar orange I wonder?
Grace is quite a pale oange. More apricot.
Since I moved to France last October I have adopted the same policy and ordered DA roses thru a French supplier, mail order this time, and been very pleased with both the quality of the plants and the price. 3 were bare rooted and 4 came in pots. All now potted up or on and growing well.