just a general question who has David Austin roses and which ones are you favourites and pictures I have Royal jubilee / roald Dahl and teasing georgia.
...I've got over 20, most I like, one or two less so...
I would put forward 'The Herbalist'.. 'Kew Gardens' and 'Thomas a Becket' as 3 I like a lot.. ' The Lady Gardener' is another, along with 'Desdemona'.. and how can anyone not like 'Munstead Wood'..
Incidentally, I also have Royal Jubilee, which should be marketed as a climbing rose, although I'm training it as one, as mine is 8 foot tall and going further. 'Teasing Georgia' is also a vigorous climber, so I think you will have to get these out of those pots within a couple of years.
I've tried several. I don't like roses that suffer a lot from disease and I find many do.
Crocus Rose--really lovely flowers but no scent. Gets quite a bit of mildew, in bad years but a wonderful range of shades in the flowers over the course of the season. However it got twice as large as described so had to go.
Kew Gardens--I adored the flowers and would grow again. It's got a lot of Hybrid Musk in it but is like a white Ballerina on steroids. Again got nearly twice as large as described so had to go.
The Generous Gardener, lovely in full sun, I had it in part shade, it grew enormous canes to the top of the wall and flowered where only my neighbour could see it. Nice scent.
Susan Williams-Ellis. Bought because I liked The Mayflower. Supposed to be a modestly sized shrub rose, in my garden it is trying to be a pillar rose. Like other David Austin roses its habit is to have a lot of vertical canes so it's not very successful as a pillar rose(!) But it is a lovely rose with a great scent and good repeating even late into the year, November or so. Has remained manageable in size unlike the rest. Healthy and a bit old rose-like with its greyish, Alba-like leaves. Only complaint: the flowers shatter in two days, invariably; this again is typical of Austin roses but at least no brown petals and little balling, which is good as white roses go, but isn't there a happy medium between two-day flowers and brown dead heads?
Overall conclusions so far:
1. Austin roses have a tendency to put on a lot of growth fast but the end result is a rather shapeless shrub, rather too big to be useful in a small garden.
2. Some roses that are a lot slower to develop nevertheless form much better garden shrubs in the long run, unless you have masses of space--the hybrid musk 'Felicia' is a case in point--short-jointed growth which slowly builds up but in the end the shape is lovely.
3. Austin roses are not as disease resistant as the breeder says.
4. Although flowers are often beautiful, they need to be on a well-shaped shrub with nice leaves.
I'm continuing to experiment since I think there are others likely to be worth growing but am avoiding the steroidal ones and any which are already suffering from disease before I buy them.
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teasing Georgia
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I love the old fashioned rose smell of Gertrude Jekyll and the citrussy smellof Lady Hamilton, which is unusual in a rose
...I've got over 20, most I like, one or two less so...
I would put forward 'The Herbalist'.. 'Kew Gardens' and 'Thomas a Becket' as 3 I like a lot.. ' The Lady Gardener' is another, along with 'Desdemona'.. and how can anyone not like 'Munstead Wood'..
Incidentally, I also have Royal Jubilee, which should be marketed as a climbing rose, although I'm training it as one, as mine is 8 foot tall and going further. 'Teasing Georgia' is also a vigorous climber, so I think you will have to get these out of those pots within a couple of years.
'The Herbalist'
'Thomas a Becket'
'Kew Gardens'
'Munstead Wood'
I have
Mortimer Sackler (My Avatar and my favourite. Thornless and a lovely perfume, great over an arch)
Munstead Wood
Gertrude Jekyll
Molineaux
Claire Austin
Golden Beauty
Mayflower
Don't have a photo
Pauls Noel
Susan Williams Ellis
Don't have a photo
Not a huge fan of David Austin roses and only grow three.
Gertrude Jekyll for its fragrance. holds up well to the weather. Nice clear pink .
Graham Thomas an excellent golden yellow rose, vigourous , not too keen about the scent, but does well in the rain. quite healthy.
The pilgrim, another yellow, only had it for 18 months and too early to tell if I'll keep it. Flowers too heavy when wet and scent weak.
I've tried several. I don't like roses that suffer a lot from disease and I find many do.
Crocus Rose--really lovely flowers but no scent. Gets quite a bit of mildew, in bad years but a wonderful range of shades in the flowers over the course of the season. However it got twice as large as described so had to go.
Kew Gardens--I adored the flowers and would grow again. It's got a lot of Hybrid Musk in it but is like a white Ballerina on steroids. Again got nearly twice as large as described so had to go.
The Generous Gardener, lovely in full sun, I had it in part shade, it grew enormous canes to the top of the wall and flowered where only my neighbour could see it. Nice scent.
Susan Williams-Ellis. Bought because I liked The Mayflower. Supposed to be a modestly sized shrub rose, in my garden it is trying to be a pillar rose. Like other David Austin roses its habit is to have a lot of vertical canes so it's not very successful as a pillar rose(!) But it is a lovely rose with a great scent and good repeating even late into the year, November or so. Has remained manageable in size unlike the rest. Healthy and a bit old rose-like with its greyish, Alba-like leaves. Only complaint: the flowers shatter in two days, invariably; this again is typical of Austin roses but at least no brown petals and little balling, which is good as white roses go, but isn't there a happy medium between two-day flowers and brown dead heads?
Overall conclusions so far:
1. Austin roses have a tendency to put on a lot of growth fast but the end result is a rather shapeless shrub, rather too big to be useful in a small garden.
2. Some roses that are a lot slower to develop nevertheless form much better garden shrubs in the long run, unless you have masses of space--the hybrid musk 'Felicia' is a case in point--short-jointed growth which slowly builds up but in the end the shape is lovely.
3. Austin roses are not as disease resistant as the breeder says.
4. Although flowers are often beautiful, they need to be on a well-shaped shrub with nice leaves.
I'm continuing to experiment since I think there are others likely to be worth growing but am avoiding the steroidal ones and any which are already suffering from disease before I buy them.
The Alnwick Rose is my favourite David Austin, followed by Lichfield Angel.
They are fabulous.
Still love the old moss roses the best though!