So pretty! I picked out Medallion right away before I read your description, love that rose! They look amazing with the daisy!

So beautiful, love that you showed the different angles.

Lovely arrangement, beautiful roses.

Totally gorgeous. Belle Story is some soft and elegant. Evelyn is sooooo gorgeous. I sooooo hope mines a better bloomer next year or I'll have to move her to a better spot. I manage to get a few roses every few days but I'm sure in a couple more weeks they will be totally gone so please keep sharing all your beautiful roses!!!

So delicate and yumm

Oh that was lovely!! I agree with you, Belle Story is really striking! I've been a double, more petals please kind of gal. But Belle Story makes me think a bit differently on the subject!

Carol

i love your roses. They look terrific. I have Medallion. It is one of my favorite roses. I just love how large the blossom gets. Sometimes it looks almost like a fake rose... but a piece of art made of porcelin (sp).... I was hoping to get some of the Austins from Cool roses. Last summer at the sale, Geoff said he would have Jude and I was waiting impatiently, but I heard from someone that he is one of the growers that won't be budding on Austins because of Austins prices. I am sad. I really wanted to increase my austin list. I lost my Sharifa Asman on own root. It was my favorite. She just kept dwindling. I dug her out and put her in a pot, but she never made it. ANyway, I love your roses.

Oh no. Don't tell me that. We have so few options for Austin roses on Fortuniana as it is. And I find that they grow better here than most hybrid Teas. I have a Jude from Cool Roses and its been a rather sparse grower, but I recently moved her to a more sunny location and am hoping for the best. I recently ordered 4 from K&M and two were the wrong variety so I'm super sad. This is why I've started to experiment with grafting on fortuniana myself. Its just too difficult to get the varieties you really want on fortuniana. Its not easy though, I've only been able to do it once and it was with a Queen Of Sweden rose which is currently 6 inches tall, but doing ok in my rose bed.I've had many on Dr.H but few have lasted more than 2 years. They did horribly in the ground, so I dug them all up and potted them. The ones I have in pots are Jubilee Celebration, Princess Alexandra of Kent, Boscobal, and Belle Story (love this one). I lost Lady Emma Hamilton and Molineux. I left Gentle Hermione and Geoff Hamilton in the ground and so far they are growing very slowly and rather pathetically. I think I might pot them up after all. They do much better in pots when on Dr. H. I also have a Queen Of Sweeden and Wildeve in the ground and they are pathetic as well. I might dig them up too. In pots I also have Darcy Bussel which I've had for 3 years and its perform great, but its just starting to decline and she may not last much longer. I'm hoping the cooler weather will revive her. I also have a new Claire Austin own root in a pot and she's happy as can be, although her blooms are small. And an Intrigue which is doing ok from Wayside's sale last spring.

After making a rose bed and having it fail miserably with Dr. H roses, I ordered 4 grafted ones from K&M. I ordered Jubilee Celebration (love this one too), Christopher Marlowe, Huntington Rose and Scepter D'isle. I GOT Huntington and Scepter but was sent a mystery peach one in place of CM which I suspect is Ambridge Rose and a medium pink one which I thought was Princess Alexandra of Kent, but now I'm not sure as that rose is not listed on their site (hence this entire thread). Either way all 4 have done great.

In this bed I also have Evelyn (on fort, from Cool Roses) and Jude the Obscure (ditto) as well as the tiny grafted Queen of Sweden) and an own root Cherry Parfait which seems to be doing ok. My Evelyn is a gangly octopus grower, but she blooms a ton and they are huge so I dont care how bad her growth habits are. I grow her as a climber on an 8 foot fence and although she's more cane than leaf, she blooms alot.

I have a wollerton Old Hall on Dr. H which is actually in the ground and actually doing well. Its the only one that has done well for me on Dr.H in the ground (well, that and Don Juan climber (not an austin)).

I also have Pat Austin on Fort which is doing great and pumps out blooms almost constantly and The Shepherdess which is even more proficient at blooming and super happy. Its because of these two that I decided to get more Austins on Fort as they both do so well for me. Both were from Cool Roses summer sale not last june but the year before.

I also have Heritage own root and so far so good. Its been about a year and growing slowly but still growing and blooming. I also have “Josephine Land”, which is grafted on Fort and I was told is actually just heritage renamed by Nelson's. I don't know how they can do that, but having both plants, I can tell you they are extremely similar. I do suspect they may be the same rose. If you can get your hands on it Sharon, I think you'd love it. I like it so much I recently got another one from Pops and its going strong.

I also have Tamora on Fort from Nelsons' and I also highly recommend it. It black spots, if you don't spray it but then bounces back quickly.

Anyways, sorry for the dictionary of a post, but I'm very passionate about my Austins and I just love them to death. I'm also a big fan of the delbards or pretty much any romantica style rose. If you don't have Dames De Chennonceau Sharon, you should get it. Its my absolute favorite rose that and Evelyn. Both available at Cool Roses (at least last time I was there).

SoFL when you posted the sale at Cools last summer, I thought I would come home with some of the Austins on their website. I had spent hours researching which ones I wanted... then they didn't have any.... I bought a few others which I love, but I really wanted some Austins.... I have been drooling with anticipation on getting Jude, now I am afraid my Austin garden may be nixed in the bud. I am a little paranoid in ordering from KandM just because you didn't get the ones you ordered.... I am sure it was a mistake and you seem gracious of not holding it against them, but if I didn't/don't get an Austin, I might as well support locally.....

Maybe I can get cuttings from you :) if any of them are off list of patents. I don't know what I could trade, because most of the ones I have you seem to already have.... and of course I doubt if I could root it for you anyway.

Anyway how is your fortuanian budding going? Where did you get your source of fortuanani..... I had a couple of suckers on my plants and I tried to root them for the very reason you stated that we are limited on our varieties.... but alas I am sad to say my cuttings and rootings skills are still seriously lacking...

Good Luck

Hi Sharon,
I would love to share cuttings with you!

Have you had much luck with rooting? If not I can share with you my method and you can give it a shot. I have like an 80% success rate. Some are much easier to root than others.

I did a rose exchange via Garden Web not too long ago with a great couple in California and they sent me TONS of cuttings. A lot of which rooted well for me. I sent them cuttings back but apparently none of mine rooted well for them. I think I packed them in too moist paper towels and they all rotted on them. I felt bad but I'm going to send them a new package next time I prune.

I have a well rooted Pink Traviata you can have if you are interested. Its Austin-like in shape and form. They sent me like 6-7 cuttings and 4 rooted well and I don't have the room for all 4.

If you'd like you can send me your email via Houzz and I can send you my master list of roses so you can choose which ones you'd like. I'll update it now since I've gotten quite a few new roses recently from Pops and stuff.

Not all the roses on my list are large enough to take good cuttings from, but I'll try my best to get you what I can. Maybe you can pick them up when they're ready. I live not too far from Pop's nursery. Or I can mail them to you if the drive is too far for you.

Oh, also, I got my fortuniana cuttings from UC Davis. Its kind of a long process and I lost a lot of the cuttings to rot (I wasn't very good at rooting back then) but I did manage to have success with one.

Yes. I think I would love to share! How do I send you my email without posting it public on the forumn?

I think if you "follow" me on Houzz we can private message each other. Although I'm not certain how it works. I just followed you and tired to message you and it gave me an error. Something about separating email addresses with a comma, but i only put one email address so I'm a little confused.