Oh my, Sara... gorgeous blooms. My Darcey Bussell will arrive next month. If it looks even close to either images of yours... I will be happy:)

Wow, love the winter coloring!

Sara-Ann, you are lucky to still have blooms and nice blooms.

Love the dark colour.

Thank you everyone, and thank you Kate for the explanation on Some Austins taking longer to begin blooming more. I look forward to the day mine have lots of beautiful blooms like yours!

And keep in mind, Sara, that the only reason you don't see my roses when they are not in bloom is because I rarely take pictures of them unless they are full of blooms!

: )

Kate

Here there was a number of flowers but they didn't smell much. And leaf retention was terrible, among multiple other newly planted roses of other kinds - none of which were so spotty.

Spotty Bussell will not be a keeper for me.