This spring I am getting 2 Lady of Shallot and Molineux. Still considering Golden Celebration.

I asked for gift cards so I have a good bunch coming.

Olivia , desdemona , ancient mariner Bathsheba , roald Dahl , wedgewood, spirit of freedom, generous gardener , lark ascending, Anne Boleyn and Charles Renee McIntosh.

I'm so excited for all of them !

I believe marlorena on the antique rose forum has both that you ask about cutting? Maybe shoot her a message or look up her thread . :)

One of my favorite threads. Thanks for starting this Karen. I like my roses for cuttings, so here are my new DA roses this year from Regan and DA in Texas. Helen

Bathsheba

Boscobel

Brother Cadfael

Heathcliff

Roald Dahl

Spirit of Freedom x 2

The Pilgrim

Tranquility

I'm getting Scepter'd Isle, Charles Darwin and St. Cecilia.

I love my Bishop's Castle and Jubilee Celebration the best of my Austins.

Carol

Jubilee Celebration, Lady Emma Hamilton, Tamora, Mary, young lycidas, and Queen Nefertiti. Have Abe, and Lady of Shallot already.

Molineux

Kristine, I don't think you can go wrong with those choices. I do love LoS. I also grow both Molineux and Golden Celebration. For some reason, GC does better for me than Molineux.

Thanks Lilyfinch. I did see some pics of Bathsheba from Marlorena on Helpmefind and they are beautiful. They are one of the reason I am getting this rose eventhough it is a climber. I am also wondering if I should add Ancient Mariner after seeing gorgeous photos from Marlorena.

Helen, I am looking forward to see your photos of them. Your rose photography is amazing. I really enjoy seeing them from the posts that you made in the past.

Carol, so glad to hear that BC does well for you. Will you be growing the new roses in pots?

witchygirrl, great selection. Jubilee Celebration smells so good! Can I ask how you like your Abe? Is he a good performer for you?

Holy moly, I forgot Young Lycidas .I am most excited about this one. So excited that I forgot all about it lol

Thank you Karen. There is something about DA roses that they are just breathtaking in photos.

I joined the rose growers’ world liking hybrid teas for cut flowers. However I started to notice that some hybrid teas don’t look their best after the flowers are fully opened, that steered me toward the looks of English and old garden roses with cabbage look. And I skip the once bloomers no matter how gorgeous they look because in that case I can only cut the roses once a year. I’m so looking forward to see the blooms of Spirit of Freedom in person because of its gorgeous cabbage look and will share their photos here :) Helen

Karen - yes, in pots. I so agree!! Jubilee Celebration's fragrance is top-notch and swoon worthy!!

Bayarea_girl - I agree about the once bloomers....since all of my roses are grown in pots...I don't want a once bloomer in a pot.

Carol

Dave - I love your SoF!!! It's a lovely lilac color!!! Wow!! How is the fragrance?

Carol

Wow, that is a gorgeous photo of Spirit of Freedom. Thanks Dave. I ordered mine from DA Texas and can’t wait when they will be here. I received great bare root roses from DA Texas last year. I plan to have my 2 SoF go over an arbor. Now if I could have a SoF in lavender color, I promise I won’t buy any more roses for one year, LOL.

Carol, many times after putting a beautiful cabbage looking rose in a shopping cart, I saw the once bloomer text and had to remove it from the shopping cart :) Helen

I love the fragrance but it’s hard to describe it. If SoF has a weakness it is that a few blooms ball each spring and it has thorny, stiff canes - a combination of closely spaced medium and small prickles - it’s appellation of AUSbite is fitting. But these, to me, are trivial considering it is healthy and fragrant lilac-pink cupped blooms. It will let ok awesome on your arbor, bayarea_girl.

I agree - DA sends fantastic bareroots every year.

Evelyn and Cressida.

I've always wanted to see what Cressida looks like. Apparently this rose has gigantic blooms and strong myrth fragrance. I saw a photo of it climbing on an arch and it looks nice! My only concern is the thorns - they look monsterous on photos!

Evelyn has always been my favorite DA rose despite growing her 3-4 attempts. I just love the flower form and many petals.

Thankfully I'm not too keen on the newer release roses. Which means I can try out Versignity (Tantau) to replace my stingly, floopy Tea Clipper rose.

I didn’t know SoF is thorny. My arbor has some traffic so I did some research before ordering this rose. From this pic it seems like it doen’t look thorny until you mentioned it http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.245405 . I will give this rose a try at this location. It it is too thorny then I will move it to somewhere else. Helen

Probably none, unless my local garden center stocks spirit of freedom again. Otherwise, I've pretty much entirely moved on to kordes and OGRs for their disease resistance. As much as a adore some of the Austins, I'm getting too old to bother spraying as much as they need it to avoid blackspot here on the CT shoreline.

Thank you Dave for your recommendations! I think I will be adding Spirit of Freedom to my order. Wow, what a beautiful color and form Spirit of Freedom has.

Karen I planted Abe in fall, from a 2gal ARE container. He bloomed after I planted him, and it was love immediately. Just hoping he survives now. I was not expecting these temps. I guess I got a little too used to South Carolina.

Helen - yes, they're so beautiful!!

Good for you who are buying this rose...lots of nice pictures for us in the summer.

Carol

I had noooooooooooooooo intention of buying any Austins this year, but the deal at Burpee's was too good to pass up. I got four bare root for $69 including shipping: Molineux (a RRV replacement), Abe Darby (my second), Lady of Shalott, and (at long last) Munstead Wood.

John

Good ones. I sure love my Munsteads

I'm getting Lady of Shalott (from ARE), Tranquillity and Royal Jubilee (from Heirloom). I've got The Pilgrim, Graham Thomas, and Golden Celebration, but they were new last year. GT did give me blooms though.

Nice choices

I'm not adding anything new to my DA collection.

Well, so far I have added Charlotte and another Munstead Wood. I hope to finalize on my order with DA Roses in Texas soon.

ac91z6, I think those are great choices too. Though I don't personally grow Royal Jubilee, I have seen pics of it and it is really beautiful. It is supposed to be as tall as Lady of Shalott, right?

Just ordering two Austins this year--replacements (RRD): Scepter'd Isle and Molineux. Both are indispensable!

But if I had the space, time, and energy, I'd sure like to also order Ancient Mariner and Anne Boleyn, but no such luck. : (

I just drool as I read over all your order lists!

Kate

I have a lot of Austins since they really seem to like my zone, so I'm branching out beyond the usual ones to more unusual or "discontinued" Austins for the most part. I did the Burpee order for The Poet's Wife, James Galway and Lichfield Angel, then I have the following others coming:

Hortico: Admired Mirenda, Belle Story, Cressida, Sophy's Rose, St. Swithun, The Reeve

HIgh Country Roses: Graham Thomas (2nd try)

Roses Unlimited: Jubilee Celebration (2nd try), Molineux (2nd try, graft failed on previous one), Munstead (one of the few roses that I have and really want two of), Prospero (2nd try), Strawberry Hill (2nd try), Tea Clipper (2nd try), The Lark Ascending, The Shepherdess, William Morris, Wollerton Old Hall

I usually buy a few discontinued Austins from Linda Loe at Long Ago Roses, and I have my eye on replacing Charles Rennie MacIntosh, Leander, The Pilgrim and Brother Cadfael, and ordering Mary Magdalene, Immortal Juno, and asking if she has Cymbaline, Chaucer, Young Lycidias, Huntington Rose and Pegasus. I haven't made that order yet.

Cynthia

I've become very cautious with the new Austins. I want to see them growing in my climate before I commit. So many of them turn into stingy garden-eating monsters here. So as pretty as those new pictures can be...I'll wait.