Hopefully it will do better with time.

Alameda, hope your Emily will get better when it matures. I will get my bare root tomorrow and can't wait to plant it in the pot. After reading the comments probably it needs more sunshine in spring but needs more shade in summer.

In the pacific northwest, I would expect Emily to maintain better color. Please show your results!

Alameda, I'm looking forward to hearing how she does for you in the coming year. The fragrance sounds wonderful. How was it for you?

I forgot to smell it - will check it out today and report. With it being in a large pot, I can move it around. Hoping these first blooms, which never showed a hint of pink, will not be what they will be later. I feel like DA wouldnt have introduced a rose with a washed out "dirty kleenex" looking color......time will tell. I think DA should include a trial garden at its plant in Tyler, Tx to see how potential introductions will tolerate scalding heat and US conditions before they offer them for sale to US customers. I will say this - of all the bare root roses I potted up this spring, the DA roses have the best foliage growth and most buds. They are growing like gangbusters. To be fair, these few blooms I have seen on Emily are the very first ones. We are going through a cold spell with temps in the 40-50's so as things warm up, the color might change.

Will of course share the results when it blooms this summer. Normally bare root will bloom in June here. But the established ones will bloom much earlier. My last year's Roald Dahl is with a lot of buds now.

Though small, I saw a just opened bloom with a hint of pink. I was very pleasantly surprised to catch a really good scent on this rose! I think I see now why DA introduced it. Hoping blooms get larger......and prettier color. Think the scent is going to be a winner.

Oh, that's great that the fragrance is a winner!

Alameda, thanks for sharing! So glad about what you said about the scent. Now I'm really looking forward to that.

Hope I didnt overrate Emily - I am still waiting to see that pretty soft pink coloring in the DA catalog! Its not Fragrant Cloud but when I sniffed it, I was really pleasantly surprised. I hope you will be pleased! I will be interested to hear what others say about Emily.

My first Emily Bronte bloomed this morning and I love it! The color is very pale but it's strongly fragrant which I'm really pleased with!

There are quite a few other buds coming too!

Ann

Ann9BNCalif I am glad you like her. She is a wonderful variety.

Finally my Emily is blooming now, we might have the coldest June this year. The scent is strong and good, but Desdemona smells better for me.

So gorgeous Illia! I order this rose for next spring! She looks lovely!

Ann - that's a fabulous bloom!!! Swoon!!

Illia - love it!

Yes, Illia, I feel as Carol does--a swoonworthy bloom, so petal packed and delicately tinted. I love it, too, Diane

How did this rose do for everyone last year? Good blackspot resistance?

I am in Queens, NY. Emily Bronte had very good blackspot resistance. I dont think there was any blackspot on her. Also, The mill on the floss was very healthy.

thank you. I had no idea these two roses were healthy. They are extremely beautiful.

Emily Bronte stayed clean all season last year. It only provided one flush, though, and so hopefully that improves with age. Beautiful blooms and terrific fragrance.

Thank you. DA lists it as "best for health" but you never know. Would you say it's a fairly compact shrub?

I‘m growing it in an area with more compact varieties but it grew 5-6 feet by the end of the season. I was going to move it this spring but decided to wait one more year and see what it does. I’m sure it’s just a mistake but in the back of the DA catalog, below EBs picture it says “climbing rose”. At least I hope it’s a mistake.

This rose is BIG in England so it must get even bigger over the pond. It also doesn't flop like older Austins which is a bonus. As for disease, well, I don't even bother checking anymore. It's practically clean.

Anybody have experience with Ms Bronte in dry heat??
Carla in Sac

SY - Your Emily Bronte is beautiful!! The colors are equisite, and the buds are lovely too! What beauty!!

I agree, Carol. SY's Emily has a unique and gorgeous look. The color is so delicate, but is definitely "there". Diane

Yes, it looks like something we could eat....like sugar candy or something like that. :)

Does emily bloom well in hot and humid climates?? I ordered her last year but she died. These pictures make me want to get it again.

Id love to hear how rhis is rating for everyone after a couple years !

mine is not a good rebloomer and i just dont know if i want to keep it or not

Mineseemed to rebloom just as well as all the other 1st year bareroots I planted last year. There one difference is that the plant itself was huge by the end of the year and really does seem to want to be a climber. I'm going to need to get an obelisk for it. I tried pegging it but the canes are a little stiff and were hard to bend all the way down. I loved the blooms and fragrance.

Here it is with Madame Hardy in a vase. It's the more cream apricot one. I love having these antique blooms on a repeating bush.

I actually liked EB better than Eustacia Vye, in terms of bloom beauty and fragrance. We'll see how they both do for me in the 2nd year. EV is a much smaller plant than EB which wants to be giant.

Thank you ! your pics are so beautiful . what a lovley pairing too !

im on year 3 this year . i am so limited on space i really should give it up but what if this is the year ? 😂🤷‍♀️

These pictures make me want to move mine and give it another chance instead of throwing it away this year. hard decisions, I have 3 maybe I can save one to see what happens

Dianela, what was the problem for you and Emily? I'm debating about this one and Bathsheba, both available locally at Edwards (as you know-ha). Did EB have poor rebloom? How old is yours? The HMF description says it's shade tolerant, but I'm always very skeptical of that assertion. Diane

Librarian - such lucsious blooms! :) :)

Diane I think I planted mine on spring 2020. They are definitely not shade tolerant here and I think that is one of my problems. I planted them on hard red clay on the eastern side of my lake house and they get around 5 hours of direct sun. Not sure if it is the lack of sun or the non-amended soil but they barely grew and only gave me a few pretty blooms in the spring. She did try to rebloom but they all looked like dirty old paper due to thrips. I think besides the thrips issue all the other difficulties are probably my fault, but I mistakenly thought that 4-5 of our sun would be equivalent to 6 or more in England lol. I will post pictures of the few blooms I actually got. I do love the colors on this rose and I think after seeing this thread I may pot some of them to see what they do. My Bathsheba was planted at the same time and she never stopped blooming. She also grew 6 feet tall in a single season, which may be concerning for how large she may get in your garden.

Out of 6 plants these were all I got worthy of photographing.

Dianela - The old nursery rhyme applies....and when she was good, she was very, very good!! Oh my!! :) :)

Dianela, thanks for your answer. Your photos are gorgeous, but I agree it sounds like Bathsheba is a lot better for you. Yes, I would think that five hours of Alabama sun would be plenty to produce better results in Emily. So I'm thinking it's a soil issue. She probably wants lots of goodies. So was your wonderful Bathsheba planted in the same kind of soil? (Sorry for the questions). Where I would plant either Emily or Bathsheba has some sunlight issues, darn it. Diane

Diane yes unfortunately all my soil at that lake place is concrete like hard red clay. When wet it would get stuck on my shovel until It got so heavy I couldn't maneuver it. I placed it under a heavy stream from a gutter during a heavy rain thinking it would wash it off and came back hours later to clay still on it. Bathsheba and Flamenco rosita seem to have no issue with it, FR is own root and I can't recall if Bathsheba is grafted but I am assuming it is. I am going to go through my phone see if I have pictures of it. I also planted it in an area between a rose of Sharon and a Cana lily hoping the Cana would be dead and did not come back. The Cana came back and grew 7 feet tall and covered up poor Bathsheba, but she kept on doing her thing.

here are some oictures with labels. Planted in april 2020 and blooming by at least june. dont remember if it bloomed earlier

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This one is mid July I think

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6 feet tall by August while blooming. I need to rescue it from behind this cana. By the end of the season you couldn't see poor Bathsheba

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Dianela, that blasted indestructible cana. Many years ago, my step dad, an expert gardener, was growing some new, big plants. I asked him what they were, and he said cannas. I didn't believe him and thought he'd made up the name. They were big and bright, something new to me. Totally off topic. Thanks for posting the above photos. Before I read your label, I thought they were Emily Bronte. In your photos, Emily and Bathsheba look so much alike. Very lovely and making my decision even harder. I don't have very good soil, but yours is much worse. What a challenge, and it's so amazing that some roses do fine in the stuff. Do you live on the lake now? Thanks for all these photos and detailed answers. It seems Bathsheba is tilting more to winning me over. Diane

@Diane Brakefieldi go with Bathsheba. I have them both and both are first year plants but I have the feeling that Bathsheba will be slightly more floriferous.

Thanks, librarian. I think you've got good instincts. Is Bathsheba the larger of the two? I'm nervous about the size it might get. I will be trying to grow it as a large self supporting shrub like I do Golden Celebration and several others. Do you think that might work with Bathsheba? Do you grow Crazy Love? That's another contender for the only new rose I might get this year. If you grow CL, what do you think of it? Thanks so much. Diane

I have CL on order from HCR so it will be a tiny new one plant for me. I'm really looking forward to it! Both Bathsheba and Emily Bronte are large but EB's canes are more stiff. I think that Bathsheba is flexible enough that it would peg quite nicely (I have mine trained on a trellis) so I think it would work better as a free standing shrub than EB. EB is stiff and doesn't need support but then it's also very tall...it was very hard for me to peg so I think I'll look for an obelisk so that I can twist it around something to try to bring out more laterals.

After all that, I do love EB too and I don't think I can yet pick whether EB or Bathsheba are my favorites. Both have beautiful blooms and delicious (but different) fragrances. I just think that for what you are looking for, Diane, Bathsheba might be the better rose.

How are you guys liking this for rebloom? A friend is giving it away so there must be some reason. Maybe rebloom is it?

I think I had better rebloom last year. For whatever reason EB put more energy this year into growing even taller and larger with so many new basals after the first flush. I'm still holding on to her, but she is a giant rose that really needs a big space to climb. I love her first flush.... But we'll see what the future holds for her.

I think EB may prefer cooler climates. I grew her in my previous garden in Missouri and I didn’t see anything after the first flush, but I only had her for 2 years prior to moving (since she was first released in the US). Here in WY (zone 4b), she didn’t bloom last year, but this year she has has at least one or more blooms on each plant following the first flush.

Mine has been an Emily Brownte..

Mine just died. It seemed to be established in a large pot, but it turned black from the base. When I pulled it out, it seemed to have plenty of small hair-like roots, and nothing obviously wrong with them. I don't really know what went wrong there. It is quite hot and sunny where it was growing, but I always kept it watered. It never did bloom, by the way ... I think it set one bud and then self-amputated it.

The first year, mine only bloomed once,but grew straight up and very healthy. It wants to be tall, but unlike many Austins, it does not need to be staked. No flopping, just grows straight up. Then, in its second year, I moved it to a NE exposure from a SW exposure, to a cooler, wetter, shadier part of the garden, where it had more space but soil definitely quite hard. And I got 4 flushes last summer, with a final small one rather late in the fall. Definite spacing between flushes, and it is not a continuous bloomer (so far). When the temps got up to the mid-high 90s, which is unusual for here, the buds were duds, shrivelled and died. So I don't think it likes extreme heat. Mine is on laxa (Western Europe). The first flush in early spring was the most impressive. However, the scent is so very lovely, that I now have a second one. Would be great for a hedge.

Rose Paris - I've ordered one and I'm so happy to hear that you bought another one for the scent. Fragrance to me is super important...so that's great to hear.