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Yellow Austins: Commentary from my garden

Teasing Georgia, Graham Thomas, and the Poet’s Wife.


Teasing Georgia is an unrivaled favorite in my garden. She has a lovely light caramel coloring, somewhat like créme brûlée, and is never without flowers. Floriferous, healthy, vigorous performance in a half day of sun. She went from a small band to a 10 foot tall blooming monster covering an arbor in less than two years. I will never be without her.


Graham Thomas is still a baby. He is a deeper golden yellow than TG, but very similar to my eye. So far the plant is not half as healthy, but I’ll give him some time as his blooms are magnificent. I hope he matures into a shrub like I have seen in photos.


the Poet’s Wife is a happy cheerful clear yellow, like lemon juice. Very healthy, vigorous, and loaded with buds. New to me

last year, but so far her performance has been impressive. Looking forward to seeing how she goes this year!


(TG top center bloom and far right front. GT far left. TPW center and back right)



Comments (14)

  • 6 years ago

    Absolutely beautiful dilly ! I love teasing Georgia, glad it’s doing so well for you . I would really love to try it again . I tried poets wife this spring , so far so good . They are all beautiful yellows !

  • 6 years ago

    Thank you for showing them together. They are lovely. It reminds me of the time I was trying to pick out yellow paint for my kitchen...yellows can be tricky and it helped so much to have all those swatches laid out next to each other.

  • 6 years ago

    Nice bouquet! I have no experience with Teasing Georgia, but from what I have seen of it, it is pretty. Graham Thomas is not reliably winter-hardy here. It does not take to late, hard freezes at all, but it is pretty also. The Poet's Wife is also a good one for a large pot. It has a good color and a lemon fragrance almost like the hybrid tea Lemon Spice. Mine is limping along. It doesn't care for late freezes either, but at least it appears to be alive. Do you have room for Golden Celebration? It would make a good addition to your collection. Its color is gorgeous.

  • 6 years ago

    I have 2 new TG's that are framing my driveway entrance and both are tall already, with very clean foliage. They are setting buds now.


    Thanks for showing these comparisons.

  • 6 years ago

    Oh jc I hope you’ll share photos

  • 6 years ago

    Dilly, those different shades are sublime together, and the blooms are all so lush and perfect. Sheila, I gasped when I enlarged your photo. Wow!

    Dillybeansown (6b in the Ozarks) thanked ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
  • 6 years ago



    My Teasing Georgias are the first ones in a line of plantings that go partway down the driveway to the road.


    Not sure why I continually do this but everything is planted way too close to the driveway.

    ill get the dense hedge I wanted, i guess

  • 6 years ago

    Lily, I hope the Poet‘s Wife does beautifully for you!


    the_bustopher, Golden Celebration is definitely on my list to try! It’s a beauty!


    Sheila, that’s a gorgeous photo!!! I love your garden!


    Ingrid, thank you! It has been a perfect year for roses here. TG is really coming into her own.


    Jc, that will look amazing once it all fills out!!

  • 6 years ago

    Dilly - I love your description of TG's color as creme brulee....that would make a great name for a rose IMHO. :) Lovely pictures! Are you managing to get enough sleep with your wee one?



  • 6 years ago
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    Dilly, what a gorgeous buttery-gold bouquet!

    Bustopher took the words out of my mouth. Have you tried Golden Celebration? It may be my favorite yellow Austin. Carol

  • 6 years ago

    A new one for me Vanessa Bell

  • 6 years ago

    I'd choose Vanessa Bell for the name alone! Carol

  • 6 years ago

    I have a Golden Celebration, and I really like it. It is beginning to bloom now. I was hoping to get a couple of flowers off of it and put them with a couple of Munstead Woods, but my MWs are looking rather poor this spring. They are quite dark this time. They started blooming before I could get fertilizer out. I didn't prune much or fertilize because of our weird weather patterns. It has been up and down wildly. For instance, April 10th it was 88 degrees here. Two days later on April 12th it was between 25 and 30 degrees. It has been doing this repeatedly from March to early May so I have just waited and not tried to provoke all kinds of new growth only to get froze. Perhaps as the season goes on I can get a bouquet together to see how it looks. I also have that new climber Golden Opportunity, and It has a flower on it. It is also a gold like Golden Celebration, but the form is different. I am going to watch it to see how it does. I am having some issues with my cameras because they appear to have been set up for Windows or Mac systems. I am using Linux, so some things don't work quite the same way, and I am having some difficulty. However, I will have to see if I can get it all to work and get some pictures.

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