Congratulations! Teasing Georgia is a wonderful first rose. She is low maintenance and healthy. Any purple or lavender clematis would look amazing. White will also be pretty and delicate. I have several teasing Georgia and grow it with Warsaw Nike and Etoile Violette. I also grow crown Princess Margareta with Margot Koster and the pink lavender looks nice. Roguchi would probably look spectacular.

@dianela7analabama Thank you so much. You give me much needed confidence. I am a little disappointed as I was going to plant it today, but now we have another little cold front going through today/tonight. So alas, I will have to wait until next week I guess.

I will research those clematis - thank you!

how do i know if it is grafted? i bought from local nursery so not a bare root from DA direct. Doesnt say on tags... just says grown in Tyler, TX - bred by DA

I have 3 own root Teasing Georgias from David Austin also. Could you take a picture of what yours look like? Some times even in a pot you can tell it is grafted and potted because of the thick looking canes. My own roots were a lot thinner and smaller when I first got them. It will not matter grafted or not that rose is large and tough. I also just checked and I have one planted with jackmannii superba. I agree with Erasmus that Teasing Georgia just goes well with every color.

ok, so I am ready to plant my rose. I am fighting a little bunny rabbit(s)... do I need to put a fence around the rose until it gets bigger? or forever maybe? The rabbit(s) ate my azaleas to the ground over the winter.

@dianela7analabama

A fence around the rose would help with a rabbit problem.

@Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR does it have to have the fence there forever? or just until the rose is big? why aren't they bothered by the thorns?

I think just cage until the rose is larger. I agree that I would be deterred by thorns but animals don't seem bothered somehow.

I agree with Sheila about a fence or cage around the rose for the time being. If the problem is indeed bunnies, garlic powder has worked in the past for me. But it was on perennials and cosmos that I used it, not roses. However, other critters love roses--gophers (in the West), deer, and voles to name a few. Diane

I put down some garlic concoction this week. hope it helps. Ok, I will try a cage around the rose. I just meant a wire fence/cage, so hope that works. We are urban, so haven't had a problem with deer yet. They live in the park and must have enough to eat over there. I don't know if we have voles... I guess I will find out. My doggie recently passed away so I am wondering if that has increased the critter problem. My biggest concern (other than the bunny) is the rose rosette disease.

I'm sorry about your doggie, and if he was outside much, I'm sure he deterred pesty animals. Kitties are the terror of voles and mice, and probably deter rabbits. Diane

the canes seem to be very nice and thick so possibly a grafted rose that has been potted. I am honestly not very experienced. I think your plant will do fantastic. Any small fence or cage will help with the bunnies. I have many in my yard and once the roses get tall enough it is actually funny seeing the rabbits eating some of the lower blooms like if they were cupcakes. I remember seeing one eating some of Roald Dahl blooms and it looked like he/she were eating a peach. At that point their damage is minimal. On the other hand if you have clematises do place a cage over them permanently because otherwise the rabbits will come and cut their stems at ground level.

good to know, thanks! I am hoping to find a clematis to put with the rose, so that is really helpful information. I was so shocked when i found my azaleas eaten to the ground. I had no idea that they could/would do that. At first I thought it was deer, but then the tell tale signs of rabbit were present....