One little Melbourne garden

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Teasing Georgia
Lavender playing with Teasing Georgia, one of the most wonderful English roses in my garden. Orange blob in the top is the flower of the rose Jayne Austin and the red blob is rose Munstead Wood. White salvia grows and dances in between.
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Spring coming
An entrance to my home in Melbourne, in spring. Beautiful and 6m tall Lamarque is intertwined with Graham Thomas. Foxgloves, lots of colourful shrubs in the front; roses in the middle have not bloomed yet (so are not visible), because that part of the garden is still new.
On the left the queen in red is Tess d'Ubervilles and white (far left) is Mme Alfred Carriere. All roses are relatively young (3 yrs).


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I'll post some more in the thread later on ...
Thank you.

sTUNNING

Zvonimir, after meeting up with you in Melbourne and now seeing your roses that you had explained to me is great. Some more DA's to show possibly or maybe a cross if you have one yet. David.

What a beautiful garden!!

Very beautiful!!
I've read Teasing Georgia can tolerate hot and humid conditions to some extent. It is on my wish list.

How does the 'Lamarque' and 'Graham Thomas' all stay up there?

Simon wrote:How does the 'Lamarque' and 'Graham Thomas' all stay up there?

All climbers are tied to the wire. Lamarque, Tess d"Ubervilles and Graham Thomas climb up the balcony, so I have extra support for them. For all other climbing next to wall I've strengthen lines of 3mm thick wire every 1m above ground as the support and tied them all. Lots of work, though! Just to keep Spanish Beauty and Mayor of Casterbridge straight (facing north — not on the picture here) needs extra lines at 2m above ground: those two roses are giants, full of bloom and I think they'll reach 6m next year.

Some more images from the same garden ...

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Nancy Hayward
A photograph of the rose Nancy Hayward, in my garden. Sun light fills up the deep magenta flower cup transforming it into deep red, giving the most charming effect of a single rose.

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Enjoying the sunset
Graham Thomas English rose and white foxgloves

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Tears in rain
Jubilee Celebration English rose sprinkled with drops of rain

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Nancy is a great rose isn't she. Any else reading this that might be interested in her... I have a few spare plants I can post out this winter.

Btw, a few tips on some roses mentioned here.

Jayne Austin
If you read on the Internet, on David Austin's website, Paul Barden's website, etc. there's mention it has a strong Tea fragrance. Well, it does — sometimes — but it also has a myrrh overtone too, which frees itself up in warmer climates such as Australian. Perhaps those two gentlemen do not know that.
Thus in Australia a scent is actually a mix of both fragrances, which is beautiful. One of the parents of Jayne Austin is Tamora, a rose with a very strong myrrh scent.
Jayne Austin is almost thornless, very healthy, grows tall. Highly recommended — it's one of the best roses out there people don't know enough about. I've found it a nursery, beautiful and large, but almost abandoned (because it wasn't "famous"). If you get one, you won't regret — it's better for this climate than 99% of the HTs out there.

Munstead Wood
Several months in the flowerbed, and I love it already. It's very prickly, but it seems it behaves better than the New William Shakespeare; it doesn't shoot longer canes. Less flowers per stem, but they're nicely arranged on the rose bush. Scent is as good as NWS, a flower perhaps a bit smaller, and colour a bit deeper here in this climate.

I'll observe how it goes and tell you more in the future.
Thank you.

Thanks Ozrosarian for your comments re Jayne Austin. Will give it a try here.
Despite having culled around 20 DA's due to poor health I am starting to get a handful that are worth growing. It has been a very expensive trial to date though the beautiful bloom form and fragrance keeps me in there trying.

Ozeboy wrote:Thanks Ozrosarian for your comments re Jayne Austin. Will give it a try here.
Despite having culled around 20 DA's due to poor health I am starting to get a handful that are worth growing. It has been a very expensive trial to date though the beautiful bloom form and fragrance keeps me in there trying.

There's very little info coming from trials and from real people's gardens in Australia. And alas, that is also a problem because many people don't know how to grow roses, so I take their judgement not with a grain of salt, but with a spoonfull.
I'll post a list of English roses that, as far as I can say, are good performers in Australia and worth planting and taking care of. One important thing to remember with English roses is that they are heavy feeders. They grow so quickly they need extra boost (compared to HTs) to deliver good health and spread, luscious foliage, fragrant flowers, disease resistance, etc.
It all must come in through good food, good watering, and clever pruning.

I have my doubts (and from experience) that DAs grow well all around Auatralia.

Maybe I am lazy but the thought oif having to continuously spray and feed your roses to keep them looking good does not appeal to me this is especially soi with a large garden.

Our teas do extremely well up here with no spraying and a couple of feeds a year. The DAs we have trialled have all acted as black spot magnets and have grown lankily in the heat. I suspect that if you feed them as much as you are hinting then they would be monsters in a short time no matter how much you pruned them.

Saying that I have seen DAs growing in Victoria and Tasmania and yes they are magnificent roses but to say that is directly the fault of the growers is probably going a bit extreme.

PS We do still have a Teasing Georgia cause I like the flowers and put up with its back traints.

Balinbear, I would never go that far to recommend any English rose for Queensland. Bananas yes, but anything European-bread rose-like, nope.
Nothing wrong with some teas or Alister Clarks.
Similarly, Australian-bred roses wouldn't stand a chance in winters of the Northern hemisphere.