One of My favourite DAs

'Pegasus'

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I like it too , I have a bush or 2 [or 3] and I like it for , for , for ......
bugger it , I like it because it's nice .

I'm interested in what you ... as to why you .....
like it Simon .

cheers. Rosalie

Lets just say DA's are one of my favourites. For Pegasus, the colour does it for me and the shape of the flower and petals.

I like it for a number of reasons... some of them tangible... some of them sentimental... some of them decadent

It was the first Austin I grew in the first house I bought way back in my early 20's... it grew very differently near Newcastle than it did down here. It's much better behaved down here than up there where it grew more like a climber.

It makes enormous bunches of flowers that have a beautiful colour that seem to glow in the garden. It doesn't repeat very well but I kinda like a seasonal garden.

It works well with perennials.

In a medium blackspot year (not like this year.. on a scale of 1 - 10, where 1 is least and 10 the most, this year is a 20), it is healthy. This year it is doing its best to increase the blackspot population in my garden

It is an excellent seed parent. Every flower will form a hip though the seeds take a long time to germinate (>1 year).

Down here it is a compact shrub of restrained proportions and builds slowly without making Austin-snake-branches.

It's one of my plant and forget roses. All I do is dead head it if I'm not collecting hips.

It has a lovely tea scent.

I think it will go well with more healthy roses to make good roses for Australia.

That's about it

Ah Simon, your opening sentence sounds like something I would say
I too grew Pegasus in my previous garden and like you say, it grew like a climber and I love it, not only for its abundant blooms and its name, but it so reminded me of Buff Beauty which I love as well!

Speaking of BB, am growing him over my garage here. This plant is the first cutting of a climbing rose I was ever given, back in 1990. It had lived in a large tub and the cutting never quite made it in the ground at DP. So it survived ever so tamed in a tub and I was able to bring it here. I wasn't sure of its name back then and strangely enough, bought another BB which I planted in the ground and it just engulfed the back fence. Now this BB is starting to climb over an old 1940s shed along with a Ned Kelly passionfruit, a Red Pierre, Clg Lady Hillingdon and Renae. I am sure that together this combination will swallow the structure so that I don't have to worry about renewing it in my lifetime. Oh, a friend gave me a Burgundy Iceberg as a housewarming, so it too is growing along the garage. I like the colour of this rose. Here is a pic of the garage which was taken a week or so back.
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Awesome. I'd rather look at your old shed being swallowed by roses than the neighbours palm trees any day.

I love Buff Beauty too. I grow it in memory of my mum and the trials and tribulations she had getting hers established in the sandy soils of Perth. In fact I think her first couple of attempts died but she eventually got one going that turned into a shed swallower . Used to bite you when you went out to the clothesline too

Your back yard is soon going to be as full and beautiful as the front garden.


cheers. Rosalie