Autumn Teas

Our Teas (and others) are having a somewhat extended Autumn Flush this year. Some photos taken this morning

Comtess de Larbathe just keeps on going
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Bon Seliene with similar coloured Camellias behind
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Mme Lambard. This plant is 2.5 metres high and about 5 metres diameter
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Mrs Graham Hart. One of the babies from Bruce last year that are spreading out across the top of a pergola
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Mrs B R Cant is another one of our consistent performers.
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Mons Tillier just keeps on going
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Squatters Dream are also performing well at present
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Looks like a perfect setting for a high tea arvo - bet the scent is heavenly!

Squatters Dream is a lovely one. I've got a couple in here and really like them.
Barbara B

Balinbear - I'm truly truly envious. Makes me nostalgic for all the teas I used to grow. Congratulationsa on an absolutely breathtaking garden.

Larry

Summer is ended though "Papilon" is starting put out its winter flowers

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It does still have some of its "summer" flowers though

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Larry

Thanks. In our climate there is no better.

Rita

The farmer's wife up behind our place says that she loves it when Comtesse is in flower. She tells me she can smell them up at her house (100metres up the hill) when the south easter is blowing.

Its funny though. As they are nearlly always in flower, we are used to them and while we can smell the perfume we don't really notice it. Someone commented on the perfume from the ones we have near our driveway but I thought the perfume from the sasanqua camellias was stronger.

Larry

A bit of gallery of our plants is on

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Some (mainly the DAs)Are not here anymore and there are others added but I have to work out my password to add photos.

Generally we grow teas, chinas, noisettes and hybrid musks and they love our climate.

Hi Balinbear,
I loved the tour of your garden.
Don't you prune the roses? Some of them look very large.
Barbara B

Barbara

Our garden is large and as some teas resent pruning we don't do a lot.

Some are ok to prune as you do other roses but its a job I'd rather not do so we don't.

Yes the teas grow large and I could not recomend many of them (some are ok) for a small garden. One Marie Van Houtte was 7 metes diameter and 2.5 metres high. It suffered a bit in a storm so we cut it back a bit and it is not as large but growing ok.

If you try to prune some of them too hard they will simply turn up their toes. We lost a Rozette de Lizzy a couple of months ago because it just got a bit out of control. In the past they have come back (slowly) but this time it sent up new shoots but then passed away.

I good thing is most of them grow from cuttings. We would have 60 or so Comm. de Labarthe but have only purchased a couple over the years. Actually this afternoon Lee (wife) and I were deciding on how to fix up a bit of the garden and we decided that we needed 14 of them to line a pathway (to replace some DA Heritage that have not done all that well) so we went up to the stockpile and found we had 20-25 potted up ready to go. Sure saves a lot of money.

This past week I pruned Mutabilis so we can get to the letterbox. Then I reduced two General Gallienis and Archiduc Joseph from ladder height down to shoulder height. The cuttings filled our 8 by 5 golf buggy trailer and it was time to head to the tip! They look scary now but just think what their comeback will be like!
I was a little more gentle on D de Brabant and Sunn y South. But next I took our my fury on the Bloomfield Abundance that had insisted on climbing up the Kurrajong tree. The noisy miner birds did not approve of all this. I have admitted failure with the tea rose, Mrs Reynolds Hole and she hardly grew or flowered here. Bonita

Wow, they're giants. I've just ordered some, including Marie van Houtte and Rosette Delizy (sp). I guess I'll need to rethink where to put them. I'd planned to put them in a bed with hybrid teas. Maybe I'll find a spot in the border plantings instead.
Barbara B

Bonita

Its funny how Teas are. Our General Gallieni (been a great autumn for flowers as well) plants resent prunning but have never grown higher than 1 metre so we just keep them tidy. We had a large Mrs Reynolds Hole that just up and died a couple of years ago but it was a bit of a strange bush. We have a new one as I gave all my cutting grown ones away.

We also have trouble with Catherine Mermet and her white form The Bride. They simply refuse to grow at our place and only last a couple of years before dying. May not like the humidity I am not sure. Our soil is very acidic so maybe she is a bit more sensitive than the others.

Best time of the year for Teas I reckon. The colours are so rich and they last so long. Very envious of your hedges of the Comtesse, Gary. M. Tillier will get the chainsaw this winter, heading for 3 metres. Only takes a year to bounce back (no water or fertilizer either!)

Dave, how old is M. Tillier and is it cutting/own root, thanks David.

Over 15 years old, Dave. I have about 10 of them in the garden I look after. Probably grafted, but would be own root by now. This is their second lopping in 5 years.

Absolutely stunning, Dave ! I can't see the first two photos though, maybe next time. The other photos are beautiful and lush.
This has been a good post to read.
Hey Larry, you can have your roses back if like ? I have just been looking after them for you. I lost some but the others have done alright.

Balinbear
Do you know the history of Mrs Graham Hart? I suspect she was one the family of Brisbans solicitors of the old law firm - Flower and Hart and may have lived at Indooroopilly. I was working in a school on the southside of Brisbane some years ago and as was always my practice, I had roses on my desk and around the admin block. A lady came in and said she knew there was a rose called Mrs Graham Hart and that she was related to this person. I had forgotten about this until I saw your picture. What is the parentage and would it grow well here in Toowoomba? Bonita

Bonita

I am not sure of the origin of the name. Graham Lloyd Hart established his legal practice in Brisbane in 1872. Afred Williams breed the roase in 1900 which is round the time Alfred and his wife would have become well known in Brisbane.

I first saw the rose in New Farm Park on one of the pergolas in the heritage rose sction. Leonie Kerney grows it and her rose was the origin of our plants. We have had ours in the ground for about six months and it is growing well.

regrds Gary

Just got my new camera - in an iPod G4. I also need the HD video it has, for teaching. Don't think it's as sharp as my old Canon, but here goes: M. Tillier and Salvia iodanthe, which grows through it. The colours are glorious at this time of the year (better than the pic):
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Some of the Teas are still going strong though the weather has turned cold (for here anyway).

Mme Lombard has never looked so good.

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Very nice, Gary. We haven't had a decent frost yet and Comtesse de Labarthe is covered in blooms. They last forever in the cool winter days - like an English spring.

Dave

Yes our 60 or so Comtesse de Labarthe are still flowering away. They actually seem to have their rest in the middle of summer as quite often there will be few flowers on them. They seem to prefer Autumn, winter and spring.