http://freshdirt.sunset.com/2011/06/david-austin-roses-cheat-sheet-for -california.html

This is the list of DA's I grow in my yard.

Abraham Darby: SPed, too much rust, too weak.

Crown Princess Margarita: Too large and few rebloom. Already Gone. Might have improved with age, too late.

Eglantyne: Too large and few re-bloom. Wonderful smell and beautiful spring flush. Diseased foliage. It is gone too.

Glamis Castle: I have two of them. I moved them into pots. I am considering them Sped.

Falstaff: Beautiful flowers when and if it blooms. Too tall and lanky. I am attempting to under plant it with RdR.

Golden Celebration: After 5 years, this own root is taking off. Glad that I did not Sped it. Big flowers, smell good, repeat could be better.

Christopher Marlow: I have 4 of them. They grow on 5' tall obelisks. Always in bloom and so cheerful. Smell great.

Jubilee Celebration: I have 4 of them in different spots. The one in full sun does the best. Mannerly and compact. Repeat is very good. I think it is a better version of AD with minor color variation; less yellow, more cooler pink.

DAs planted this year:

Prospero: I planted two of them per Jeri's recommendation.

WS2K: It is grafted from DA. It is virused.

DAs in Transit:

Tamora
Carding Mill: Own root
Princess Alexandra of Kent: Own root
Lady Emma Hamilton
Munstead Wood: Own root

FJ

'Tamora' is great here, 'Lady Emma Hamilton' pretty good. 'Molineux' is very, very good, a real bloom machine. 'Lichfield Angel' is stingy, so far.

But California is a big state, and Sunset 15 is quite different than 23.