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| To me it is hard to say that one Austin does better than another. They seem to be all over the place when it comes to getting BS. Radio Times usually gets very bad reports on BS but I had two, and until the fall were clean. Very strong Damask fragrance and very double flowers. |
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| Hi lynette, Excellent photo of one of the more difficult to find English roses. I planted a specimen from Pickering around 2.5 years ago near a flowering plum tree. It does not suffer from black spot but rather powdery mildew here and is quite thorny. The flowers are very full and have a strong scent, as you mentioned and are often quite large, around 5 inches across. One day I looked up in the flowering plum tree and 10-12 feet high in the tree was a cluster of Radio Times blooms! Upon closer inspection, I saw that this rose was throwing very long canes. I had no idea that this rose would do this, as all the descriptions indicate that this is a medium-sized shrub. We plan to cut the canes way back and relocate this rose to grow on a rail fence within the next month. Imagine the sight of this rose with its canes trained horizontally with clusters of hugh blooms every 6 inches or so. |
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