How nice Jerome. They know you'll give it a good home. I planted one last fall. It's doing very well. We'll see how big it gets.

Thank you again, Jerome. It's so fun to talk to you, with all your enthusiasm for old roses. Buford, Tea Clipper has huge flowers and makes a great bouquet. The bush is excellent healthwise and has only a few thorns. I'm short on space so I refer to Jerome who has tons of it. His roses are so breathtaking!

Stingy beyond belief. Spectacular flowers, though, so if you have lots of room, why not?

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thats a very pretty rose. I was thinking it is too bad it is a "stingy" bloomer, as it is a great color, If someone could cross it with a Tea rose, such as "Clementina Carbonieri" it might produce a shapely, colorful and floriferous rosebush.
I've often thought it is too bad Mr. Austin has said in an interview that he doesn't like Tea roses...sigh.. I do wish he would breed Tea roses, because he is very talented.
A "tea clipper" was a type of British ship used to bring tea from China. I've been re-reading the Patrick O'Brian series of books about naval warfare in the early 1800's and all things naval have been on my mind lately.

Lux.

I'll plant it where it can get really large (like Teasing Georgia) and just wait. Other Austins were very shy about blooming here (Brother Cadfael comes to mind) and after about 6 years in the ground have come to flower much more. I'm not in a rush, and it doesn't look like I'm moving anytime soon... :-)

Hmmm -- not stingy at the Barona Casino's Display Garden of Austin roses. But a huge plant (and to make matters worse, they plant them in threes, per D.A.'s recommendation) and then they intertwine them all together. Tea Clipper is one that doesn't need that treatment. I put it on my list after viewing that one as one I'd like to get.

Not stingy at Barona? Well I will keep trying with mine then. Thanks for that comment kstrong. 'Jude The Obscure' took five years to bloom well. I keep thinking TC is the same, but it has been four years now without improvement.

I'll see if The Blue Juice does anything.

One of my newer release David Austins has been giving out some stand out lovely blooms like in the spectacular photo above. Though, at the moment my garden is quite wild and I haven't bent to find its name in the grass. Now I know it is Tea Clipper !

Does anyone have any full-bush shots of the plant? Mary's is a wonderful shape, large but a true shrub and so attractive it can stand on its own without blossoms. I saw it right in early spring as it was finishing leafing out.

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Nice rounded bush

OK, my Tea Clipper finally popped! And I ran out to take pictures before the tornadoes hit (only kidding, I hope.)

Here is a shot of how it looks from our deck. Next to it is Frau Karl Druschki. Keep in mind that I know I have to move one of these roses. The Viburnum just exploded in growth this year after being about 4 feet tall for 3 years. Although I do like the color contrast between TC and FKD. Sort of like a creamsickle.

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Here's a closer picture. The growth habit of my TC is a bit lanky, much like Teasing Georgia. I have been trying to keep it in bush form, but this year it put out very long canes. I even took it down in the fall, but it didn't matter. So I think I will let it go along the fence

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Here you can see the long canes, the blooms on top are laterals. I'm training the canes under the netting I had to keep my cat from jumping over the fence.

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And now some blooms!

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So far I have not been overly impressed with Tea Clipper. For me it has been just an extended once-bloomer. I have not gotten any repeat bloom on it at all. Perhaps it will improve with age since these Austin roses take time. I also do not care for the aging qualities of the flowers that fade from a nice apricot coloring as shown above to a color like dirty dishwater. It wants to bleach out to a cream and almost tan color. The jury is still out on this one.

Thanks for all the pictures. They're beautiful. I don't mind the way the blooms age in this climate/color scheme. I am getting more and more pleased to be getting this rose! Thanks to Peachiekean!