In need of help identifying previous owner's roses

14 years ago

We moved to a new house two years back and I am slowly finishing to sort out the remnants of previous owner's garden. She was not much of a gardener, so most of the plants I got were abandoned, wrongly planted/pruned mess, among them some roses. After some weeding around and quick fixes, now I am trying to sort out what exactly I got.

Seems to be planted as a climber, though it did not grow higher than 5 feet in 2 years. Blooms start as orangy and fade to pinkish, repeat bloom, no smell.

Nice pink shrub, blooms seem to suffer from wet weather though. Repeat bloom, slightly fragnant.

Looks like one of the Austins to me, it is a bit more yellow than in the picture and seems to repeat bloom well (despites being planted in a grass)

Looks like some peachy floribunda maybe, again it is just peachy in reality, blooms continuesly.

Very lovely red rose, all these blooms are on one cane and smell is intense, very lovely. Repeats.

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petaloid
14 years ago
I have a hunch that they all may be Austin shrub roses.

When I find my book with Austin photos I will check there, and in the meantime I'll link you to a site with good pictures of many of the Austins in commerce:

Here is a link that might be useful: David Austin rose photos
elemire
Original Author
14 years ago
Yeah, I keep drooling over Austin roses periodically. :) I was thinking that the 3rd picture with the yellow one might be The Pilgrim, this one has lemon-yellow middle and from some The Pilgrim photos it looks like it has to be more towards peachy?

The last one could possibly be as well Austin, although I had the impression that most Austins have rather large blooms, and this one doesn't, the size of one bloom is maybe 2-3 inches.

Not sure about the 2nd one, but 1st and 4th one had some remnants of a label, which did not look like typical Austin's label, too bad the only thing written on those was "Rose" and a pic of some unrecognizable color rose... Bah, somebody in the plant store really was a captain obvious... :)
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