pataustin

Pat Austin

Pat Austin

Breeder: David Austin

Parentage: Graham Thomas x Abraham Darby

Introduction: 1997

Class: English Shrub

Color: Copper/Peach/Gold

Scent: Spicy, Tea

Size: 4 feet

Zone: ?

   A perfect match-- the cross between two popular Austin roses, "Abraham Darby" and "Graham Thomas" created a new and exciting English Rose. David Austin approved of it so much he named it after his wife.
      The copper orbs of Pat Austin nod delightfully from a four foot shrub clothed in dark green, shiny foliage. Fragrance is reminiscent of Graham Thomas's unusual scent mixture with more of an emphasis on the spice and tea.
      Plump buds open slowly at first, then burst forth into cheery bowl-shaped blossoms filled with incurving petals. The roses are flushed throughout with shades of copper and peach which meld into a brilliant yellow at the heart.
      I have enjoyed this rose so much! Blossoms are always coming on. Roses are born singly and in loose clusters. New growth breaks along the canes and also springs from the base. The canes are somewhat lax, but this lends a definite charm to the shrub.
      I have found that Pat Austin looks good next to Rio Samba. The shrubs attain the same height and echo each other's colors very nicely.

     Pat Austin came through her first Michigan winter beautifully. No canes survived, but growth from the base was vigorous in the spring of 2000. The first week of June saw this rose reaching four feet in height and sporting more than 30 buds.

"Pat Austin"
June 2000

More roses in the third week of June 2000.

"Pat Austin"
with a skirt of artemesia

The beauty of the tropics in a single rose.

The blossoms take on a graceful elegance as they age.

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