Rosa 'AUSpike' JAMES L. AUSTIN® hybrid tea shrub rose / English rose (AUSTIN)
size/type
medium-sized shrub,medium-sized shrub
usual height
0,8-1,2m
usual width
0,6-0,8m
leaves
deciduous broadleaf
colour of leaves
flowers
showy
colour of flowers
blooming time
June-October
location
full sun
soil moisture requirements
evenly moist (dislikes drought)
USDA zone (lowest)
5 (down to -29°C)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Description of the plant:
JAMES L. AUSTIN® is an English rose by David Austin Senior named after his son and introduced in 2017, only one year before D. Austin passed away. It is a large-flowered, fully double hybrid tea rose with deep magenta purple to cerise flowers, composed of 40 or more petals. They bear light, fruity fragrance and bloom repeatedly from June until October. Plants form upright shrubs just over one meter tall and a little less wide. Deciduous leaves are deep green, partially glossy, and usually disease resistant. It is very hardy (down to abt. -29 °C – USDA zone 5), and suitable for pots. Planting instructions: Prepare a hole of size 30x30 cm. Put your rose in the way that the grafting point is 3 cm deep in the soil. Water well and cover new shoots with soil or bark mulch about 15 cm high. Roses tolerate wide range of soils but thrive in deep, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, in full sun.
Pruning: English roses don’t require hard pruning like tea hybrids. Just cut last year’s growth by one third to maximum one half in the spring (after frosts) to achieve desired shape, and strong and reliable framework. Cutting it back to 3-5 live buds is possible for re-juvenating. To support extra flowering during the season remove twigs past blossom: cut them off the first leaf with 5 leaflets. Mulch well before winter, preferably with leaf-mould.
Last update: 23-03-2021
