Rosa 'TEASING GEORGIA' shrub rose (David Austin)

THIS VARIETY HAS BEEN RETIRED BY DAVID AUSTIN, NO LONGER IN PRODUCTION.

Have you ever been teased by a Růže? Teasing Georgia will offer you this luxury, we get into that in a jiffy. This one is a climbing version of the shrub variety producing enchanting flowers of somewhat golden or amber yellow flowers. They are fully double, large, and have paler outer petals. Thanks to its strong tea rose fragrance it won the Henry Edland Medal in the 2000 R.N.R.S. trials for the best scented variety. And what's the tease? Well, Teasing Georgia has been observed to produce a lot of wood and foliage in the first year or two, possibly a few mid-sized semi-double flowers, and only when well-established it begins to thrive producing profusion of large, fantastically coloured flowers as if telling you "now you deserve it having withstood my whims". Good repeat flowering.

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 need regular 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 bracts. Mulch well before winter, preferably with leaf-mould.

Last update: 06-01-2016