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I've had this rose for years and it seems to want to push for 3 flushes, but it's a slow repeater and in England it only managed 2. On a warm autumn it will form buds ready for it's third flush that will still never manage to happen.
Nonetheless i'll still always have this rose for it's fragrance. It's incredibly powerful and even richer second year onwards. Best of all it's there in every kind of weather, even freezing rain when other highly fragrant roses lose their scent.
It does get a bit of disease, but only after it's second flush is done around August, so I can't complain at all. Growth is strong and vigarous.
Overall 8.5/10 Fragrance 10/10 Disease resistence 6.5/10 Blooms: 9/10
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If you like the color and want an Austin rose very reliable but just a little darker I recommend Lady of Shalott. Here in Zone 9/10 it blooms almost continually with no disease.
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True Perfume is on ARS magazine Sept/Oct 2022 P. 91 & 92: Julia Child X unnamed fragrant seedling It won the ARC best shrub award at the international rose trails at the American Rose Center. It is supposed to be 3 feet wide and tall. www.rose.org/single-post/american-rose-center-international-rose-trials
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22 OCT 22 by
 jedmar
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The best red floribunda/cluster flowered rose. Tough, disease-free, always in bloom, intense RED flowers seem to last forever, foliage is attractive, plant habit is compact, even and easily managed. If it were just fragrant, it might be called a perfect rose!
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I use organic ( Stone's ) Rose fertilizer in zone 10 and it is very fragrant.
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Having grown this rose for only 11 months now, I am very pleased with it. It has beautiful growth habit, lots of foliage (the description says "medium green" but to my eye it's darker, with bronze new growth and stems that stay a mahogany color - most attractive) and bushy habit. It does send out some longer shoots, but where I have it planted it is not an "octopus". Its flowers are very fragrant and produced with regularity. After the experience of these past 11 months - I liked Young Lycidas so much that I ordered more bare root plants to put in this season as well. A very nice rose.
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Still doing well? I bought a Barbara Streisand own root hybrid tea for the lovely purple color and fragrance but in the photos on here some look more silvery than I like. Wondering if I should gift it to someone and plant Young Lycidas in that spot (Bright morning and afternoon sun but full shade from about 2 pm onward in my warm zone 10 Pasadena garden.
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Barbra Streisand as own-root gives me a hard-time in hot & dry weather. The color is dull-gray-purple. Leaves fried in full-sun at mid 80 F. So I moved Barbra to 4 hours of morning sun .. bloomed well with tons of acidic rain & flash flood. Then we got into hot & dry and I watered with my alkaline-tap water for only 4 days, and Barbra immediately broke out in blackspot (so wimpy as own-root). In contrast, folks report about Young Lycidas: 1) good for the vase 2) can take full-sun 3) leaves are similar to Sharifa Asma, and Sharifa Asma behaves well in hot & dry as own-root for me.
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Yes...it's still plugging along. Great rose
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How big is it in your garden? I have a small spot that I could fit a smallish rose in (3x3 ideally but 4x4 could work) and I know that Austins are notorious for growing to gargantuan proportions in Southern California. Does she stay petite or perhaps pruning to keep her under control?
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I'd say it would be easily maintainable at 4 x 4 or even smaller. At least that's been the experience here at the abbey.
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In Zone 10 in Santa Clara Valley my Young Lycidas is 4 feet high and 5 feet wide with water restrictions.
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