Rosa 'AUSpike' JAMES L. AUSTIN^®

Rosa 'AUSpike' JAMES L. AUSTIN®
hybrid tea shrub rose / English rose (AUSTIN)

SIZE/TYPE	medium-sized shrub
USUAL HEIGHT	0.8-1.2m
USUAL WIDTH	0.6-0.8m
LEAVES	deciduous broadleaf
COLOUR OF LEAVES	green
FLOWERS	showy
COLOUR OF FLOWERS	purple red
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
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Roses Summer blooms

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

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STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.