Benjamin Britten - what color IS he??
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Comments (10)At least here Benjamin is not an unruly rose bush. Five by five feet and fairly nicely branched. Sort of straight stalks with one foot laterals coming from them. The scent is very odd, sweet and with a candy hint thrown in. The color in my garden is red but with a pinkish cast to it making a cherry glow....See MoreSuggest colours / roses to match Benjamin Britten
Comments (8)I bought BB at a garden center by accident. The bushes weren't in bloom and somehow I I got it confused with Christopher Marlow. So now I have three of them. I do like it, very healthy. Mine has never shown much of the orangey tone that the catalogue photo has. It's hard to describe the color: a warm dark pink, not quite hot pink. There's a certain iridescence. It's not quite so tough to coordinate as you'd imagine. There's a design drawing in DAs catalogue that places it between Molineux on one side and Mayflower & Falstaff on the other. Plenty of contrast there. In my garden, BB has Mary Magdalene & Brother Cadfael on one side, and Munstead Wood & The Alexandra Rose on the other....See MoreAnyone have experience w/Falstaff &/or Benjamin Britten?
Comments (19)Like Malibu-Rose wrote I did a post about Benjamin Britten on my blog (see link). BB is a beautiful rose - I am however not sure it will like too much heat and sun - since the flowers fade much even here this far north in Europe, it even fries in hot sunny weather (90F is about as hot as it gets here). Like other Austins it seems to take rests in between flushes, where it spends more time growing than producing flowers. I agree that it is healthy, but I saw it get rust, when it grew next a rose that was infected - so if rust is an issue where you live I would consider that. Falstaff has beautiful flowers too - but it is not very productive with flowers either. It is a bit prone to mildew here. It can be grown as stiff upright, low climber here, but the flowers are smaller and not so perfect shaped in the second flush here -(We only get 2 flushes every season here - since the growing season is so short). I love both roses. They are unique and beautiful. As some write they do not bloom continously as some modern roses - and I only grow them in my cutting garden, because their growth habit does not suit my small garden. For a warm and sunny climate I think there are better roses - William Shakespare 2000 is like some mentioned one of the the best Austins. I do not know if it can be trained as climber though?? But tiny Austins like Tradescant (1 foot here) can become huge (6-7 feet trained again a split rail fence -as I have seen in Sacramento and Santa Barbara). William Shakespeare blooms alot most places I have seen it in USA. So I hope the original poster will find another rose - I am sure some living in CA can come up with some good alternatives. Here is a link that might be useful: Benjamin Britten...See MoreBenjamin Britten. 5' tall, no blooms. Nada
Comments (7)I have 2 own root BB's that have been in the ground for 5 years. They are not the most generous bloomers, but the blooms they do produce are very nice-really like the color. I saw a specimen of BB at the David Austin headquarters building in Tyler, TX around 7 years ago, and it was around 12 feet high and 5-6 feet across. I have kept mine to around 4-6 feet high and 3 feet across so far. If garden space was limiting and I had to be more selective, I am not sure that I would keep it in my garden, but I have around half a hectare, so I have space for BB . . . for now....See Morelibrarian_gardner_8b_pnw
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