Pinch me! I must be dreaming!

Is that a David Austin rose? here? in my garden?

Yes, it is! Please excuse my effusiveness but this is like a dream come true! I thought I would never see these roses in person, let alone having them in my garden! I feel overflowed with joy! Recently I was visiting this very nice BLOG which belongs to Clara Billoch who is a very skilled argentine gardener and I saw that there are english roses in her beautiful garden in Buenos Aires, I asked her where I could find those roses because I had never seen them here before. She kindly replied and I - defying the heat - rushed to the nursery!

There were not many because the hot season is too advanced  and almost all were prunned , the nursery employee told me these rare (rare here!) english roses come from plantations in Rio Negro - a southern province with cold snowy winters and short mild summers- to know this gave me a sinking feeling because whenever I bought plants from the south in the past they never thrived here (peonies mostly) but as those who read this blog regularly know I am serious case of zonal denial and stubbornly defy the climate all the time, so I bough two rosebushes to start the "experiment". They are "Pat Austin" (in the pictures here) and "Charlotte" (this one was prunned.)

Will they survive? or look at least half as good as those in glossy english books? Time will tell! but righ now I am very happy with Pat and Charlotte!

See you next time!