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'Pat Austin ™' rose Description
'Pat Austin ™' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Sue The Rose Lover's Garden (Roselvr)
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
• AUSmum
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Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
ARS:
Orange or orange-red Shrub.
Registration name: AUSmum
Exhibition name: Pat Austin ™
Origin:
Bred by David C. H. Austin (1926-2018) (United Kingdom, before 1993).
Introduced in United Kingdom by David Austin Roses Limited (UK) in 1995.
Class:
Shrub.   (Series: English Rose Collection)  
Bloom:
Orange or orange-red.  Moderate, tea fragrance.  up to 50 petals.  Average diameter 3.5".  Medium to large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped, nodding or "weak neck" bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Long, pointed, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Upright, well-branched.  Large foliage.  5 leaflets.  

Height: 42" to 5' (105 to 150cm).  Width: 42" (105cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for garden.  Heat tolerant.  Requires spring freeze protection (see glossary - Spring freeze protection) .  Can be grown in the ground or in a container (container requires winter protection).  
Patents:
Australia - Application No: 1999/114  on  1999   VIEW PBR PATENT
 
Canada - Patent No: 0287  on  2 Dec 1996
Application No: 95-534  on  4 Nov 1994
Grant of Rights terminates on December 2, 2014
 
European Union - Patent No: 1543  on  16 Dec 1996
Application No: 19950467  on  24 Jul 1995
Holder: David Austin Roses Ltd. Denomination approved: AUSMUM.
First commercialistaion in EU: May 1, 1995.
Expiry of protection on 31/01/2021.
 
United States - Patent No: PP 9,527  on  30 Apr 1996   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 08/457,999  on  1 Jun 1995
Observations made from specimens grown in a garden/greenhouse environment at Albrighton, Wolverhampton, England in July, 1993.
Parentage:
Graham Thomas × Abraham Darby
Notes:
Named after the wife of the Breeder