Truly beautiful. Thanks for the photo and inspiration. Now if I only had a tree :-)
The only trees I have are some small palms but I have designs on growing roses on them.
I love that rose's coloring.

how old is it? I got my awakening from RU this year. Truly gorgeous...

That is a gorgeous rose-------

Florence

I just got this one from RU this spring too and I am trying to train it to go up an oak tree in my yard. Nearlywild, how far out from the tree is this planted, and do you use any other type of support for it? I want mine to look like yours!

That looks like the bloom, but holy cow, look at that monster rose. What a beauty!

You live in the right zone for those roses. Awakening was a band last year, got 2 from that place that closed.

That's the only one I winter protected, and I only had a part-sun spot for the two of them. They are spindly but getting taller and look really healthy, glossy leaves. We'll see how they do this summer. I have to bury the canes in soil for the winter. They are only hardy to 20F.

So I'm not expecting much from them, a little more sun might make them happier if they last. I did get to see a couple blooms last year, really pretty color and form.

Alisda, I thought it was hardy to zone 5. Mine made it thru the winter with no protection or die back. Are we talking about the same rose. Awakening the sport of New Dawn. Amy

sunnishine, I don't have the year on this one, but I planted my first roses in 2002 so I am guessing I planted Awakening in 2003 or 2004 making it four or five years old.

Odyssey, the tree was smaller when I planted, and I just went beneath a branch about four or five feet out. It is growing on a cedar post (with a few branches left on it) set in the ground. From the post it just found the tree.

aliska, it will winter below twenty degrees. My temps often get in the teens during the winter months.

Does anyone know of another rose that is as carefree with beautiful foliage like Awakening?

oh WOW! That is one luscious rose!

Mari

Jean, that looks like something out of a fairy tale. No, there is nothing prettier!

oh my god that is gorgeous! I just discovered that I had it in my garden, a band from RU that I don't remember ordering ... now I need to find a permanent spot for it, all my fence space is now taken with climbers we put in this year after finally getting DH to build me trellises ... the only spot I can think of for that size would be next to my Cape Honeysuckle which is at least about 15 feet tall ...

Thanks for posting that - it truly is amazing! wow.

Aprille

Aprille, be patient with Awakening. It doesn't shoot up as fast as some roses, but rather like the turtle...slow and sure. As I mentioned above, mine is about four or five years old.

I thought it was hardy to z5, too, looked it up, I got them at Uncommon Rose, have a pile of labels but can't find those.

I'm positive I have Awakening and Hettie from them. I found a shot in my photo archives. UR didn't close, just the retail end of it, went to wholesale only when shipping went up, got the last two of each IIRC. Then I looked on HMF, and it said "5b through 9b. Shade tolerant. Requires winter protection if the wind chill factor is forecast to drop below 20 F / -7 C.. Can be grown in the ground or in a container (container requires winter protection). Prune right after flowering is finished."

Glad to know yours did ok, I had great hopes for mine, but that kind of dampened my enthusiasm. My two Hettie did so well last year, I did nothing to protect them, and they died clear to the ground, are coming back. Since I love that rose so much, I decided I had to protect at least those two.

Your experience is encouraging, but I'm afraid not to protect them, and if it grows to any size, not sure how to go about protecting them. My Graham you can't lay the canes on the ground any more, I sure don't want to do the MN tipping, trenching and burying. I can rig up an iron fence for them to tumble over if they keep growing.

I don't know if I took a photo of it blooming, but here are the plants shortly after they arrived in May or so last year.

I made a tighter crop of the tags in the second photo, clearly I have Awakening, and the bloom looked about as close to the OP's as I can remember.

That crack in my masonry is now caulked, and the house & foundation painted later last year.

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Here is a link that might be useful: Data on Awakening at HMF