it looks like my Love and I have a hard time catching the red in my photos too. It usually goes that fluorescent pink color, lol. And Love is a HYBRID TEA not a Tea rose. Those are two different types of roses completely.

Thank you, Seil! You know, I bought a used book called "
The Ultimate Rose Book." It has something like 300,000 roses, photographed and described, and when I found their picture of Love rose I realized that it was the same. They refer to it as a "Large-flowered" rose, but mention that some consider it a grandiflora. Nobody who saw mine would even entertain the thought. But I was curious so I looked it up online and, lo and behold - it's classified on Dave's Garden, Help Me Find, Jackson & Perkins, and every site I found it on except one, as a grandiflora. It is also said to be hardy to zone 6, and I'm in 5b, so that may account for it's failure to grow a bit in all these years.

Naturally, Jackson & Perkins (the original hybridizer, bought out by thieves) says it's hardy to zone 5... I was planning to move it to another spot in my garden, but under the circumstances I might just be best off to leave it alone as long as it's still alive.

I can tell you that mine is not the most vigorous grower. I don't think the variety is very vigorous. Mine rarely gets more than about 18 inches to maybe, in a really good year, 2 feet tall. But I can tell you that I've had it for years and years and it's wintered just fine without any protection. Even through our horrible winter last year. I lost 69 roses over last winter but Love wasn't one of them!

For the most part, grandifloras have very similar growth habits and care as hybrid teas.

It looks like my Mom's LOVE, hers is 6' tall (but Mom doesn't prune much), and also survived last winter.

Thanks for a supporting opinion, Diane! Mine is about 2 feet tall, and I've never pruned it. It just doesn't grow.

These colours are from the same stem, the rose is orange, when it opens it fades goes from orange to pink, with yellow bits, its wonderfull, never can find the name or where I can buy it from. Does anyone know?

These colours are from the same stem, the rose is orange, when it opens it fades goes from orange to pink, with yellow bits, its wonderfull, never can find the name or where I can buy it from. Does anyone know?

{{!gwi}}

Probably Jacob's Coat or Jacob's Robe - I can't keep those two straight.

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