The rose is EXTREMELY thorny! Barbs all along the main underside vein of the leaf, and all along the stems. It's presently growing past a second story window on the east/southeast corner of a brick row house in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC. It gets hacked back every couple of years, but regrows quickly. I believe it is in an old bed that also has the most vigorous wisteria in the world! My shop is inf the house with the window--the rose & wisteria belong to the neighbor. He doesn't mind if I steal his flowers, but I've never been in his yard to see what the bed looks like. And I can't lean out the window and look because the roses would tear me to shreds! I suspect it suckers because the area that the bush covers is huge.

The rose was probably planted about 25 years ago when the neighbor had the back yard landscaped by a very well-know landscape architect. It seems to get very little care and does not seem to have any problem with disease. It seems to take care of itself.

Someone once said it might be Darlow's Enigma, but some customers of mine who are landscapers said that since it's a rebloomer, it can't be an heirloom rose.

It gets full sun most of the day. It grows against a brick wall & there is a brick courtyard to its east that reflects heat and light.

The flowers are miniature, creamy yellow opening to almost white when full blown. It's such a great rose, except for the thorns, I'm rooting cuttings so I can plant it at home. That plastic baggie trick really works!

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