Good question! I would love to hear the answer to this one as well.

According to Rose Search website it says "does not do well in warmer climates". I would suggest to find a similar rose that do better for your area. I assume Texas is hot, hot and smoking hot.

IâÂÂve had my Over the Moon for several years nowâ¦4 or 5, I think. I bought it locally in a 5 gallon pot grafted on Dr Huey. ItâÂÂs been planted in all day, full sun since I brought it home, and doesnâÂÂt seem to have any problem handling our heat. IâÂÂm a zone cooler than you, but we do usually have some days in the low triple digits and many days in the upper nineties. We have very high humidity here...not sure if Houston is a dry heat or humid heat area. My OtM blooms in big flushes with fairly quick repeatâ¦at least once a month even in the height of summerâ¦with scattered blooms in between. Bloom size & quantity donâÂÂt seem to be affected too much by the heat, but blooms fade much quicker than in cool weather. About the only issues IâÂÂve had with mine are its light coloring is a real favorite of the Japanese Beetles that are abundant here every summer, and in my high humidity, it will blackspot if not sprayed (very few moderns can be grown no spray here). OtM isnâÂÂt a blackspot magnet, but I do spray it as neededâ¦a few times each season.
Were the two that died for you own root? Or maybe it was a water issueâ¦we usually have plenty of rainfall, plus the bed mine is planted in has supplemental irrigation for dry spells.

HereâÂÂs a picture of OtM in June:

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And hereâÂÂs one from August when it was very steamy here:

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Pat, your photos are why I love this rose. My two were grafted, large plants, well planted in one of my rose beds. Well watered and cared for, this bed is in full, hot, all day sun. In spite of my care, one died, then the other. We had a hideous summer in 2011, the worst drought I have ever seen, temps 105 every day for about 3 months. I cant remember if they died in that summer or not - but it was in summer. I have ordered another grafted one from Regans [who always send top of the line roses] and am going to plant this one where my horse barn provides late afternoon shade after 2pm. In spite of my care - once summer hit, they did not thrive and eventually were goners. So......not giving up, just going to try to find a place where this gorgeous rose will thrive. We have humid heat - no Japanese beetles thankfully! Good As Gold is growing in the same all day sun bed and is doing great, so I just wondered if all that sun and heat was too much for OTM. The blooms are so gorgeous that I am not giving up on it.
I love apricot roses and this is one of the prettiest.

Thanks for your photos to whet my appetite! Will give this rose another try.......maybe mulch a little extra too.
Judith

We had a very bad summer a few years ago, too...extended stretches of high temps & uncharacteristically dryâ¦but even then, we had more days in upper nineties than in triple digits. I know I had OtM at that time, but IâÂÂm pretty sure it was at least her second year in the ground. Maybe with some afternoon shade and hopefully a more cooperative summer to start her off, OtM will do better for you this time. I love apricots, too, and OtM is my favorite of the ones I grow. I hope to hear that it thrives for you this time around!

Pat, I am amazed at how prolific your roses are and love looking at the pictures of them. How do you get so many blooms?

Pat's pictures of her Over the Moon are beautiful. However, my plant of it died also. It did not care for my conditions at all. It also did not help that in the last two springs we had hard, late freezes. I'm sure that helped to do the poor plant in. Other plants failed also because of the late freezes.

A death a zone above me and two a zone below me...what a difference one zone can make. We will have days in the triple digits and days in the single digits, but we rarely have either for more than a few days at a timeâ¦maybe, thatâÂÂs key for this rose. IâÂÂve highly recommended OtM based on its performance in my garden. IâÂÂm hoping thatâÂÂs not a fluke, and I havenâÂÂt been steering people wrongâ¦would love to hear of some other success stories out there?!

Here are a couple of pictures from Mayâ¦the âÂÂpolar vortexâ and late winter/early spring freeze & thaws didnâÂÂt really set it back at all:

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Thanks Kentucky_rose! I donâÂÂt do anything special with my roses, but most do bloom heavily and often here. I think my location is just a perfect storm for thatâ¦.plenty of sunshine, heat, humidity, rainfall, acidic clay soil, winter chill, but usually no extended periods of frigid cold. Unfortunately, thatâÂÂs also a perfect storm for blackspot & bugs!

Just gorgeous! I may have to try this one out after all. Houston is definitely very humid, similar to New Orleans. I'm always looking for roses that do well in humid heat.

I have a tree rose OTM planted in a place that shades over at about 2pm also. My zone is not nearly as hot as TX so I may not helpful. We do have our stretches of 90s or rarely 100s for about a week. This rose fades to white generally and quickly in heat. Its my only reason I'm gonna replace with Brandy... I didn't want a white rose. Otherwise its a prolific bloomer all the time with huge beautiful blooms. It doesn't flush like most but seems to always have blooms up til December here. In general I wouldn't buy OTM in a hot climate unless you want an apricot that turns white. Weeks missed it with this one.

I love this colour range and it is beautiful. I was looking for this rose last year but couldn't find it. Hopefully I will this spring. I grew Marilyn Monroe and Just Joey and they both died after the first winter. This rose seems to combine the best of two: MM's rose shape and JJ's colour. The only question I have is how BS resistant is it and the zone hardiness?