You're welcome, and thank you!

Steven

Mine is blooming its little heart out here too. Also ARE. It really is adorable, you are right.

Wow - I had no idea it could survive in zone 5 - that's great! Here is a pic of a mature one which gets hardly any care. It is growing about 5 blocks from my house. It's at least 9 feet tall. I like the upright shape - I have a baby one in my garden, and it is growing near some tea roses, so it will need to be upright to squeeze in!

Jackie

Wow, Jackie!

What a specimen. Mine won't be able to get that big, but I do admire you California folks and your large teas, chinas, and such. Incredible.

Steven

I have a baby Perl d'or and I love it! Mine stayed free of black spot when my other roses had it. I think I'm going to grow mine in a pot but I love this rose too!

I like the way the mature one stays fully clothed in leaves and blooms all the way to the ground. The one I posted a pic of gets sheared lightly about every 2 years or so, but otherwise there is no evidence of any care, including water in the summer. I have not seen disease on it, either. I know it is at least 25 years old, because that is when I first saw it.

Jackie

Lovely photos of one of my favorites. Too bad the Internet doesn't convey its delightful fragrance, but you can't have everything...

Thanks,

Virginia

What a beautiful post, Steven... I've coveted this rose for awhile but I think it is too big for my dinky garden.

Jackie, mine (8 in a row) have more of a spreading habit than yours does, both tall and sprawling. I wonder why that is the case. Perhaps exposure, since mine are out in the open.

Just now mine are much smaller. I gave them quite a hard pruning recently. They bounced right back and are in full bloom.

I'm curious how your perl d'or made it through this past winter? I'm thinking of putting mine in the ground and not keeping it in a pot but I'm not sure how big it will get in my zone 6 garden. It is such a pretty rose.

Hello!

Despite a milder than normal winter, we had roller coaster temperatures from the forties and even sixties to the mid-teens repeatedly resulting in winter kill and canker.

Virtually all above ground growth had to be cut out down to the crown. In outward appearances, it seems that Perle d'Or was just as hardy as my hybrid teas and floribundas. My OGRs, Kordesii, and Austins were far more durable with more live cane.

These results are the same as last winter. This is in my more protected spot, and the plant is entering its third growing season for me. I do not winter protect. Definitely not as hardy as ARE's Z5 claim to be (this baby is crown hardy, not cane hardy), but it IS alive and returns so far.

We'll see how years of this cycle effect it, but so far it's re-growth has been strong.

It's height and spread essentially do not exceed 3.5' for me.

Steven

Thanks for the info Steven! We had the same crazy winter weather. the roses in my south facing garden started to leaf out in February only to get snowed on in March and when the snow melted it was a garden of black sticks. However, everything came back. I think I will put perl d'oh in that garden now that I know it won't be a giant. I grow spray Cecile Brunner and that is a nice rose. It is pretty tiny right now but this is it's third year.

Thank you again, lisa