Wow, She is a tall rose. Looks beautiful!

Thank you! I think she's charming.

Steven

Good heavens, what are you feeding that monster Charlotte! Mine barely clears knee-high after about 5 years, and we're both in zone 5. Whatever you're doing, keep it up as she clearly likes it!

Cynthia

I really haven't given her anything this year!

First two years some slow release fertilizer, and once a week less then half strength application of water soluble type with deep watering before and after. I also disbudded religiously those first two years, too.

Plus lots, and lots (twice a week, multiple gallons carried in buckets) of water. I didn't water her at all this year.

Her first year, I did allow one bloom for I.D., and she was so small, though filling in nicely, I had been initially concerned about development and believed the catalogue size. Whoops. So much for that concern!

Now now I have tall, prominent lass with lovely pastel lemon blooms. She also sets some hips, but they're not super showy.

Her location is exposed with no wind blockage. I expect die back in our normally harsh winters, but survived '14-'15 fairly well under the snow line.

Steven

Funny, mine did the same thing this year! They were growing in a different spot for I think 3 years, with perfectly nice, medium height, mannerly, shrubby growth. They weren't heavy bloomers; gave me a good June flush then a scattering of blooms after that. So I moved them to a less prominent location, whacked them back hard for the transplant. They bounced back right away, gave me the best summer of blooms I've ever seen, and now they're shooting up these tall, sturdy canes, easily 6'. No different treatment but better soil in the new bed. They get Rose-tone and Neptune's Harvest as a foliar spray. Amazing and wonderful, but they're now overwhelming their new shorter neighbors, darnnit.