A dream rose that I've never had the courage to buy. Yours is sublime.

You might give it a try, Ingrid. Established plants seem to do ok in hot, dry locations here, e.g. completely neglected in a hell strip. So with some drip irrigation, it might do well even in your warm climate.

I agree with John. This rose is definitely neglect hardy in warm climates. I watched it bloom (from my kitchen window) for 15 years in the back yard of a vacant house in our neighborhood. When the house sold, the new owner and I dug it out of a blackberry thicket which had completely buried it (except for the long canes emerging out of the top of the thicket and climbing up a tree). Even without the blackberries, what turned out to be two bushes of it were growing in full shade. Mine is the climbing version, of course. I water it in the summer, but otherwise all it gets is some osmocote once a year, and a little pruning to keep it from falling off the chimney. No spraying. It has now decided to send some canes sideways into where the banksia lutea is growing on the house - luckily the colors look good, so I leave it alone. Give it a chance -

Jackie

Jackie, you said it! Those blooms...well, you said it. Or rather MCT said it...did it..is it.

Go for it, Ingrid! (Enabling.)

:-) Carol