| think it's 'G. Nabonnand' / 'Jean Ducher'... although it should bloom more than once a year, I wonder if your pruning regime is stopping it...?..

Beautiful...and I see the delicateness of the blooms...almost like a tea? Oh...you did say it's a tea. LOL

My Devoniensis looks somewhat like this, but repeats on the bloom.

If it doesn't repeat, it's not a Tea Rose -- or something is very very wrong.

Look, let's look at this differently . . .

Did you plant this rose, or was it there when you got there?

Maybe the reason it's sending up those long canes is that it's a climbing rose of some sort?

I wonder if this might be 'New Dawn' or some other spring-blooming shrub or climber which is trying very hard to grow to its biologically determined size.

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your help. I don't know too much about this rose, other than that it was here before my parents moved in about 24 years ago. It could possibly have been planted when the house was originally built, in the late 1950's. I asked my dad why he always trims off the long shoots, and he said it is because they never bloom. He said that one year he let them grow for a little bit, and they grew really tall but never produced even a single bloom, but he said he didn't let them grow too long before he cut them off, only a couple months worth of growth. He is not sure if it is a climbing rose or not, so it could be a possibility. But it seems strange to me that the original owners would plant a climbing rose far away from any support, unless they didn't know it was a climbing rose either. I don't think it could be a tea rose at all anymore since it only blooms once, unless the pruning has stopped it from blooming. We are going to let it grow without trimming it to see if it will produce flowers. I looked up "New Dawn" and it is very close, only the flowers on this rose are much larger. They are the size of a regular hybrid tea rose blossom only with fewer petals. Maybe because since we trim it there are fewer flowers, so the plant has more energy to produce larger blooms?

Thanks again and have a lovely evening!

damask_rose : )

I'm really bad at this so please don't think this is any more than a guess. Could it be Belle Portuguaise or one her offspring? I have always wished I could grow this rose but alas! Zone 7 isn't warm enough!

Wow, I think you hit the hammer right on the nail Kes! Thank you so much! It looks just like "Belle Portuguaise," from the shell pink flowers to the shape and color of the leaves. I have never heard of hybrid giganteas before, does anybody know anything about them?

Thanks again to everyone for your help!

damask_rose : )

YES. Belle Portugaise is a good guess.

And so there is the reason the long canes don't bloom ..... They'd bloom next spring, if they were still there.