There are at least three roses on HMF named Snowdrift. Which one do you have? To answer your question it's very possible that the blackspot is a remnant of its previous home or from being boxed up for some time. I'd adopt a wait and see attitude, and most probably your plant will be just fine. I wouldn't put it in the bright sun just at first but slowly move it from lightly shaded to the sun over a period of days.

It’s Ping’s BAIrift, Ingrid.

All I can say is that in my garden, the BAIrift Snowdrift is extremely BS resistant and doesn't lose any leaves to speak of all season. There may be different strains of BS in Alabama vs. where you are, so maybe that's the difference. Colorado is more like Nebraska in the strains so I would expect that it'll recover once it gets the sunshine.

There also could be some BS from being trapped in a box for a while from Alabama in the humid heat. I think that's one of the reasons Heirloom defoliates their roses so that they grow new ones on arrival and don't look shabby out of the box.

Just my input - watch and wait is a good idea.

Cynthia

Can you verify that it is Snowdrift by any blooms it has produced?

Moses.

Moses, it is white rose. I am assuming it is the right one, no reason to doubt at this point.

Ingrid and Rifis, yes, that is the one.

Nippstress, I will assume then that stripping leaves is all I needed to do. I never had a rose arrive with BS before, but then I never got a rose from Alabama before either!