Looking great jjk.

jjk, beautiful blooms of a favorite of mine, I grow two Rouge Royales. both in ground, grafted plants. I've never had a single problem with them, though our awful hear hasn't been kind to the blooms this season (but the heat hasn't been kind to any of my roses' blooms). No rose diseases here, so I can't comment on that. Diane

Heat not hear. I need to proofread better. Diane

Wow she looks beautiful!

Thank you @Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR and @Elestrial 7a! @Diane Brakefield, I thought it might be my clay soil and that this rose might like more sun than where I had it planted in the ground. I totally agree it being an easy favorite! I’ve been using a higher nitrogen organic fertilizer recently that bulked up the foliage really nicely.

It’s such a beautiful cerise color to behold!

love it!

I'm so jealous! I bought two grafted bareroots and neither of them survived. I did everything I was supposed to. Maybe there's a better source than Edmund's.

@Aaron Rosarian Zone 5b my half baked theory on Edmunds is that customers who get their bare roots earlier ie in the higher zones, have better success than those who get them later. Something about their harvesting and/or storage conditions may be reducing their viability faster than other vendors. There is zero statistical power in these observations so.. but I’m in zone 10 and mine are all doing great

@SD Shine -Z10a Bay Area: I have an alternate hypothesis about Edmunds. I think that we folks in warmer zones get the worst of their roses, since they get sent out earlier. I think that they save the best ones for the colder zone folks, since they know they'll be better able to withstand the long months in the cooler before shipping. Now for my caveat: this is based on my experience ordering from them in 2020 and 2021. I used to be a regular customer of the old Edmunds for many years and avoided the Jung's version of it until 2020. The bare root roses I received from them in 2020 and 2021 all took an extra year or two to perform like normal #1 bare roots, and a couple of them just croaked. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they've improved since then. It seems to be the case based on more recent comments :-D

@susan9santabarbara I love that our hypotheses are in complete opposition LOL! I will say, quality-wise, they had nothing on my bare roots from Palatine & April & Ashley, which are twice the size of everything else. Edmund’s quality was more on par with Regan’s bare roots this year.

My best mail order bare roots recently have been from Witherspoon and Palatine. My local nursery sells them in January in large tubs of planting mix, and theirs are usually pretty huge, with the occasional batch of wimpier ones as received from their vendors. I haven't ordered from Regan in several years. Although I'm trying hard not to get any more roses, I may end up ordering a Martha Stewart from Edmunds this winter if no other vendor carries it, so I may get to experiment with them again after 5 years!

What an intertsing discussion on sourcing. I ordered my grafted plant through Armstrong Garden Center, but they and many other nurseries in the SoCal region distribute plants grown by Otto & Sons, which is ultimately where my plant came from. They are great!

Rouge Royal is a Meilland Rose. I find my Meilland roses are more susceptible to BS ir fungus, & I use TLC on them. Yves roses, Yves Piaget roses, Francis Meilland, Charlene de Monaco. They do ok, but may need sprayed. My climate can be humid with lots of rain. Best Wishes w/ Rouge Royal!

I was curious to compare Rouge Royale and Stiletto because I consider them both as cerise in color. What do you think?

I find the silvery reverse of RR really helps to define the petals more than Stiletto. Enjoy!