Hi. This rose is growing in zone 5A, upstate NY, near Albany. After 4 or 5 years the canes are about 5 feet tall. The plant is about 3.5 feet wide. I would guess that it would get larger in a warmer zone.

As with any rose that is grown in colder climates with short growing seasons, it needs a good 2-3 years to "come into its own", although this rose was productive and vigorous when young. It reliably improves with age/maturity. Canes get long and thick and are self-supporting. Foliage is lush. Leaves are of a modern type -- heavy substance, somewhat shiny. It never looks leggy or naked along the canes, unless the sawfly larvae go unchecked and skeletonize most of the leaves.

Blooms occur all over the plant, not just at the ends of the canes. It finished its spring flush about 3 weeks ago, and is setting more buds. As with most roses, the first flush is the most impressive, but repeat is generous and the blooms are eye-catching.

I prefer fragrant roses, and this rose has none that I can detect, but I like this rose so much that the lack of fragrance is not a disappointment.

Just ran outside to look and there's no blackspot yet, although other roses, like the Damasks, are showing some in the no-spray garden. It has had reasonably good bs resistance in the past, but it does show some eventually. Blackspot is later and less invasive than on most roses. In a humid climate there are very few roses that won't get some level of blackspot. Your mileage may vary.

Depending on blackspot pressures in your individual climate, you may fight it less often on this rose, but it is not entirely immune to blackspot. I'm still searching for a rose that is, and have only found one so far that comes close to being resistant -- Fields of the Wood -- but by the end of the summer even that one will have a few black spots on the leaves.