I have repeatedly read (elsewhere) that Sympathie is one of those climbers with a rather marked tendency to display long bare legs. Sure enough, the rather old Sympathie we inherited when we bought the house two years ago was decidedly a second-floor rose. Beautiful clusters of blooms six feet above the ground and nothing below. She surprised me this spring however by suddenly covering her old main stem densely in new laterals almost from the ground up. No idea what inspired her--can't have been the severe frost? Can't wait to see her bloom this time.