climbing Mrs. Stevens has been a vigorous rose in my garden. I started it from a cutting in 2002, planted it in the ground in 2003 and within 6 months, it covered the garden arch. I feed it generously and it blooms in flushes, most lavishly in spring and fall. The canes are flexible and easy to train. The bush is vigorous and I rein it in with selective pruning to keep it from overpowering the arch where it grows. The blooms hand and nod gracefully from their slender stems. I do spray our roses, but Mrs. Stevens seems more disease resistant than my HTs.