Has survived better than a lot of the other roses through its first winter, with hardly and die-back. She was an own-root from DA April of 2015. A lot of this year's die-back occured as late-season freezing "Arctic Blasts" that came after many had started coming out of dormancy, all the protective snow was gone.. and the little shoots blackened. She is fine though with about 80% of the cane lengths green and is about 18" tall!