Arrived in the mail today....geez the thorn count on this one is crazy. It's not the big chunky spaced out kind, it's the cover every free bit of cane in thorns type like Alexander. Being that's it's a reliable seed parent I know I'll only be throwing thornless pollen at it.
Most cultivars demonstrated the same resistance or susceptibility in both leaf and flower buds to the three strains of mildew. However, in one cultivar, ‘Fellowship’ also known as ‘Livin’ Easy’ it was observed that leaf buds were highly susceptible while flower buds were very rarely infested.
Scarlet Moss and Canyon Road both do this, when heat stressed. Mildew will appear on the buds, and will disappear in the next flush if the weather changes enough.
Ought to withstand zone 5b winters, but it didn't survive last winter. Temps to minus 20 and almost no snow and a lotta sun. Other roses, that ought to die under such circumstances, froze back, but came back fresh and healthy.
