Pomponella is a marvelous baby . Although there is no scent to it , it is one lovely art with little pompoms , neatly arranged petals in a beautiful and glowing mid pink . The bush itself is neat , too . We keep it in our garden in mid shade surrounded by resp. tall natural grasses and a hornbeam bedge , a cherry tree , privet , ... Actually 1m20 at most of free space on 3 sides and few hours of direct sunlight . Perhaps precisely that is why it behaves so well and neatly . We expect it to grow upon the frame of 2m by 1m20 in the far or near future . In its 5th year now and barely pruned 1mby40cm , it enchants every person getting introduced to , come roselover or any person who would normally not be interested At All in plants let alone roses .
Everyone's favourite in our rose- and other bushes trees and what have you rich , poisonfree garden . A little black dress CC kind of rose .
I'm in a soggy Zone 8 (Vancouver, Canada) and from year one this rose has been vigorous beyond belief. After four years the only thing that seems to stop it from growing taller is that at 8 ft (2.4m) I just ruthlessly prune it in spring. The pictures I've included over the last couple of years show it successfully holding its own midst an equally vigorous Warsaw Nike clematis. (Note the photo showing the canes in early spring. It gives a idea how this rose branches) It is continuing to throw out aggressive basal breaks that have to be roped in, and then the apex explodes with a witches broom of small and medium branches that bear huge (weighty) trusses of blooms. Support is absolutely necessary or the canes will break off. The result is a tough-as-nails yet pretty climber that seems impossible to discourage. Deadheading is easy, just wait till a whole spray is done with and cut off way back to the original prune joint if needed. My suggestion if you want a bulletproof climber that can take abuse is to try this one but give it a lot of tough love when pruning time comes along or it will take over.
