Outstanding climber for coastal Southern California. Prodigious spring bloom followed by more or less continuous bloom. The color combination is original and most welcome. Extraordinary fecundity characterized by virtually every bloom turning into a hip dictates that deadheading be done with diligence in order to keep the blooms coming. Seems immune to powdery mildew and rust. I cannot evaluate black spot as it is not a problem here. Handles heat better than most in this color class. Under good growing conditions the plant may require judicious pruning to keep it in bounds or else it may bury your house. Just kidding!
We purchased this from a local nursery, it had very few roots going into the hottest summer on record. It lost all of it's leaves and produced hips on the few canes that did bloom earlier in the spring. By fall, it had releafed, but no new blooms, and it's round hips changed from orange to red-orange.
May 23, 2012: This is not a happy rose, again. Covered with blackspot, it's dropping leaves, I have this in light shade since it is a dark color, but I have another rose "Shockwave" that looks the same. West Coast roses are not for our area.
April 2, 2013 The only green is probably the rootstock the rose was grafted onto, that is if Weeks Roses grafts their roses. This is sad, I wanted to have a nice striped climbing rose.
