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I took a whole rose weekend to South Carolina, and saw Pat Henry's garden and also all the plantings at Roses Unlimited and this is the one rose that blew me away. It was covering an arbor over a big round concrete table with seating benches, and it was the most utterly magnificent rose I've had the pleasure of seeing with my own eyes. Of course the rose was it's best salesman and they had sold out of it, but I did get one at Ashdown Roses when I picked my order up there. Wow, anyone who grows roses and does not have this beauty has just never seen one in person. I know it's a once bloomer, but it's more magnificent that any dogwood I've ever seen, and I don't know anybody who would shun a dogwood for only blooming once. The rose was also sweetly fragrant. I can't wait to get mine planted!
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hi there - i have had trouble getting mine to bloom! currently in a garden on Cape Cod - rampant growth but now blooms. have tried not pruning it, pruning it early, pruning it late...thoughts/tips welcome
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Anonymous...
What do you mean by "pruning it late" ? If you read the care information on the rose page for 'Silver Moon', you will see that this rose blooms on "old wood". What that means to you as a rose gardener is that you do not prune the rose until after it flowers. Then the rose will spend the rest of the season growing "new wood". By the next season of bloom, the plant considers (please forgive me for personalizing a plant) the wood generated the previous season as "old wood" and will bloom on the "old wood".
If your plant was a young plant when you didn't prune it at all, it may have been putting all of its energy into growing a large root system to support the larger top growth expected from this rose and did not produce blooms, which is common for large flowered climbers.
Since it is a hybrid wichurna, it should be cold hardy enough for your zone.
I hope this helps. Good luck with your rose. Silver Moon can be stunning rose.
Smiles,
Lyn
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