9A/Houston, TX 10/10/22: Purchased bare root from DA spring 2022. Suffered from summer heat but relatively healthy foliage and occasional blooms in the absence of a formal or inorganic spray program (occasional neem spray). Put in ground Oct. 2022 in mostly shady location, where it had lived in a large grow bag it was moved into immediately after purchase.
*** Growing near Houston, TX: sub tropical zone 9a. Mild winters, hot, extremely humid summers that last half the year. ***
Purchased from Long Ago Roses August 2012.
April 2013- This plant is still band sized and hasn't come out of its gallon container yet. Has made three beautiful flowers. Slow to get going, flowers shatter quickly.
5/24/2014 - Potted, blooming its fanny off. Waiting for new garden bed to be completed. 4/2016- been planted a year and a half. Size is 1 x 1 5/26/2017- Same size. I think she might die on me soon. 3/22/2018- dead