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'Sympathie ®' rose Reviews & Comments
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I understand in our region (nothern Germany) this was very popular climber around the 1970s (when our house was built). To be sure, the flowers are plentiful and beautiful: velvety dark red with a slightly crimson touch, and a fine though very nice scent.
As a plant however it leaves a lot to be desired, compared to modern expectations of what a rose should be. It's consistently leggy, very sparsely leaved, and has a marked tendency to suffer from blackspot. I still keep it out of respect for its age, but it's not the kind of rose I would plant again.
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14 JUN 15 by
 Jay-Jay
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And it doesn't thrive in partial shady relatively dry spots.
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True, the conditions may be less than ideal. Though I have roses that do rather well under similar conditions. Anyway, the flowers ARE beautiful.
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The pictures here on HMF from San Jose show an impressive free-standing, robust, HUGE Sympathie. The photos from Europe show a spindly, sad Sympathie trained along a wall. My guess would be: It needs sunshine. Lots of sunshine. And heat. So, if you love it, why not give it a spot where it gets all the sunshine it can get?
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Wish I could! Very small garden, and most of it faces northwest, so it gets only very late sun and only during the summer. Besides, even if I had the space I probably wouldn't dare move a 40-year-old rose.
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Died over 2013, the "coldest" zone 4b winter here, it was in a container on a protected side of the house like it has been before.
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I have repeatedly read (elsewhere) that Sympathie is one of those climbers with a rather marked tendency to display long bare legs. Sure enough, the rather old Sympathie we inherited when we bought the house two years ago was decidedly a second-floor rose. Beautiful clusters of blooms six feet above the ground and nothing below. She surprised me this spring however by suddenly covering her old main stem densely in new laterals almost from the ground up. No idea what inspired her--can't have been the severe frost? Can't wait to see her bloom this time.
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19 MAY 12 by
Jay-Jay
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My Crimson Cascade performed the same trick!
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It looks like a nice cheerful red, and it's name reminds me of 'symphony', another good thing to share with a friend to cheer them up.
May 23, 2012: So far so good, no problems with blackspot or leaf loss, although I've read a few recent comments that it's not a particularly healthy rose.
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