Yes, it's a good rose. Large shrubs and climbers take a while to get going, and most of them are not going to repeat as well as a bush rose. Mine is covered in bloom for a long time in spring and then repeats regularly, but not as heavily. The clusters are good for cutting. The thorns are a nuisance, but the plant has pretty good disease resistance and is no-spray in many areas. It is also sold as Seminole Wind in Florida.

George, that's a beautiful corner.

Mine almost never makes those light salmon tones. It is usually medium red or strong deep pink from a distance. Up close it can show a shimmer of raspberry and vermillion reflections. Some days the young flowers are coral like at the bottom of George's pillar, but generally the effect is closer to mid-pink or mid-red than the picture shows.

The pillar is a good idea. The young canes are very flexible for a while. I have it as a climber, and it does have butt-ugly crooked bare knees.

It smells like Juicy Fruit.

Thank you, Michael.

The lighter blooms are older, they fade as they age. Generally I would characterize RU as "shocking coral pink", which doesn't easily harmonize with OGR's.

Thanks for the info everyone. I love the blooms, but it is a bit of a "ratty" looking bush trained on a trellis. Time may improve it? I sure wish I had trained it on a pillar like George has. Mine is on fortuniana so it wouldn't like being moved.

Mine has beautiful shiny healthy leaves. It is just finishing its first flush and was outstanding. It and Parade are my favorite climbers and I think the coral/pink would look good with any color.

I have two of them, grown on rebar teepees (of course, right?) and I really do like them. I don't spray, and afterthe first flush, which is absolutely huge, they do tend to lose some leaves after this, then rebound beautifully. I pair mine with blue clematis. I like this rose, and those who see it, want it!

Robert

Sandy, a tip for trellising might be to stretch the basals and other low shoots out horizontally and LOW on the trellis. I went for height early (didn't have good low support) and ended up with bare knees.

George, my blooms most often fade to a deep pink with no orange in it. The variability is interesting, must be the climate.

Scary screaming coral here no longer.

I think I'll go out and retrain a bit more horizontal. The problem is my trellis is only 5 feet wide, so the canes that are perfectly horizontal are hanging way off the sides. I've almost thought of trying to peg the ones near the ground.

The color for me has been a very pretty shade of deep pinky coral. Maybe it doesn't scream at you here because our sun tends to fade the bloom somewhat.

I would like to second the 'Juicy Fruit' fragrance def., it's what makes it very unique. Are there any other roses that smell like chewing gum?

And the colors here (in SoCal, 18 miles inland) are different shades of pink, corally-raspberry, and the blooms are nice and flouncy. I let mine flop, but George's picture has me thinking pillar...

My only real problem with it is the pronunciation of the name. I suspect it's a bit more elegant than "oot-er-sen". 'Yootersen'? 'Oitersen'?

Andrea

Andrea, "yoot" is good enough for English speakers. It's a vowel we don't use. Purse as for "oo", tighten the corners of your mouth hard, and try to push an "ee" sound through.

This exercise will probably convince you that "yoot" is good enough for English speakers.

Andrea, I saw it pronounced "etterson" on one nursery site. I have one on fortuniana, just planted in March or April this year. I can agree with Robert about losing leaves after the first flush. I was close to panic a week ago with all the lower leaves going yellow & black spotty. I feel better about it now. It's got 3 or 4 4' canes that I need to tie. I went horizontal with the first one trying to go around the side of a rebar arbor we made. I hope the canes really are flexible enough to dowhat I'm trying to do. I'm a beginner and was thinking of wrapping it around until it gets to the top. Then it can flop on top across the arbor. Is that a good plan? I do like the smell, but couldn't place it. When these new buds open, I'll compare them to Juicy Fruit.

Well a report from warmer climes!

Here in z5 it is one of the few roses that came through our odd winter unscathed. It has beautiful foliage but is very unlikely to make it into climber status. Well maybe, you never know but at the moment if is floribunda sized.

Being a Kordes lover I'm willing to give it all the time needed to do that.

Now as to color, it hasn't bloomed yet and my memory is so bad best not to comment on last year's flowers. As I recall a sort of off reddish.

I have some roses that I think would fare better in colder climates, among which are Imperatrice Farrah, Gruss an Auchen and Rosarium Uetersen. I do not seem to get that lovely bloom that others do and I know it is not my soil, it is not my lack of tending them. I think there are roses that just like cooler climates. These three roses do fine for me in spring and fall, but the rest of the year, they are crappy.

Mine is coming into full bloom, and it is already a traffic-stopper, with hundreds more buds coming along. The color I usually get is bright but not raucous and actually looks good with crimson roses in a vase. But I'm cowardly about color and planted light yellow under it.

My Rosarium has beautiful flowers, but it has an extremely unruly growth habit. The canes are thrusting staight up, as if it wants to be a huge shrub, but a hybrid tea also. It is VERY thorny. I have tied many canes to the trellis, but it keeps producing more and more so that there is no more room to put them. It wants to be a tall flapping in the breeze, very chunky bush rather than a climber, I think.

I'm still not quite sure what to do with this rose. I still have mixed feelings about keeping it.

Any suggestions out there?

Sandy

Sandy, your canes are strong enough to support a big cluster of bloom without bending over? Mine aren't. Pictures I've seen as a shrub have the flowers flopped over to the ground. Mine is a 10 x 12' climber. If I don't tie in the shoots before blooming, then when I deadhead, I bend them and tuck the end into the thorny tangle 8" or so. They stay put. If too stiff to bend, they get cut off. I try to tie in the longer (6') shoots at an angle while they are still growing, but usually leave the 3' laterals until after blooming. Then the horizonally-trained canes will later produce mostly short (1') blooming laterals like a normal climber. It makes a wall of roses in the spring flush, though thinner at the bottom.

When the shoots are young, I would tie and guide them along bamboo sticks to their final position. ONce the canes harden, it is nearly impossible w/o breaking them. Mine wants to be a big bush instead of climbing, wider than tall. Lots of lateral branches come near the ground level and terminate in 5-7 buds. It wants to bloom rather than grow tall. I found the color quite refreshing and vibrant pink Âbut not clashing like red KO. After the rain yesterday, all the soaking blooms faced down and bend but didnÂt break any canes. TheyÂre tough.

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That's the color mine is so far in the first flush.

Some of my canes bend down from the weight of the flowers, but most are strong enough not to bend too far. Nothing has broken off so far. There is no where else to put all the canes, unless I start tying them to each other! I suspect this rose would rather be a freestanding, very dense bush.

The laterals are just jutting out all over the place and are quite long, at least 3 feet. So far, this bush seems to bloom only on the tips, whether they are trained horizontally or not.

I like the flower form and color a great deal (that's why it hasn't been removed....yet) - it's the bush itself I don't care for very much. It's very stiff and gawky. A very messy look.

I'm thinking if I prune it back hard in order to look tidy, it won't bloom.

Sandy

You can certainly tie the new growing canes to the older ones that have been stiff. I do that sometimes with all my climbers. This rose, as you observe, will bloom at the tips so donÂt worry to trim it and start training the new ones. ItÂll rebloom readily.

Sandy, if those 3' laterals are tucked in semi-horizontally, each one will carry eight or so short bloming laterals in the spring flush next year and 40 or 50 buds.