Lyda can get pretty big and sometimes even want to be a climber. It throws long canes 8-10 feet. You can shorten them and grow it like a shrub or give her some support and let her grow up. My Lyda always wants to go up the neighbor's tree. I cut it because I am not sure my neigbors will like it. So it makes approx 6x6 feet bush for me.
Here it gets some BS, but still is a great rose. I love fragrance. It has excellent repeat.
Olga

Olga's description is right on the button for my 3 year old Lyda as well, except here in California BS is not much of an issue. Mine is growing in a shady location--only a few hours of sun a day--and doing just fine.

Colleen

My lyda Rose has done very well in almost total shade.

However we lost the big maple tree that was shading her . It will be interesting to see how she does with a lot of morning sun.
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florence

Thanks everyone. All this information helps with placing her. It's nice to know that she'll do fine if she gets shaded a tad.

Florence, your Lyda Rose is absolutely beautiful! Thanks for the picture.

Sandy

That song from The Music Man goes tripping through my head every time I read or hear about this rose. I think I read that the breeder named it for her daughter and for the song... Really pretty rose.

Those of you who grow Lyda Rose in areas that do have winters - how do you prune her in the spring? Mine is green to the tips, but some of them are pretty thin, skimpy stems. Do you cut back to stronger growth, or just let her go to do her thing? Thanks.

Thank you so much for that picture!!
I have been trying for 3 years to find out what I had out back.
I moved into my husband's old family homestead here.
The house is over 100 years old, and I have 3 old roses here also. This is one of them. It has grown up into the trees, and sits out back near an old garden site, that is now overgrown.

Another one I have is something his mother calls a "seven sisters". It is a bush type, about 6 - 7 ft. tall, and I know it was planted 43 years ago, per his mother.
It is red, with many very fragerant blooms on each stem.
It blooms from spring until heavy frost here.

The third is a small pink spring and early summer bloomer.
It is a climber, and I have to battle black spot and powder mildew on it each year. It surrounds a few of the old trees here, and varies in the shades of pink it produces. I still have no idea what it is, but I love it.

I am working on rooting some cuttings from all 3 of them, as I want to mulitply them here, and be able to share some also.

Brenda