New Dawn, if it is New Dawn, should repeat. I have rooted many for my neighbors. However, they do like a steady diet and should they revert to Dr. Van Fleet, which many have done that I have rooted and mine has also done, it will only bloom once but might in some strange conditions of excess rain, change in temperatures, a little cool spell in summer, or warmer in fall, repeat bloom. I think there was a long conversation on Antique Rose forum about New Dawn once and the consensus was that if you rooted a piece of it (how are you to know) that has reverted to Dr. Van Fleet, it will be a once-bloomer. However, if that piece has not reverted and is still New Dawn, it will repeat bloom. I have several neighbors and friends whose repeat very well (that I rooted). Others, like mine, bloom but once. Mine blooms once. That's it. In the first few years, it repeated but now no repeat whatsoever. It's about 20 years old. I have rooted dozens for people from this one plant, some which repeat, some which do not.

Thanks everybody! I'm pretty tickled as these are my first roses. The trellis' are 3/8" thick steel and they are the scrap pieces left when smaller squares of steel plate were cut from it. I have a local metal worker who after paying the bills with boring stuff is a found object artist and he had the pieces lying around. He simply welded the side rails on them and we stuck them over 3 feet deep into the ground. They are about 8" from the wall which it concrete hardi-board. So it's about as sturdy and indestructible as you can make something. I hope. If anybody is in the area (Mid TN) I'd be happy to send you his contact--these are one of a kinds but he's brilliant, creative and pretty affordable. The roses are now about 7'. I have almost 35 feet from side to side for them to spread, 12 feet from the ground to the top of the roofs and the range for them I've read is 10-20 feet. Surely that's enough space? If it isn't and I'm lucky enough that the RRD doesn't get them first I guess I'll chalk it up to a learning experience and whack her back! So my plan will be to let the big new canes work themselves on up toward the roofs, let the older canes fill out the top of the trellis and keep tucking the strays back on to the trellis. Perfect. Fortunately the doors are not heavy traffic ones so maybe we can keep the shredded clothes to a minimum. She does have some serious thorns and a bit of an attitude! ;-) Any suggestions for gloves? Thanks to everybody here. I'd have never figured out any of this without the pointers and advice. I've got 8 bands in pots out in the kitchen garden so I'm counting on you!!

I put one in about the same time but it was a potted bush from antique rose emporium and it has had bloomes. Now the flowers were really small and so far I have new canes about three feet long but really small in diameter. I have found that the first year you plant a rose bush you should not expect much. The bush has to establish a root system before it can do much of anything and bare root bushes will take time to do so. I prefer bare root bushes myself and exoect the first season to be slim. If you are getting good growth that's all you can expect. Next season should be much better and the third season should be great. ND is a really good bush. I have a white dawn that's about 6 or 7 years old and it has 5 good blooming cycles a year. All I do is feed it and deadhead it and it keeps on blooming. New Dawn should do the same.

Hi Everybody! So sorry I haven't been back for so long - I really don't know where the times goes. Thank you all for your input. Since I last posted, I have noticed a few buds, maybe 8 (!) on the whole plant. One has opened the proper light pink. Last year I had dieback down to about 3 feet, but it grew back like gangbusters, just as yours did, Mary, but no blooms at all. This spring, there was just a little tip damage, so I assumed I would get a wonderful show, it being the fourth year since planting. Even the second year, when it actually bloomed well, it never repeated, and so I thought then that perhaps I had Dr. Van Fleet. Does DVF form buds and bloom much later than New Dawn? Would it possibly form buds gradually, or only all at once? Thanks so much for your help, Judith