I have three. I ordered the third when two I have on either side of an arch were failing due to a fungal cane die-back disease. In my opinion, you can't have too many of this rose. Love, love, love it, even though it's not particulary good in a vase. The two on the arch have recovered after treatment and are in full bloom right now. The new one is quite small but smothered in blooms. The color of this rose is amazingly beautiful. I thought Crepuscule was supposed to get huge, but it is a slow grower here. On it's own root in Fl. I'm not sure how big it will get. If I had it on Fortuniana, it would probably get enormous. You done good. It will be interesting to see which ones start off the fastest. Mine were all in gallon pots when I got them.

I've actually checked the plants with the Weeks label at our local nursery this spring. Yes, it's a small nursery, but they were selling "bare root" plants from Weeks. My thought was that I was going to go ahead and purchase roses that were in the field before Weeks went bankrupt and I would still be able to get good quality plants. I was almost right. The bud union looked great and the top growth .. the canes from the bud union .. looked healthy and strong. Then I pulled the plant out of the sand where the nursery was keeping their bare root plants to look at the roots. I almost cried. The root system was nothing like the bare root roses from Weeks that I had purchased in the past. I even wonder if the roses were budded to Dr. Huey. There was ONE anchor root and a lot of very small roots growing under the bud union that were about six inches long. I checked several of the roses and they were all like that. I couldn't make myself pay a premium price for a plant like that. Yes, I think I could have managed to "save" the rose, but I was so disappointed in what I saw that I didn't even want to try. The quality was so poor compared to what I had purchased in the past as a Weeks rose. When I checked other quality nursery's stock, I found the same thing. A couple of those nurseries had already planted the roses in containers long before bare root season was supposed to be over so that customers could not see the root system. Now the question becomes which roses that have been tested as budded roses and previously marketed as budded roses will do well own root. I agree with Kim, purchase your new roses from people who really know their roses. Not Smiling, Lyn

I'd probably hesitate a moment or two if the rose name evoked a negative reaction. And the marketers are aware of this. They don't want to have a namesake which most people would avoid. For example, years ago there was a cute lil' rose bush named after someone in the royal British family. "Fergie" to be exact. Welllll, soon after the introduction of that rose the real Fergie was photographed poolside while having her toes sucked by someone (not her husband). Needless to say this created a hubbub in the news and a somewhat negative association with the rose shrub. The marketers quickly changed the name of the shrub to "Sunseeker". That cracks me up every time I think of it. But while we have grown accustomed to the names of our roses, non-rose fanatics are simply unaware and my friends find it wildly amusing when I say something like, "That's George Burns! Isn't he looking good this year?" What IS in a name anyway? My last name is Butcher and it's prevented me from seeking employment as a baby sitter, veterinarian or even a medical examiner. But it is a great name for a hockey player.

It's OK, Harborose, I did chuckle at your jest and I have been victimized by thieves. Let's not lose our sense of humor here, please. After all if we can't laugh surely we'll be crying. And I hate when that happens! My brother wants to get security cameras for the yard. For several years now, besides the roses being stolen, we've had our apple trees stripped clean of fruit either at night sometime or when we weren't at home for some reason. We use those apples for cooking all winter long and were very upset by the thought that someone climbed, and we think shook, the trees to get every last one down. The shaking is bad for the trees and my fear is some idiot will fall and then have the gall to sue us! We're pretty sure they went as deer bait no less because we've had several guys stop and ask if they could have them for that purpose. I really missed my applesauce, baked and apple pies the first year. Since then we've been trying to pick them earlier. They're not as sweet but at least we get some.