WELCOME!!! You've come to the right place to save yourself a whole lot of heartache in the rose dept. I used to think that roses didn't do well for me in L.A. Airport adjacent because I didn't spray for fungus regularly enough. After all, what I bought locally should all do well for me, right??? So, so wrong. I learned here, that I just needed to buy roses that are resistant to fungus (we have a VERY heavy mildew burden here). ***I didn't need to spray*** Who knew??? While I honestly don't like to spray for environmental reasons, if I'm going to be honest, I'm not structured enough to do it on the strict schedule required. Something to think about - once the leaves get mildew, you can't 'fix' them. But guess what? There are lots of choices anyway! And, I'm afraid, it's just another area of one's life where one should be a careful consumer at the local store. Of the modern roses, I think you may learn to appreciate florabundas. Very pretty landscape plants, often in your size range. I'd like to suggest Walking On Sunshine. I got it in spring of last year on Jeri's advice and it has been just amazing. About 3' round in our garden and always in bloom. Lovely saturated yellow, but fading to a still lovely creamy yellow that doesn't look faded. Also a nice scent. Wouldn't be without it now. Armstrong's should have it when they get roses in next year. If you have the room (depending on soil), I'd heartily recommend Golden Celebration as well. I call the blooms 'happy blooms' and I really like the smell as well. Your mileage may vary. Depending on your soil, size may vary. When I was LAX adjacent, it never got more than 4' in sandy loam and half day sun. Three miles inland in amended clay, it wants to be 6' tall (or better when the DH fertilizes the adjacent lawn ;-) It's not great in all parts of the country, but here it really shines, imho (and if Jeri agrees, enough said ;-) Lemme see... Our Julia Child was an experiment and I'd get it again. It is tall as the other poster said. It also fades well, not a common trait among yellows. Reminds me of Julia cutting into her favorite food, butter, new ones are like the outside of a stick of butter and older ones are like the inside. There are lots of others we can explore here. The only other advice I'd say is that roses aren't hard if they're the right roses in the right place. In fact, roses are a great hobby/passion and have wonderful history. Just don't get the ones labeled 'red' or 'white' or 'yellow' ;-) Oh, one other thing to think about. I would bet, if you got America late season, that it didn't have mildew because it was sprayed at the producer. Just a thought.

Sorry you're going to miss the blooms. I'm still waiting for blooms. If my brug was about to bloom and I had to leave, I would almost take it with me. LOL Maybe someone can take pics for you while you are away. On any account...Enjoy your camping trip. Deb

Thanks miketann and ken_adrian for your comments. I think both of your diagnosis are correct. Looks like I neglected to rough up the root ball. =( I planted six of them altogether and the other five are fine, so mea culpa. Sorry, plant. Its now removed, cut back, and spending time in a recovery pot. @ken, funny thing about your comment -- about enjoy looking at it all Summer. My wife said, "I didn't know how to tell you but... I really didn't like it there." She thought there was too much symmetry going on along that fence and she's probably right. First pic shows the state of it after I removed it, second pic is close up of the rootball that I failed to break up, and third pic is plant in rehab showing what I paid for it. Yikes.

Thanks Luis for your reply. It is interesting to see that Yuletide has more colour variations out there. Although I was hoping that I could add a red camellia to my already quite crowded array of pink ones, the pink that my Yuletide has is in a more paler/watercolour shade, different from the rest. I certainly don’t mind its colour. I also noticed that all the pink flowers came from one of the three plants in the same container that I bought. The other two plants haven’t bloomed yet, but let’s see if they will be in red when they do.