@Lala Idaho Zone 7a Love your Moonlight in Paris photos! Very beautiful your first year! So pink, peachy, yellow , creams-colorful and many blooms! They do really well in pots! Yours has all the colors! It’s that time of year for her to show off! Your leaves are so healthy, too!!! Thank you for sharing! Your gardens are always so lovely! Missed hearing from you. Join us in Seasonal thread and show us your gardens? Most of my roses are small first year, but some actually grow 5 ft, too. Moonlight was small in the ground first year up to 3 1/2 ft. 2nd year MIP is now 4 1/2 ft and 3 ft wide. HMF says it can grow 5ft. I have it in a morning sun spot and I know if it had more sun it would be taller & wider! However, it does well and really is nice by front porch! I think I will expand some “really sunny spot garden bed areas,” on my propety next spring adding roses to them that will do well with more sun. I’ll expand my back yard T-bed and circular veggie bed to have more roses! I think I’d like a second MIP and put it in the sunniest location to see how grand it could get.

KJ (9B, San Jose CA) Roses that do well in my extreme cold & zone 5a, also do well in extreme heat. That's why I hang out in Facebook group with Khalid in Pakistan, zone 9b with his temp. at above 110 F. Vanessa Bell is mentioned as an outstanding performer by Peter Schneider in Freedom Gardens rose nursery, zone 6. Vanessa Bell is also mentioned as the best Austin by a friend nearby who has over 120 roses. I don't buy Vanessa Bell since I'm into best scent and roses that last long in the vase. For soft yellow with super healthy & dark green and glossy foliage (never see mildew), plus fantastic scent like caramel candy, plus lasting long in the vase, plus big bloom at 4" across, is Tchaikovsky shrub. It's classified as floribunda/grandiflora so it's bushier and generous with blooms, even in partial shade. Roses with firm petals that last long in the vase can take hot sun better. I like Tchaikovsky way more than Moonlight Romantica (very stingy and needs week-long rain to bloom). Dark green leaves like Tchaikovsky can bloom well even with alkaline tap water. Its patent is expired, so I can root it like other roses: Evelyn, Abe. Darby, W.S. 2000, Spirit of Freedom, Mary Magdalene, Radio Times, Christopher Marlowe, August Luis, Sonia Rykiel, James Galway, the Squire, the Dark Lady, Golden Cel., Gertrude Jekyll. All money received goes to charities (Catholic nuns who work with the poor). I find that French roses like Tchaikovsky can take my rock hard clay & hot summer & cold winter better than Austin water hogs. See below 10th-year own-root Tchaikovsky in my zone 5a garden, in 3 to 4 hours of sun, compact as own-root at 3' x 2' and doesn't consume much water. Below is Tchaikovsky to compare with other large blooms (Peter Mayle at 4.5" across), Upper pink Kiss me Kate, left is Sweet Mademoiselle, deep purple is Twilight Zone). Yellow Tchaikovsky is the runner up at 4" across, bigger and more petals than Augusta Luis at bottom.

That is tough. My Moonlight in Paris (gone now) did have times of the year when it had a low petal count and the color wasn't as I had hoped. That's why I removed it. Here are some photos of it with less petals, kind of looks like yours a bit It did have nicer times with more petals and better color, though. So maybe yours will have a fuller bloom when it finds the weather that it likes.

perhaps its sterile? ... i dont have time to research it for you ... this is the usual.. when a plant is normally propagated by cuttings.. rather than seed. most likely this cultivar was not due to seed mutation.. hence the vegetative propagation ... ken