Oh, Ann. I would wish all your roses immunity from now until forever, especially the most treasured ones. They are much more than garden plants. The sneaky relentlessness of this contagion is enough to make a rose gardener stark raving mad! Here's hoping for our friend science to point toward a light in the tunnel and for everyone in horticultural and agricultural fields to recognize and act on this very real and voracious threat. Thank you so much for all your contributions to our learning on this forum! Erasmus, I applaud your method and thoughts on RRD spread. I think you are spot on about vigilance. Wildfires start with a cigarette, firecracker or downed power line. Identifying and properly removing and disposing of the first spark can go a long way toward containment as we work toward eradication. Any large monoculture planting can cause huge ecological problems, and a swathe of roses which potentially hosts RRD can become one of the ugliest of ornamental disasters! No plant is maintenance free, but installing roses--Knockouts or any other "disease resistant" variety--in an unsupervised area is especially foolhardy. The marketing implication "plant, water, whack and ignore" can produce devastating consequences for the entire community and far beyond. Genetics may eventually unlock extremely useful information for future breeding and cultivation, but it's not going to alter the current course of this disease. Installing plantings of roses without continuous educated oversight and care is just asking for trouble. Even individual roses strung across private gardens can creat pathways of infection. Residential gardeners, along with every landscaping company and nursery, need to receive four alarm information about RRD. And then there are the unaddressed fields of "wild roses" which are not closely monitored by the highway or agricultural depts. In order to truly contain and eliminate this epidemic, we need to treat it like the plague it is. Observation, containment, elimination, eradication. Carol

Linda - if you join the web site "Help Me Find Roses", you can find the information about what nurseries are selling this rose. HMF says that it is commercially available, but you have to join to find the extended nursery list. Jackie

I ran a search on Cocktail and it threw up two comments by you, saying it's healthy. that was on a threat on rust free roses. On another thread from some years back, you mentioned that you had it for 20 years. Sounds like a great rose. I'd like to plant it in my garden, zone 9 or 10, high humidity. It'll be in part shade. Would it work? I couldn't find out your zone, and any comment and info would be a great help to me. I'll also be very grateful for comments by anyone who grows or ever grew this rose. Thanks!

Rogue Valley has it in stock right now ;) Table Mountain at Rogue Valley