I have one in a 10 gallon on Doc Huey that I got this spring. It is maybe 2 1/2 ft tall but has also sent out one cane that is almost 4 ft. I didn't know if it did it in response to my dumb roosters' obsession with plucking the buds off (they like to eat them) in order to get taller lol. Mine is in full sun here and seems to like it that way. I think it will get a decent size here.

Do you cut off your long canes or just let them do their thing? If it developed an arched mounding habit it would be pretty, I bet.

~SJN

My Munstead Wood (growing in z6 Kansas) is a couple years old and has stayed around 2.5x2.5 --but we've had a lot of rain lately and I noticed the other day that one cane took a growth spurt--about a foot taller than the others.

Will have to wait and watch to see what happens--but I really don't expect my MW to get more than 3x3 at most.

Kate

Mine is in it's third year and it's 4x4. It has only one problem. I like cut flowers and this thing is PACKED full of thorns. Makes it hard to get a hold of and cut.

Our climates are different, but I've been growing mine since 2008 and have maintained it as a 3x3 shrub with just some late winter pruning.

I have room for it to grow 4x4, so if it does, no problem. I would not want it to get much larger. I really do not want to move it yet again.

I too am zone 9. I have had mine on its own root for two years. It throws out long canes and for me, I have to keep it very well pruned to maintain it at about 4--5 feet.

MustBnuts, thanks, good to know.

Mine made some floppy 4' canes to begin with. I self-pegged them and later cut them in half after several laterals developed. It is developing into a dense shrub around 3 x 3 with shoots that stop to bloom rather than growing long. The structure is a little messy but is filling in nicely. For a neater (if slower) plant, you can just cut the longer shoots in half after blooming and follow traditional pruning principles.

Not a fan of pegging, which I tried one year with Deuil du Docteur Reynaud. That did indeed produce a gorgeous display, but was followed in this case by a plant with a messy structure that took me a couple of years to get back into a nice form. Besides it is so much work!

It does sound as though I have a lot of options to grow a plant that is big enough to have a presence in the garden, something I would like, without having a monster of a plant, which I would not. All this is based on me not moving it yet again.

Thanks to everyone who offered their experiences to the discussion.

Rosefolly