I vote yes. Beautiful.

They will survive I grow them here in northern Illinois. Beautiful photo of a beautiful rose. The only thing that could possibly kill them in your type of winter is if they are grafted. Then if the graft is above ground instead of buried it is possible for the graft too be winter killed. If your roses are grafted and above ground level they will need protected.

They'll be fine. You'll probably have winter die back on those tender new canes but the plant will survive. Your roses look beautiful!

For you zone 5-6 folks is Julia Child own root generally crown hardy in those climates or does it require protection?

Actually, we are zone 6b, moving in to 7. I've never had to protect a rise and never lost one to cold before.

These will do great for you then. Wishing for a warmer winter here. I love to have cane left on JJ in spring.

Love the beautiful, rich color of your Julia. I'm missing mine right now. Julia Child buds dry beautifully, too, and reveal all the dark rose/red that lurks in the pigments of the petals, which then emerge when the weather is cold, but not freezing. Diane

How fo you dry your buds?

This is Julia Child in the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden. 310 days of sunshine a year. Gotta love San Jose!

Holy freakin' cow!!!!!! That's unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lainey - your JC is stunning. Love the color!!! Love the flowers!!

The San Jose picture, though, is like it's from another planet altogether.

I am in AWE!

Carol

Julia Child is beautiful as a young or mature plant. It is my only floribunda baby that produces large blooms. Lainey, I love your photo by the rock wall. The San Jose photo is Julia Child heaven. Amazing. Here's my little one.

Lainey, ain't it the truth: "..we live on a different planet". Not only did my JC never look like the ones in SJMRG, Julia Child is the ONLY rose I've managed to kill three times. She hates me. You have no idea how envious I am of those pix.

John

...does anyone know the way to San Jose...? [sorry].. but perhaps I ought to move..

....I have 'Julia Child' arriving tomorrow, unfortunately under its rather godawful name they've given it here 'Absolutely Fabulous', although looking at that photo, maybe it's more appropriate than I ever thought...

..I'll be happy if it gets half that size.... well, I hope I have more success than John above here - how unfortunate is that...?... my sympathies....

Marlorena, I have no doubt JC will do well for you. She seems to flourish just about everywhere...but here. I just wish I knew why she won't grow for ME, lol. I grow teas that shouldn't survive here, I have noisettes that "aren't hardy" and more than a few finicky rarities that look like they're on steroids. But I can't grow JC.

John

They should have a thumbs down for that sad news John.

But it sounds like you have a lovely garden, John.

...whoever that man is standing in the middle of those 'Julia Child' roses deserves a medal....I mean, just how did he get in there?... my bare root rose arrived today and my goodness, what a thorny creature it is... I'm having a rethink as to just where to plant it now as it's not one I'd want to mess with too much.... it better be good... here's hoping....

And to think, I lived in San Jose for several years (as an idiot college student), and didn't care a hoot about roses at the time. Now I want to go back to visit the Heritage and Municipal rose gardens both. Loved the weather there, and I remember lots of beautiful private garden in the older part of town.

Getting back to your question about drying roses, lainey, I'm not sure my laid back method will work in your more humid Virginia climate; I live in a very dry semi arid desert environment. My first method involves running outside just before a really bad freeze that probably will usher in a long cold blast. I cut off all the buds I'm interested in drying, plus any half opened blooms I want, and lay them out flat on paper towels on my potting bench in the garage (it's really a huge old china cabinet). I let the buds stay on the paper towels till they are dry. Then I store them in those flat, lidded plastic storage boxes. They last indefinitely this way. My second method is "the lazy gardener who is also a bad housekeeper" method. I pick numerous small rose bouquets during the growing season, and arrange them in teacups, small pitchers, and vases. They are scattered around the house. Then you forget about them until the buds and roses are dry, still in these little containers. You can remove those want to keep and put them in the storage boxes, or you can leave them indefinitely in the teacups, etc, and using the little bouquets only as dried arrangements. I'm looking at a little demitasse cup that has had a dried pink rose in it for years. Still looks OK. I warned you this was the lazy person's method! Diane

Lainey, heehee. We know the secrets of "no work" flower drying. Diane

Marlorena, I accidentally bought a Julia Child as Absolutely Fabulous - it was abuy five get a sixth or something. It's still in a pot, because like Lady Marmalade, it's a much hyped rose that is also a thorny beast, and I too have struggled to place it. I've not been hugely impressd by either of them tbh - although to give her her due, Lady M is still trying to bloom despite inadeqate pot and total leaflessness at the moment. JC has had some dieback - I'm wondering if it's going to be the first rose that actually ups and dies in my garden, which will be a new experience I guess.

For me, the hype is true about Julia Child. I also don't find her anymore thorny than most of my other roses. In fact, there are lots that are worse (Tamora, anyone? And I have to transplant her this spring. Not looking forward to that, for sure). Diane

..oh that wonderful photo again Diane... it's difficult not to fall in love with that... lovely house too, I like the buttermilk colour to the walls there... if that's the right shade..

fduk.... I do wonder if JC prefers a warmer summer than we can offer, I mean we don't really have a climate here - just weather... but I shall find somewhere for it before the end of winter... it's potted up for now...

...I've not taken to Lady Marmalade from what I've seen of it, but there's another recent introduction, one of the Harkness breed called 'Pride and Prejudice' that keeps catching my eye.... not really my types of roses, but the more I see it the more I want it.... it was bred and named at the request of the Jane Austen Society... I wonder if you've seen it at all, in passing... you know?

Here are a couple of pics of Julia as a standard. The last one was a night photo. She is now at our old house which is under contract so I can't always get over there during the day. The night photo is of her blooming just a few days ago in January. The day photos were taken in August. She can certainly take the heat and humidity of my area.

Diane, your photos of Julia Child were actually what prompted me to discover I already had it as Absolutely Fabulous! And dollfanz, yours are glorious too. Maybe at the weekend I'll take a picture of my sad looking stick, so you can see what I mean.
I personally think Marlorena probably has it right and it'd prefer more sunshine than we can supply here.

I bought Lady Marmalade based on rave reviews before I nerved myself to completely gut my orange bed, and now I'm kind of stumped as to where to put it as I don't need any more modern roses there now. It may stay potted for a while until I can make up my mind - in winter it's no hardship to have pots since they don't need watering!

As for Pride and Prejudice, I have seen it - it looks very pretty and the name is tempting - but right now I am seriously trying to keep what little pink space I have left for something really special. What, I'm not sure tbh, but seriously, I have enough to plant anyway to be going on with!!

Yes, fduk, please show us pics of your stick of a Julia. Maybe we might come up with some suggestions for her--perhaps some extra fertilizer (as if you don't already know about that). I wish you had the "Tones" fertilizer in the UK. That stuff is wonderful. Diane

fduk, for what it's worth my first try at Julia Child was sum what like yours. I started with three of them. In their third year I could not take any longer and began too dig them up. They did not grow well and defoliated every year from black spot. Mine where own root. I dug up the first two and thru them near the compost pile. Did not have the heart too pitch the last one. So I moved it too the empty lot. There it could do what it wished without bothering me.

Yeah, It change from a mouse into a princess.She now showed no disease and has beautiful blooms. I just sighed telling her I suppose if I move you back too the yard you will not look like this.

She stayed in the lot for years. I'm reasonably sure the only difference was the amount of sun. She's now back in the yard as a neighbors tree finally grew too large. Another neighbor removed a tree providing a very sunny spot in the yard. Mine will never resemble Diane's beauty or that in San Jose ect. but she is now a beauty in her own right. Finally bought 4 more.

Wow, Patty, that's interesting. I'm glad you figured out the problem, and I'm envious of all the space you must have for roses. Lack of sun is currently hurting three of my Evelyn's and killing a Memorial Day. In a small yard like mine, it doesn't take much of a tree to adversely affect roses. Diane

Another shot of Julia Child (on left) with Rainbow Sorbet (on right) Celebrity in background (with volunteer deadheading)

Hope we get more sunshine in 2016.

So what do you all think of Julia Child's fragrance??

Carol

In my garden: In December, the scent was intense, less so in hot weather, but always there.

I am the only person on this whole forum who got rid of Julia Child. I didn't give it a fair chance. This was before I read all the good comments from here. Dang. I had it for only one year and got rid of it. Shame on me. Mine didn't have fragrance and was underwhelming. Darn, darn, darn.

Carol

I can only smell Julia Child when I put my sniffer straight into the bloom (checking for insects first). It smells very pleasant.

Maybe I should try it again. The pictures of it on this forum are out of this world.

Carol