I don't know about EVERY garden but I definitely think it deserves a space in mine, any more info like disease-resistance & height? I believe our climates are quite similar. Gorgeous pix. Thanks.

Jane

Gorgeous. My band of Cornelia is still in a gallon pot here, having her buds pinched out, lol. I hope to get her planted soon, but we're about to have a heatwave so I'm putting it off. Hopefully it will cool off again before summer sets in for good and I can look forward to blooms like yours, Marlorena. Again, it's gorgeous.

John

Marlorena that's beautiful. Mine is in the end of its long flush by now. It is in partial shade and whatever sun it gets it is dappled by nearby olive and cypress trees so not as floriferous as yours but still it did have quite an impressive flush this spring. I must say it took it three and a half years in the ground planted as a grafted bareroot to produce its first real flush.

Quite wonderful catspa, it's a fabulous rose.

Thanks everyone, I'm glad you like my rose.

Jane [smithdale].. like catspa, my rose is healthy overall, a bit of black spot late in the season. Height wise, it's much wider than tall, but I have to keep my roses in check [boundaries]... but this one put out a long cane about 8 foot or so and I've let that ramble into the shrub next to it. I like its character.. it's a kind of a semi rambler.. or quasi climber as catspa says... I like that term...

John/Nik, thanks... and I hope we see some lovely photos of your rose in due course.. I think it's great to compare these things..

Beautiful! The flowers on it are utterly charming! Love the golden eye.

I love 'Cornelia': habit, foliage, flowers, scent are all wonderful. My neighbors have it espaliered against a wall with a northwest exposure; it's about 6' x 15', showing off its talents as a pocket rambler. As a shrub it's a decidedly lax grower.

It's been here for years ... never did well. Hasn't bloomed a lot for a good 10 years.

Then, this spring, it hunkered down and bloomed like mad. I have no
idea why -- unless it actually heard me proposing that its location
would be a good place for a plumeria . . .

I have a fairly new Cornelia that put out a smattering of spring blooms but hasn't done anything else--although it is looking healthy enough. I can't wait for it to mature and put on a display like yours, marlorena--and catspa and jeri. Yours all look wonderful--just what I want for that spot in my garden!

Kate

Kate, I found mine slow to start, it took 2 seasons before mine took off...

Jeri, yours looks huge and full of character, healthy too... I'm delighted that it's flowering for you once again...

You know what I did, Marlorena . . . It had two good years. Then, some ARS types convinced me that it needed a "real pruning."
So I did.
It "sulked" for about 10 years.
THAT won't happen again!
I hope it's now happy again.

Someone -- I forget who -- told me perhaps 25 years ago that 'Cornelia', perhaps more than any other rose, flowers predominantly on downward-pointing shoot tips. So if you train it upward, it won't bloom much until it reaches the top and then cascades outward (and downward) from there. THEN it will flower heavily. I've found that to be rather true. We grow it as an 8' pillar, and I like it that way.

Malcolm, I think you're right on target.

'Cornelia' is easy from cuttings and grows fine on its own roots.

I best not prune mine too much then Jeri/Malcolm.. thanks for your advice..

..it's one of the best roses in my garden right now... maybe not so great in the Autumn..

Such beautiful masses of blooms. my Cornelia WA eaten to the bottom of the main stem, rooted again and is looking happy again but no blooms yet. Penelope, who was left alone by the cutters has just started blooming, a gorgeous cousin.

Marlorena, in my experience Hybrid Musks absolutely require renewal pruning: not reducing the length of canes, but removal of a certain number of the oldest canes every year. Otherwise the plants peter out and die. Other canes should be left alone, or, I suppose, could be shortened. This comes from a gardener who doesn't prune unless she considers it necessary, and it was learned the hard way.

..thank you Melissa for your advice, that would be my normal mode of operation, certainly with Austin's - quite ruthless in fact - but with older ones I tend to leave them for sometimes too long. I've yet to remove a single cane of this rose...so I'm a little reluctant, and I wasn't aware any would peter out and die though, so I must see what the rose wants me to do... my favoured time for pruning is after the first flush..