Just gorgeous and SO healthy looking!

Amazing .. so many blooms, and the color is outstanding. Carol, best bush of Grand Dame ever !! I had the chance to buy it, but I switched to Neil Diamond since Grand Dame is less hardy, and I would have to winterize in my garage.

I'm OK, Neil Diamond's scent knocks my socks off, even more fragrant than Firefighter. Please let me know how Grand Dame survive winter compare to others, thanks.

Straw, since I overwinter all my roses in pots in the garage, I never have a problem with them surviving winter. So I can't really help you with that.

In comparison to Grande Dame, I have a Neil Diamond which hasn't done much of anything...but then it was new last year.

I agree with you on this being a fabulous rose!! I love the color and everything about it. And the scent is starting to waft and has gotten better than last year. And Grande Dame has bloomed like that ALL summer even through the rain. It's fabulous!

Vaporvac - we're blessed here with healthy plants. Disease isn't something that happens very often if ever. :) Thank you for your kind words.

Carol

I really like this thread...

A question has been asked,

"Why you should grow Grande Dame!!"

And how beautifully and comprehensively the five following photos answer the question...... very nice. It made my day.

Now..... how should I get this rose??? It's absolutely fabulous.

Khalid, your response is so poetic!!

I sure hope you can find it! A bonus with this rose is that the blooms last for weeks even through torrential rain!! I don't know about your hotter temps though. :)

I'm so happy you enjoyed looking at my roses!!

Carol

Anna - another Grande Dame grown in a pot!! Yours looks wonderful too!! One thing I really love about GD is that there are always more buds coming...I see that with yours too! Awesome!

Carol

OMGosh. I was considering Flamenco Rosita and Ascot, but now have to add GD to the list for next year's choices. Can't believe those are in pots! How big are they?

Vaporvac - How big are the pots? Ummm...I'm not very good with measuring volume. LOL

We just had a wind storm that was terrible. People driving had to really steer against the wind. It knocked over this long lid I had on my worm bin. The lid was weighted down with a brick. I had lots of pots of peas and beans that were knocked over. Yet, all the blooms on GD are still there. A few of the canes have been way over though.

Carol

Anna's Grand Dame looks really good, so vigorous with dark-green & very healthy leaves and vibrant bloom-colors .. Still kick myself for not getting Grand Dame ... I had the chance to buy it this past 1/2 sale at Roses Unlimited.

A half price sale!!! Ooohh...too bad you missed it.

Carol

Straw: maybe next year :)

vaporvac: it is 7 gal pot.

Carol wrote: "I sure hope you can find it! A bonus with this rose is that the blooms last for weeks even through torrential rain!! I don't know about your hotter temps though."

Carol, long bloom life is a great quality that any rose might have. As for its performance in hot climate, I have seen that roses that perform well in cold climate do well in hot climate too. And roses that are not hardy for cold climate are mediocre performers in hot climate also. So based on this experience, I would hope that GD will perform well in my climate too. NOW, how to get it????? Anna's wonderful photo of GD further enhances my desire...... I think I will have to import it from UK or Germany.

best regards

Khalid: I am sure GD will do great in your climate. It will benefit you with tons of blooms and sweet old rose fragrance. It is black spot and mildew resistant. I never had problem with her foliage. So easy to grow with no effort.

Khalid, this is one I mentioned in another post as being superlative in 95 degree heat and intense sun. Not quite as hot as your temps, but enough to test most roses. I saw it at the Columbus Park of Roses and noted its beautiful non-fading, non-bluing flowers, strong and healthy foliage and outstanding fragrance that held up to the heat. A truly beautiful rose.

It was one of the top four along with Sugar Moon, White Licorice, and Navy Lady (not as fragrant, but a beautiful healthy deep red).

Vaporvac: I would love to see your Sugar Moon pic. I am deciding between SM and Full Sail- in a tree form

I'll post pics when the new buds open. The current ones are too thrippy. Even my DH forgives this rose for not being red as she's so beautiful and fragrant! :) The red stigmas are over-the-top sweet and set of her luscious blooms. She's a gentle white, not as stark as PJP ll. I think SM can grow much taller than FS. The petals also have real substance and have held up surprisingly well to our recent torrential downpours.

Carol, that is one stunning rose! Lovely flowers & so many of them!

Thanks, Bluegirl!! Right now it's not as pretty - it got attacked by a wind storm. But it still looks really good!! This rose can withstand a lot of rain/hail/wind damage.

Carol

Anna and vaporvac: Thanks for your recommendation. Now, Grand Dame (along with Dee-lish and Comte de Chambord) are on top of my wish list but all three are not available to me locally. Hope I get them somehow....

best regards

I am enjoying GD amazing fragrance.

Anna - Those are beautiful!!! A real recommendation for this rose!! I admit that the fragrance here is elusive...maybe it needs a few more years or maybe it needs heat to bring out the fragrance?? Gorgeous!!

Carol

Thank you Carol. The heat definitely has lots to do with the fragrance. My first flush in Fabruary didn't have any scent.

Ah...that makes sense....we didn't get any hotter than 75F. Darn.

Just to show you how long Grande Dame lasts - here's the same set of flowers. Unfortunately they got hammered by hail. But if your climate doesn't get serious, thundering rainstorms or hail...it might look beautiful for a long time.

Carol

Wondering how it will do on its own roots, in Florida... Guess I'll have to find out. Its right up my alley, beautiful, fragrant, no plant patent and according to help-me-find disease resistant. Thanks for posting, it's truly a beautiful rose.

You're welcome!!! It's nice to be an enabler. :) Tee hee!

Carol

Wow you are enablers for sure hee hee, another rose in my wishlist :-D Rosecanadian your pictures of GD made me smile, such a beautiful color and shape, I am a newbie and I just dream about having roses flushing like this someday...Thanks for sharing!

Aww...you're welcome and thank you!! I look forward to seeing your pictures now and in the future. You will get there, and we'll all be oohing and ahhing over your pics. :)

Carol