Mine is an own root less than one year old, so too early to tell. I'm hoping for the best this summer.

I have two one in the ground for a year and shes been a blooming machine. Though my other PAOK I recently planted in the ground has been a bit slower to start. I love the blooms and fragrance..

Mine repeat very quickly..well once it finished blooming it stopped for a week or two and new buds form and the buds takes a few days to open. Two things I don't like about this rose are the blooms don't last long in a vase- age rather quickly and messy and the form and color of these blooms changes . But there were times when I get really huge perfect blooms and she's totally forgiven for her flaws. Have you tried giving her some good in organic fertilers like osmocote?

Mine was stingy the first year but then finally kicked in and had blooms all the time. Beautiful bloom.

I have 2 PAoKs they are grafted on DH and are still in large pots. They are good bloomers here but my conditions are more humid. We do get pretty warm here in the summers though. we hit 100F a few times last summer but it is generally in the 90's during the dog days of summer here. It usually rains a lot in the summers, maybe PAoK just wants more water? My Austins in general seem to want daily watering but then again most are in pots lol.

I've become disenchanted with PAoK, which I've grown at least four years, so she has had time to show her stuff. In spring, she has a huge flush of blooms which are quite large and fairly pretty. When our heat sets in, her blooms turn an awful bright coral orange with fewer petals. I understand that roses often produce smaller blooms with fewer petals when faced with our hot dry heat, but the bright coral orange is ghastly. I've considered cutting all the blooms off so I don't have to look at them. I wish PAoK would just shut down and not bloom at all when it's hot like some other roses do. As far as vigor goes, she's huge, especially wide, and gets plenty of water. She is grafted on DH. I wonder if my rose is the only one with this weird coloration problem. Diane

I also saw this tendency Diane and am hoping the second year coming soon will be better. I didn't see this highlighted before I bought mine, and think it is good you are mentioning it.

Nana and Sheila, it would be a public service if you'd take some pics of the off-color blooms and post on helpmefind.com. Often folks only photograph the blooms at their absolute best-- completely understandable.

I just offered PAOK to a pink-loving friend and I'm afraid I claimed that she had many of the good characteristics of Queen of Sweden. Ooops I lied!

My first year PAOK gave me a total of one flower last year (from Roses Unlimited), and it was a nondescript pink, small and of rather ordinary form. If it blooms bright coral orange like Nanadoll's, out it comes.

I tossed mine PAOK 2 weeks ago super stingy in my costal garden and also rusted after the spring only flush. Happy she is gone. Maybe she needs more heat....

I'll remember to take some photos this summer. I thought about it last year and then posting the awful photos as a joke---like "guess what rose this?". Izzy, the heat is what brought on the bright coral, so I don't think that's the answer in your case. My PAoK is such a space hog, poking into poor Munstead Wood. I keep thinking how much nicer that small bed would look with another Munstead Wood and the Astrid Grafin von Hardenberg I'm hoping to grow. What a sight that would be, minus PAoK, of course. Diane

I dont relly like the coral tones on PAOK.. I thought it was a pink rose. It's interesting to see why people would consider growing PAOK instead of Mary rose. I think its the name of the rose that sells and the year it was released. I personally wont even consider growing MR or Radio Times due to their simplistic names although I read that both are great pink roses. Fingers crossed that Boscobel would be a better rose than PAOK.