The most beautiful of all roses, IMHO.

Thanks for the info! Are you in zone 6a or 6b? I want to plant mine in the garden, have too many pots already. I have 2 SGM.

I love this rose -- but then, I'm on the SoCal coast . . .

Summers, I am in 6a .

Cath

Thanks Cath! I will put mine in the garden this weekend. :-)

Jeri, thanks to your beautiful photos of SGM, I have to grow some to experience the fragrance. :-)

Wow that's awesome. I must get one of those if the bees love them so much. They adore Mermaid too. Easy to get to the pollen on those nice single blooms.

Our bees, to date, are all nice gentle honeybees, and I love watching them dance around the roses.

Secret Garden Musk Climber still lives in its 10th year in my zone 5b Swedish garden. I expect it to die every year. It rarely blooms and if it does the blooms are far down but it throws out enormously long thorny shoots all over. The past winter has been very mild and dry so I have hopes that this summer it will finally flower well. This rose is an anomaly in my garden and my climate but I don't have the heart to throw it out although it is much in the way. I don't feed it, don't cover it, I just wait for it to finally die but still greet it with pleasure every spring.

Mariannese -- You are a brave and determined lady. I salute you!

I gave up on mine, which was the second attempt at growing it here. In its place, I planted 'Wedding Day' which, while once-blooming, will give me the musk-climber look I wanted for that corner.

:-)

~Christopher

Jeri, what a lovely photo! You love wind chimes too!

Chris, if I remember it right, yours didn't make through the winter..,,,,, I think you have told me once, and that was the reason I kept mine in pots. You're in a warmer zone than here.

Yes, the first one died after that polar vortex Winter of 2013-2014. I replaced it, but it kept getting hit hard by Winter. This year, I cut it to the ground, and planted 'Wedding Day' next to it. If it comes back, it'll have to fight it out with WD.

I think it was more the freeze-thaw-freeze-thaw of our transitions to Spring that did it in more than the absolute coldest temperature reached.

:-)

~Christopher

We DO love windchimes. And most of those, believe it or not, have been here for a good 20 years.

Summers,

The Secret Garden Musk is in heavy clay on a steep slope facing southwest under mature trees that have been limbed up. The tree branches may temper heat radiation and help with winter survival. If it were me, I would keep at least one SGM in a pot until I saw how they did over winter in my garden.

By way of example: This winter one of my Mme Alfred Carriers retained all of its canes and the other one lost all of its canes (both survived). Both were under tall trees but one was on one side of the garden and the other was on the opposite. There is so much variability especially when we are pushing envelopes and that is too much fun to give up.

Cath

Thanks Chris and Cath, I was just thinking about that. Keep one in the pot, and plant one by the east facing wall away from the weather ( west wind). I will try anything to smell the fragrance of SGM. :-)