LOL....Good looking bloom...

It is really pretty!! I love how quickly it reblooms.

Love the edging!! Go Beverly!!

Carol

Gorgeous bloom, Kristine! I can relate!

She's new in my garden (and I planted her at the arboretum too). Nice vigor, good resistance and looks to be a nice bush. Looks like it will be shrubby, much better bush form than typical for an HT.

I've heard so many good things about Beverly. Is she a good cutflower and does she last well (in garden or vase)?

Beverly was all over Lowes this spring...I should have got one.

At this point I can really only go on what everyone else has said about Beverly. I see lots of pictures of Beverly in bouquets so I'm assuming that she holds up fairly well in a vase. Pretty excited about this one . She is awfully beautiful even though she took much longer than everyone else to get a bloom started

What a fun color.

There is always next year Ben lol

She is pretty hope the rose is a great one for you.

I'll let you k ow Moses. Sometimes a different zone makes a difference. Time will tell.

So far Savannah is a champ

Moses we have had Beverly in a trial garden in Montreal Canada for 8 years. No winter protection and have not lost a plant. At the time we put the trial there is was 4B but is now considered 5A (climate change).

Leaf twists and distortions may be a reaction to powdery mildew as she does have some susceptibility, but not to the extent to dropping leaves.

As far as the breeding program at Kordes it is the largest in the world so the idea that there is so much variability -of course there is! The program uses a lot of different genetics trying to find the perfect match of disease resistance and beauty. I think the variability is a positive thing. Lots of different types of roses to suit lots of different tastes in roses.

When I read your post above I thought we were going to hear about another shovel pruning. Glad to hear you are not that negative.

Yes you are free to pass on information on a public site - but so is everyone else including me. I am now a private person so I m free to give opinions as I see fit. You should read your posts over time because shovel pruning is a major theme. I really was not meaning to insult you, just teasing you about your quick judgements on roses.

When you write on a site it gives the impression that it is a final statement on hardiness, or beauty or performance. A gardener might take your authoritative statement as the truth about a rose when what you are expressing is what you just said - an opinion on how it works for you in your garden which may not be very accurate on how a rose will perform anywhere else. One rose in one garden is not statement of incontestable accuracy. It is why we trialed a multiple sites in many climates over many years. For me, 10 roses growing successfully over 8-10 years in Montreal is a good indication of hardiness zone which is why I added this to the discussion.

I often let statements I do not agree with pass by, but when someone is giving a statement on cold hardiness that we know not to be accurate I will make a comment if I have better more complete information.

Chris - Respectfully, your statement below means that none of us can make comments about anything we grow. I know that's not what you mean. :)

"When you write on a site it gives the impression that it is a final statement on hardiness, or beauty or performance. A gardener might take your authoritative statement as the truth about a rose..."

I agree with you...I think you were teasing. That's how I took it. :)

Carol

Carol, I am pretty sure I did not say that no one can have an opinion on roses on this site but rather one rose in one garden is not all that conclusive. I know a lot of consumers grow Beverly in gardens colder than western PA. I just added to the discussion of cold hardiness that we had some good data on cold hardiness that was long term with multiple rose bushes. For that matter we have put Beverly in many cold trials without problems.

I do stand by the idea that one rose bush is not the end all to whether it is hardy or even a good rose.

In my own gardens which is loaded with many types of plants and I subscribe to the idea that I will not say a plant cannot grow here unless I kill it 3 times. I seem to be committed to growing on the edge of hardiness for my zone
with eucalyptus, palms, cactus, agave and other species that may not survive in a wetter spot but can in a dry rocky location . There is so much variability about why plants are cold hardy.

There is a lot that goes on with the success of plantings that is not related to whether the genetics of the plant is good or not. It can fail for many reasons. Occasionally I will decide I did not think that particular genetics of a perennial was good, but I usually do not come to that conclusion without years of observation. I have formed some strong opinions about some recent perennial genetics that seem rushed into production without enough trialing.

In truth there are other comments I might not agree with about Beverly but they are just really questions of personal taste and I do not usually comment on these opinions because they are personal tastes.

So feel free to make all the comments you like - I do not control the site, but I do think I can make add information that I know freely too.

Kristine, I love her too! Thanks for sharing that photo. Interesting that the rose was selected by ARE in Brenham TX and also doing well for you in the Pacific NW.

AND she's great here in hot, humid SE Virginia; we're coastal with a climate very similar to that of Charleston SC! I have two plants in their first year, one in my garden and another I planted at the arboretum nearby.

I'm mad at them at the moment; I left town for 5 days and they both bloomed and I MISSED IT! DARN!

Peace. :)

Barbarag - I'm really excited to see how mine does in its 2nd year. Darn....don't you hate that! I hate leaving my garden...there's always something exciting happening. :)

Carol

I saw an earwig slithering in and out. The Battle is on suckers . Tonight my potion of oil and soy sauce will be your demise

Kristine, Earwigs are the biggest problem in my veggie garden - I just hate the suckers. There is Sluggo Plus that is a bait control for both slugs and earwigs - it has pretty much solved the problem and is organic too. They sell it at The Grange.

Thanks Chris. The biggest problem with my Concoction, even though it works, is that the local cats tend to eat it

Ewww

I feel the same way Chris, thank you

Just saw Beverly in a rose garden where I volunteer and it seemed to need some support as the canes were more horizontal. Could have been the placement in the garden under some pines, methinks. As I read thru the comments here, I chuckle to myself because it is obvious that there is a shared passion here which cannot be denied. Opinions may vary but the common bond is a love of roses.

My Beverly died -no fault of hers. I'll replace her at some point. I really loved her.

Anyone in Z 6a/b growing her? How is she for BS?

She’s beautiful! I wonder how she does in hot and dry So CA? Lisa

Even though I am a zone 8, we go all summer with no rain. It is over 100 most of the summer and sometimes much higher. Beverly did great here. I bet she would work well for you.

Ben, yes Beverly is a good cut flower. It has a sweet fragrance. The stems are long and almost thornless which are really easy to handle. They last 5 days in the vase (Not as long as DD, Granada, Evelyn, Kardinal etc but not too bad)

Forgot to mention the bush is dense and very disease resistant, unlike many other fragrant roses.

All excited now- I got a bare root Beverley last winter; its grown really well, ( sadly a bit of mildew already, but its by no means the only one, and other more established bushes are looking worse this year) and its got quite a few buds. Waiting, waiting.... hehe I have two DD and two Kardinals; looking at a mini posy of the first blooms on my coffee table right now..

Hi - how tall are everyone’s Beverly? is she throwing out octopus arms for folks in the U.S. SE (zone 7b)? Wondering how she might to do pegged to a 4 foot fence, orif she is too much of a thick bush with less flexible canes for that.