Its beautiful! Its so full and lush. Is yours grafted? Mine is own root and in full sun. It started out bushy but then grew a long cane that I've cut back repeatedly but that cane grows back up to 14ft. It also has branched and those canes get really tall. I think it has sported into a climber which is fine but now I want to find a grafted bush lol.

Sara-Ann,

Now that's a big Poseidon. How is it for winter hardiness?

Moses

Wow, this is what I'm hoping most of mine will grow into!

I really like how sturdy and strong it looks.

Thanks for remembering to show your Poseidon in bloom, Sara-Ann. It’s gorgeous. Sorry to hear the heat and humidity did a number on the blooms.

Sultry - 14 feet, you say? Wow. Didn’t Blue Girl also turn int a climber for you?

Jo

Big and beautiful, Sara-Ann. Love Song, like your Poseidon can be breathtaking, but lavender roses are fussy. It's hard to get perfection. My LS currently has thrips semi ruining what would be perfect blooms. Do you get thrips on Poseidon?

Lily, those brown edges might be thrips. They love to make brown edges, the little monsters. Diane

Thank you everyone! Jasmine, mine is grafted on multiflora. Moses, so far it has been very winter hardy. Jo, no problem, I love posting pictures, but wanted to be sure I could get one that the blooms looked okay. Lily, yours looks really good to me. The year I planted mine, I think 2015, mine set on quite a few buds and they just withered, I don’t know what happened, because that was a pretty good year for most of my roses. I think by the end of the season it had two blooms, but ever since then it has done great. Diane, no I don’t, but the humidity hasn’t helped them at all. I hope you have those perfectly gorgeous Love Song blooms soon!

Wow, Sara-Ann, if you're not totally pleased with those blooms you must have even more stunning ones in wait to show us (hard to believe though). I agree with your feedback on hardiness - Poseidon is usually cane hardy for me in zone 5 but occasionally seems to want to lose all its canes to the ground for renewal purposes unrelated to the winter (my lilacs did that this year too, so it's not a hardiness thing). My Poseidon is nowhere near as bushy as yours though.

Cynthia

Jo, I have 4 Blue Girls now. One did turn out to be a climber.

So gorgeous! I’ve been trying to find Poseidon near me but haven’t been able to. I love the color! The plant looks super heatlthy, did you already say how old the plant is?

very nice

Yeah, mine is growing like that too. It's like a giant octopus! Last yr it branched out to around 8-9ft I think. Wish there was a way to keep it contained. Love the blooms!