Must be the difference in smell perception time of day humidity etcetera because my cohorts and I have all found this Rose to be very fragrant! Surprisingly so as I've read it wasn't fragrant at all

Why do I seemingly get the non fragrant versions of fragrant roses? There's not a hint of a scent on mine.

Regarding the fragrance Helpmefind.com says "none to mild":

https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=18903

So apparently it is expected to vary.

Beautiful rose. I watched the video that someone posted around the forum where they went around the Jackson and Perkins trial gardens in California. Lady in Red was one of their most impressive roses. I am glad to see that it truly seems to do well. I might have to consider getting this one.

Karen - what a gorgeous red...and I love the amount of petals!

Carol

THanks Carol! It also has a mild pleasant fragrance. But I am very sensitive to scents so I can smell most of anything, both bad and good. :)

Nice pictures, Karen!

I did want to mention that I can barely detect any scent on mine. I've checked at various times throughout the day. I also cut 5 and put in a small vase--still no scent.

I will say that the color does hold in sunlight. We've had several days of bright sunlight and the color, even on the older flowers, holds until the petals fall.

Next will be a test of whether the flowers burn/crisp in high heat. We are supposed to have 90+ degrees for three days starting Sunday. UGH!

Chris

I agree. The petals are definitely colorfast. The color is a very bright scarlet. This is what they look like on their third day.

Karen, you captured the color perfectly!

Thanks Vaporvac! I checked it today and it is still this red eventhough we had 90F yesterday.

I haven't found it to change color at all! It also holds up really really well in rain and there seems to be no thrip damage.

Would love updates on Lady in Red. How frequent/numerous are the blooms, what size are they and how well it is growing? I would love to take out a very mature once blooming climber and put in something with large blooms that goes all summer. Pics are appreciated!

Mine is growing very well still in a pot and it's coming into a second Bloom. Of course it's in a pot and young so it's not like it would be growing in the ground.

If you wanted a very small flowered miniature type bloom I would suggest red Cascade. This climber is blooming up a storm non-stop since it started with very deep red blooms I'm very impressed and think it would make quite a wonderful showing in many circumstances. Climbing Crimson Glory is finally starting to throw out some large canes in its pot. It's a beauty with phenomenal fragrance. However, I don't think you could go wrong climbing Lady in Red. I just don't know how it's rated for hardiness.

I still love mine . Hasn’t had any disease or treatment for it . I have two. One is growing now and out of bloom, the other is shorter but blooming . :) I think it’s gorgeous and I don’t like reds . No orange at all it’s a velvet red my camera can’t get

My out of bloom one is almost 4ft and has 8 strong canes .

My Lady in Red climber (grafted) planted this spring is already putting out long arms as well as blooming like more established climbers. In my experience, climbers take their first year or two to settle in before they bloom much but I've already had some very nice clusters from mine. I agree that the red stays red without noticeable fading, and it's starting to reach up my arch to do some climbing. I can't tell about hardiness till after the winter, but I'm optimistic.
Cynthia

LIly - I'm impressed with your LIR rose! Those look like heavy blossoms...yet they're mostly facing up...and this is a new plant. Wow!

Carol

Thanks for those pictures! I am hoping to get one next year and get it going. :-)

My Lady In Red just had a cluster of 3 finish flowering. I deadheaded those today as the petals were just starting to fall. The flowers didn't show any burning from the high temperatures and kept that lovely color until the petals fell. I've never had a red rose that held the color so well and didn't burn.

The rest of the plant is covered with new growth and some small buds forming. I'll try to take a picture tomorrow. I have noticed either blackspot or possibly anthracnose starting on the older, lower leaves. I've delayed spraying for diseases to test this plant AND because it has been 95 degrees here with high humidity. I'd have to crawl out of bed at the crack of dawn to even think of spraying. <GRIN> Ain't happenin'. Ha!

I have two potted roses that were part of the $20 Spring Hill rose sale: All My Loving and Ch-ching. Both of those are already showing blackspot, too, and have lost a lot of the lower leaves. I'll start a spray routine this weekend, because the high the next couple of days is only going to be around 79 degrees. Next week we return to the 90 degree temps. UGH!

Ch-ching has bloomed and bloomed, but the flowers are NOT very pretty and size went down in the heat. I will say this holds the color very well. I think I'm going to have to spray for thrips, also.

All My Loving is not producing well shaped flowers. I think the thrips are on this rose, too. The Japanese beetles have arrived and are bothering both this and Ch-ching, but seem to have skipped (probably just jinxed her) Lady In Red and an Oklahoma a friend picked up for me at Aldi's.

Now I'm rambling and totally off the original subject. Sorry!

Chris

My nose is stuffed most of time, but I do detect a mild, refreshing scent from this one.

Chris,

Looking forward to your pictures. I love the every day full bush shots, not the best of season shots. It shows me how the rose will really look in my yard.

Here are current photos of Lady In Red......ignore the carpet scrap which I'm using to keep the weeds at bay. LOL! I need to weed, AGAIN, as I won't use any weed killers around around my roses. I don't have funds (at the moment) to mulch the bed, so hand weeding will suffice. Ha!

Chris

Chris, what amazing growth! I really need to get mine out of its pot I guess. I've had the same experience with the other roses mentioned from the Springhill sale, although I'll add Violet's Pride to the bunch. She has completely defoliated although the new leaves look good. Again, she is in a pot and I don't know if she got water stressed or needed fertilizer or what. Everyone else seems to grow her without issue so I'll just have to see how it goes once I get her in the ground. She better be good because she's going in a prominent spot in my front yard! P. S. I thought I was the only one that use carpet for weed control! I'm beds that I can't plant right away I actually have really large rolls that I put down after eradicating everything until I can get to planting it. I'm finally removing it from one bed where it's been for over 2 years! I'm so bad!

Wow, what gorgeous pics of LIR! Good to know she doesn’t scorch or fade. Red Cascade and Kashmir are my first two reds. Cascade stays a lovely dark red in the sun but so far Kashmir has scorched and turned pinkish in 90 degree temperatures, which I hadn’t anticipated. Live and learn.

Vaporvac: The carpet is a great way to recycle. I've used it for years. Learned this trick from Gardeweb many moons ago and started using carpet as a weed barrier in the vegetable garden.

I'd lay black plastic in rows, plant my vegetables a nursery flat apart, then cover the walk ways with the carpet. It also saves your knees crawling around picking all the vegetables! ;-)

I no longer plant a vegetable garden, but I still like to do a little flower gardening so just transferred that idea to my front walk.

Like you, I have two rolls of old carpet behind my house that I cut into strips as needed.

Chris

Chris, is that mugwort peeking through your carpet barrier? THat weed drives me crazy! I pull them, I dig them, but they still come back. Do you know that kiddie song, The Cat Came Back. I am sure they can make a song out of mugwort the same way.

Ok this carpet trick is so genius I cannot believe I never heard of it !! Our veg garden is an absolute disaster and we really could have done this . We are at the point of discussing digging up the tomatoesand peppers , potting them, and mowing the rest down. It’s so bad!! Carpet carpet carpet. Thanks for the great idea !

KarenPA, I'm glad you mentioned that weed. I never knew WHAT kind of weed it was, but it is aggressive and never under control here at my house. The mugwort was in a batch of "top soil" that was brought in almost 40 years ago. My Mom and I fought it ever since. I may try weed killer at some point. It spreads like mint, with underground roots and pops up elsewhere just when you think you've got it under control. Ha!

Lilyfinch, If you don't like the color of the carpet just throw a very thin layer of mulch on top. Any heavy mulching on top of the carpet allows weeds to start, which defeats the purpose. While out running errands in the car on trash days my Mom and I used to look for carpet, stop, and throw it in the backseat or trunk of the car. ;-)

Chris

I planted Lady in Red this spring too, lured by that ARS/Bedard video, I agree it’s been very promising. Mine is the same color as Lilyfinch’s, a glowing, really red rose with great great staying power.

Ok here are real time no frills photos taken tonite.

My big one : these are both from this spring. This big one was given to me at the rose society meeting for joining . It was prepared by the president, in assuming he received bareroot and potted it up .(maybe in a greenhouse?) My smaller one came from Spring Hill rainbow sale and has bloomed 2 rounds but not grown as fast. It was planted bare root into the ground.

Smaller one

About the carpet: we had kept in our basement all the old carpet rolled up . For 3 years! Til mice moved in :(. We were saving it to line the bottom of my husbands dream pond . Coulda used that !!

Lilyfinch: WOW! The rose society plant looks like it took off immediately.

I didn't want to put Lady In Red in a pot, which is what I usually do. I really wasn't even going to keep her, but I split the order with a friend and she took the lavender/purple and the orange (Easy on the Eyes and Cinco de Mayo). I let her choose what she wanted so I ended up with Lady In Red. NOT a problem, especially now that I've seen the real flowers/color. LOL! I usually grow my roses in pots on my front porch (as "annuals" at this price) since it is much easier to tend than on my knees, which protest vociferously as I get older. Since it is a climber I didn't want to waste the time of potting it and then have to put it in the ground later.

Nice photos! Your camera captures the color of the flowers much better than my old digital camera. :D

Chris

Inspired by Jen’s pics, I went out and braved the mosquitos and heat and got a few pics before it got dark. Keep in mind it’s been nearly 100 degrees for 3 weeks straight, so this young rose, planted 4 months ago is doing quite well. If you look closely you can see a young plant of Clematis Viola venosa planted next to it, I have this future vision of these brilliant red blooms intermingled with blue and white stars :)

Psst...there’s a nice obelisk on your right that I paid good money for...please put it to good use!

Updates? I have this one on order from highcountry as they list it hardy to zone four. Going to plant it along with Cherry frost....

Mine is still in a pot, but that combo is going to look stupendous! : ))

Faultless, fabulous climber. Healthy, long lasting , nice vigor, super fast repeat, everything ends in bloom, lasts extremely long , then drops cleanly. A really saturated, intense true red color, the color is so strong my iphone can’t really take it in properly, or show the bloom in detail.

Wow!! That is gorgeous! Your plants are clearly very happy..

Ben I would so love to see your garden in person . It’s so inspirational!!! Honestly one of my favorite.

Kelly , when I left my garden both mine were growing very well !! They were loaddd with buds too . I really recommend it !

This was on my most wanted list this year and I finally got one!

Put it in when the weather was beautiful in April. Bought a cute climbing trellis for it.

Today it looks like this.

But there are three blooms under that bucket! I swear! I'm just too lazy to go outside and take a picture so this one is through the window screen.

It is really a pretty rose.

I can't wait to see it again when the weather gets better. :-)

That's truly outrageous weather even for me and I like snow!

Jen

I remember we planted Lady in Red around the same time, and yours looked great. It’s Just such a fabulous, winsome variety, and doesn’t ask for anything.

My three blooms are out from under the bucket since it is in the 40s today. It's been a couple of days since I've seen them as it has now gone through a couple of snow storms and some hail under the bucket.

Really looking forward to how it settles in and takes hold.

It is rated to zone 4 so I would be interested in people's reports of how it over wintered for them in the colder zones.

You did a fine job protecting your young plant, mmmm!

Mmm12, what did you plant in place of the Dr. at the corner of you house? Wasn't this rose going there?

I think your protection is what did the trick, mmmm12. My Lady in Red was a fabulous grower when I put it in last summer (grafted) and it bloomed a lot like these pictures in its first summer. So far I haven't seen anything of it poking up from the ground this spring. Many other roses are blooming or getting ready to, but at its best this rose seems like it wakes up slowly in my climate. I'm hoping it has survived and it'll get some protection next year if so, but I doubt it will climb for me unless I do more to help it along. Kelly, I'd be a bit cautious about this rose in our climates. I think Florentina or Dublin Bay is more likely to be hardy for you, as they're frequently cane hardy in my typical zone 5 winters.

Cynthia

Vaporvac,

It was going in that corner until we saw Fourth of July. We were both very taken with Fourth of July so decided to put that in the place where we took out the old well established once blooming red rose that may have been Dr. Huey. The reason I give it all the qualifiers is that it was tip hardy and apparently Dr. Huey isn't even supposed to live in our zone so it may have been something else. Here is Forth of July today. It is just so cheerful! So it got the prime spot at the corner of the house and Lady in Red got put into the cutting garden.

But I also love Lady in Red's blooms. It was really a struggle to relegate her to the cutting bed. If she is cane hardy I'm considering getting another to replace Robusta on the east side of our house. It is a prime spot with great sun and I see it every day. Robusta didn't have as large of blooms as I had read and is the only rose I ordered sight unseen instead of picking out personally.

nippstress, I hope it comes back for you. I guess it is good I've put it in the cutting bed so I can test it's zone 4 rating. Although it may still go at the corner of the house. According to Denver's Rose society advice Fourth of July doesn't really survive here and if mine does it will be very unusual. So my back-up plan is to put another Lady in Red in Fourths place should it perish next winter.

Yes. I'm finding many roses rated hardy to zone four don't actually bloom much if at all. And some have been surprisingly hardy. Many of the new Korded zone five roses have done spectacular. That is another reason why I am planting it with Cherry frost-a rose supposedly hardy to zone three..... I'm still looking for a nice romantic -I have heard long John silver is not good for zone four, Alchemist has never bloomed, Madame hardy has been out of stock and Madame plantier I have been going back and fourth on trying. Finally broke down to try highcountrys version of Isabel Skinner it sounds like that one might be iffy in my zone too....

4th of July may make it because it will benefit from the heat of your house. I found this to be true with my climbing clothilde supair. Why did you replace the other red rose again. I forget. Did it only bloom once?

I hope you are right on 4th of July living off the wall heat through the winter.

We took out the old one, which was glorious once per year, in hopes to get something that was glorious all summer long.