I do agree about Oscar Peterson I almost got it last fall and I'm still pondering it. It seems like a lovely rose.

Still waiting for signs of any new growth...So nothing new to report yet...lol...It must be sittin down roots...

Mine is going crazy with blooms on it. Wow. Even the one fellah that has taken over the watering of the gardens was saying how pretty it was. Took a picture of it this evening. I know for a fact when I bought it there wasn't this many buds on it!!! Maybe 3 or 4 at the most.

Here is a close up of one of them I took about last week---soooooo pretty. So cool how the buds show different colors then when it opens up is this color!!

Wow lookin great karengfawcett!

Here's mine today! I think it would bloom even better in a less shaded spot. But it is always very healthy even in morning shade. Which is why it stays there. Full sun spots are kept for the diva roses!

That's really cute! Is Campfire a mini rose?

Definitely not a mini 'sulltry'. The blossoms are full size (and the plant grows 3 feet by 3 feet for sure).

Boy am I ever glad I broke down and bought one of these from my nearby garden center when I did as today I went there and they were all gone!!! Must have gone like hotcakes!!! No Oscar Pettersons either. They had the red and white hybrid tea rose and the chinook sunrise and that was it for the others. Also the Betty boop took a raincheck in getting any may try Lowes Sat. See what they have.

Would I deadhead them once the first lot is done?? Would there be a 2nd flush of these? Lowes sure didn't have any when I checked there yesterday. May pickup a Chinook sunrise tomorrow from the garden center near me tomorrow. Have lots of these ones left and take out one of the either knockout roses that never responded to being moved or a drift one and put this one in its place. Know for a fact I would have better luck with it. So tempted to buy a 2nd red Knockout to replace the one that didn't pull through. Have room for one.

yes deadhead right under the bloom when the blooms look spent...

I had a first flush on our newly planted (mid May) Campfire but nothing since... Ours are probably concentrating on growing roots...Well hopefully...lol

LOOKING GOOD Hallo!

ok thanks for the info will do so after I come back from our nearby garden centre.

went out this evening and removed all the ones from it that had no petals on them or were falling off it, :)

I had to cut 2 good sized canes and a smaller cane off our new 3 gallon Campfire. I noticed the other day leaves were turning yellow in certain areas and on closer inspection those canes were near death so removed them... Now maybe the plant will start growing better....It still has 3 nice sized green canes left...And I see a new basal peaking out of soil...:-)

Jim, do you think you have rose cane borers?

vaporvac ... I noticed the canes were somewhat bad when it first came from the vendor back in mid May... But instead of getting rid of the canes I chose to keep them as I thought they would be ok...Wrong choice...lol...On closer inspection the canes were worse than I first thought...Not sure what caused there decline?

Lots of new growth on Campfire now...Campfires in the forefront of pic..

Happy to see it growing for you. Campfire, Grand Champion Red Rose (dumb name), Pink Drift and Whiteout are just the best northern roses.

Oh Patty, it's YOU who has the amazing red rose and now I must bookmark the name: Grand Champion! I guess you still love it!? I'm also glad to see you give a thumbs up to Pink Drift. This rose is amazing and really think of it a s a modern polyantha. If only it had scent, but it's placed in a far bed where looks are what's important. Always in bloom with a long flowering period. I wonder if you grow Pink Pet because here it is stellar tip hardy non-stop blooming.

Voporvac thank you for mentioning Pink Pet. I did indeed have that at one time just can’t remember what happened to it. Don’t know if it was an intense winter, winter wetness or rrd.

Also forgot to give accolades to Maxi Vita. Anyway sorry Jim for yacking about another rose.

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yack away...lol

Our CAMPFIRE is blooming... I need to correct a nutritional deficiency I see... Roots must not of made good contact with our native soil yet or something...

Sorry, Jim! OT again.....Patty, from where did you buy your Grand Champion?

Vaporvac wants to know where you bought your Grand Champion rose Patty?

I applied some yard waste compost and mulch to Campfire today... Ordered some fertilizer for the nutritional deficiency but once the roots get into the native soil it should straighten itself out..

nutritional deficiency in leaves

I’m getting confused with the new order here. Missing posts cause I’m looking in the wrong place.

vaporvac, I bought mine at Menards. Found 4 more this year. I think Sooner Plant Farm might have them not sure until I go look. They have 2 others in the series but the reviews on those were not as good. Pretty sure that Monrovia had them. That is where I was going to get them if Menards did not get them in. They have a limited shipping time and only list extra roses during shipping time. They will answer emails. May take a couple of days to get an answer. If I find them someplace I’ll let you know. It a Meidiland rose from Garden Debut.

Finished mulching/composting the rose/flower bed today...

I need to figure out what exact flowers I'm going use next year and where to place them.. Thinking about some type of perennial flower...This year I just stuck flowers in to see how they grew..

Todays blooms on Campfire...

Couple more buds opened..

Patty, still a decent amount of rosebush left after I cut those last two blackish canes out today..Dummy me I should of just cut out every blackish cane when rose arrived in May...lol

I scraped away the bark of the canes and it had a dark brown color inside...

Being a northern bred rose this one never stop growing or producing new flowers during that 100 degree weather. I’ve had mine longer of course. Campfire, White Out and Oscar Peterson were the only 3 that kept the same flower size. Did not get smaller as all the others do.

Awesome Patty! I can't wait!

I love this rose. I ordered Morden Sunrise for fall but I think I need this one too.

This new rose we planted in mid May (Campfire) loves to bloom I can tell you that...

Today

Lovely rose, happy to see her getting stronger for you.

Boy did I get a surprise this week!!!! I was half-heartedly checking my roses as I was leaving the patio outside to go in thru the doors when I saw of all things my campfire rose had 3 new flowers on it!!!!! And this is after I cut all the ones that had bloomed when I first posted them. I originally had assumed I wouldn't see anymore for this year as some of you stated that rather than produce a 2nd lot of blooms it would develop a so called better root system instead. Stopped in my tracks at seeing them out in full bloom. Wow, wow. So pretty too. Might be more coming. Obviously it likes where it is planted. That is the good news. The bad news is I bought a beefsteak tomato plant and a zucchini plant and put them in the garden where the 2 rhubarb and chives are growing and all I seem to get are flowers but no fruit from either one of them Zuccini just doesn't seem to be getting as big as did last year. The Tomato plant is about up past my knee but all it does it gets flowers on it and no tomatoes. Last year it got really high. And developed all kinds of them. I did not plant it in the same place as I did last year. Sooo don't know what are going on with them. Other people are getting tomatoes on theirs and some are red now that is the cherry type. But even so I can't even get tomatoes on it--never mind ones that are red.

Got this info off the net karengfawcett ....

If you have plenty of big blossoms but no tomatoes, it may be too cold and wet or too hot and dry. This results in what is known as blossom drop and will, of course, make it much more difficult for plants to produce fruit. Poor pollination – Weather can also be a factor with pollination.

Great to hear your campfire bloomed!

Campfire today...loading with buds...

Today

Update on Campfire for 2019... Campfire actually bloomed well for a first season rose...

Campfire arrived here with Blackspot back in May but that seems to have cleared up...

But I am seeing just a very mild case of Anthracnose spots on a few leaves at the present time...

So guess we will see how it does over the winter...And I'll update next year,,,

This rose does very well on the very cold Canadian prairies, at least where snowcover is decent. Jim, I bet yours comes through winter green to the tips.

Thanks FrozeBudd_z4

Update on Campfire for 2019... Campfire actually bloomed well for a first season rose...

Campfire arrived here with Blackspot back in May but that seems to have cleared up...

But I am seeing just a very mild case of Anthracnose spots on a few leaves at the present time...

So guess we will see how it does over the winter...And I'll update next year....

I feel poorly at times when I mention anthracnose on a rose because all roses are susceptible to anthracnose. I had read that Flower Girl was the only rose immune so I picked up three a long time ago. While I love this rose I can say for sure that she can and will get anthracnose if the pressure is high or the rose is stressed.

My Campfires are four years old. Some are three and some are two years. We had a night time low of minus 33F. No snow cover or winter protection. All but one had a few canes with a tiny bit of heathy cane. One had the soil washed out with the crown exposed (my bad). It came back but took a while.

On another note my Maxi Vita’s are coming to life. They are 2 years old from Palatine. Loved my old one so much that I got 5 of them. Four are doing beautifully one is being a slacker. Two sunny for an IPad photo. I’’ll try later. My oh my they sure bloom up a storm.

Minus 33... yeeeeeeeeee!

Our coldest temp lately has been like minus 3 and that's rare! Usually temps here stay above zero...Heck mostly above 10 degrees...

Shucks we wad that kind of weather in the 90’s. Amazing how many roses had lots of cane left. Sort of thought we might never get the below zero tempts again.

Campfire today ...October 17, 2019

Campfire has some anthracnose disease here at end of season..Has dropped some leaves..

Still blooming...And we been getting nightly light frosts for awhile now...

I see no Blackspot or Powdery mildew...Just anthracnose spot disease...

Jim, mine pretty well look the same, though we have now had severe killing frosts in my northern region and I'm no longer on viligant deer patrol and the buggers have come in and stripped pretty well all the foliage from the roses, but that's okay at this time of the year. I hope your 'Campfire' will be very rewarding, strong and full of blooms in 2020 !

Thanks Frozebudd!