Beautiful 🌿💕🌿 Helen

Thank you Helen =). I wish I had some of your photography skills. I want you to know due to your beautiful photos I have added the Wedgewood rose and Bathsheba to my garden this year. Thank you!

Summer romance is heartwarming !

Lush and gorgeous, Dianela. What a big beauty. You are a month ahead of us here in the north (so envious). I'm sorry to read about your windstorm--was that recent? I am not envious of the windstorms some of the South and Midwest get. Diane

Thanks Dianela. Your pics showcase Summer Romance perfectly. This rose has received many bad reviews, and you prove that it can shine beautifully in the right environment.

R, beautiful shot of Summer Romance! Helen

Thank you Diane. My garreen will never compare to the perfect romance and beauty of your garden now matter how early so I’ll save “my envy” for next month when your roses get going =). The storm was the night before last. I have to admit I slept right through the thunder and all. something electrical burned and now we have no power in the bedroom. It wasn’t that bad here. A few hours south in MS oaks fell on top of my husbands aunt’s house and made a big mess. They are all safe but how scary it must have been. Looking forward to seeing you garden soon. Stay safe this staying home thing can’t last much longer (hopefully)

R pnwz: your summer romance is beautiful. How old is your plant?

Holey, Moley!!!! Thanks soooo much Dianela!!! I'm so glad you showcased this rose!! Thank you!! And the fragrance sounds wonderful! My goodness!! Those are FABULOUS roses!! SWOON AND DROOL!!!! If I find one...I'm buying it! You took me from meh to Holy Hannah!!!! :)

R - yours looks wonderful too! Gorgeous color and shape! Wowza!

dianela, thank you also for this post. The general consensus if a good pruning after the first flush to encourage re-bloom. However, this may be different with pegged roses. I look forward to seeing how they do with this treatment. I have pulled many branches over, but being so thorny it was disaster mixed up with New Dawn and First Crush. That was too many thorns to work through. However, I have a third one in the front that respond well to this method. Keep us informed and congrats on giving it a chance.

This particular rose has been great for me. In fact, it’s spectacular I should say. I might had complained in their first year that their growth being octopusy but then they quickly grew out of it the second year once pruned. It’s one of Korde’s best ADR roses to date.

Congratulations dianela! Your Summer Romance is fabulous. Mine is getting ready to bloom and hopefully will be better than the last two years when it was small and a stingy bloomer..

Ann

Mine only blooms in spring and has octopus arms, but if it rebloomed, I would love it.
It has a weird

smell, which I just figured out today--it smells like cheap jelly beans!
Here is mine with Ingrid Bergman.
Carla in Sac

I have always said it smells like sweet candy. Jelly beans is a good description.

I love this rose! She's a winner for you, Dianela. I tried 3 of them and took the last one out last year. I don't know if it's the climate or the soil or me, but I can not grow that gorgeous thing.

I wonder if she needs Heat. She is not listed as one of the Southern Roses by Cordis but she does really seem to love the summer.

Dianela,

beautiful rose, not only the blooms, but I enjoy looking at the laterals coming out of pegged canes too.

What a stunning rose dianela!!!! So beautiful!!

Dianela,, your Summer Romance is fabulous! That pretty little heart and sweet pink color make it a really lovely rose . And smells like jelly beans, wow!

I am so glad that your family is ok after the storm, such scary weather on top of everything else.

Thank you everyone for your kind posts. If this rose and madame anisette had good reboot they would be stars in my blackspot rides garden. I typed a long post and I don’t see it anywhere. I’ll give it some time see if it shows up. Some times I think this site is trying to mess with my head.

very nice

Dianela - not much rebloom, huh. I don't see your post yet.

Dianela,

I think my experience with SR and Mme A are similar to yours. On the one hand, they are such strong trouble-free growers, tons of healthy big basals not bothered by disease. But where are the blooms once the heat of summer sets in? Maybe they’ll improve with age.

Dianella, my plant is 3 years but it’s in a pot and wants to go the ground but I don’t have a spot:(.. so trying to pamper her in the pot as much as I can..

My problem is not only lack of blooms in the heat, but they look like this. This was at 79 degrees!

Carla in Sac

Really? It doesn't like heat, that's for sure!

I think it may be dry air that is more detrimental to blooms than heat. At least, that's how it is here. I don't know how dry it is in Sacramento, but it could be a factor. There are simply a bunch of roses I can't grow because they shrivel in hours from the dry air (Heirloom, Blueberry Hill, The Prince, Rouge Royale, and others. I still grow the last two, though). Diane

Interesting. Many have grown it well in hear, so I do wonder about humidity. I think we need more info on CoriAnn's growing conditions!!! LOL!!!

With dry air, watering and mulch protocols are essential for the success of many roses. It does not get drier than Las Vegas among major cities. While gardening there, I "lost" very few roses to heat, but can relate to the shriveled blooms that Diane refers to.

The petal substance for many roses are just not ideal for desert conditions or they have to be placed very strategically in the garden. I grew a bed of Heirloom (essentially a staple rose at local nurseries) where the bushes only received 4 hours of morning sun, which actually was enough for multiple bloom cycles. There is sooo much trial and error with rose gardening, and in "some" instances, going against convention when gardening in challenging environments is a way to learn how specific roses will perform.

While Cori Ann gardened in a city that could have temperatures in the low triple digits for a decent number of days during the Summer (definitely not the hottest place even among hot cities in CA), if I recall correctly, her temperatures often cooled significantly at night. Places like Las Vegas, Palm Desert, Phoenix, can be near if not in the triple digit temperatures overnight. She also had great soil, to begin with versus the nutrient void, caliche riddled soil that plagues many desert areas. These factors make a difference… Today, I was trying to determine placement for my Falstaff and viewed Cori Ann's posts of her beautiful garden:)

Oops… sorry dianela, I kind of went off on a non-Summer Romance tangent. Happy to see that it performs well for you. It gives me hope regarding my Frankenstein of a S.R.

Yes, I recall her original name mentioned having enough chill hours for peaches and cooling at night. She also had some magic soil! : )