I hope it catches up for you . For what it’s worth I absolutely hate my plant but love the blooms it gives me. Never an abundance of them , and always awkward shaped no matter how hard I prune or try to correct it . On Instagram, grace rose farms mentioned it’s one of the best bloomers on her farm . So I thought this year I’d plant a rose close to it so they can mingle and hopefully I won’t care as much how the shrub grows, I planted belle story and it has similar shaped blooms so they should do ok together . I hope yours does well .. it’s a beautiful rose but not one I think looks pleasant up front when it’s not blooming

Saw a bed of Distant Drums (grafted-on-Dr.Huey) at Chicago Botanical Garden. They were the best looking & most abundant flowering among their 5,000 roses. Two people stated that Distant Drum is better as grafted than own-root.

Thank you for the information, straw. No wonder my distance drum is performing so well. It's grafted. I am not a experienced gardener. But my distance drum keeps pumping up flush after flush.

Thanks, I appreciate the insight. I thought I heard mentioned somewhere it didn't has the best form. I have it planted next to an itoh peony and gardenia so hopefully that fills in the sparse bottom part.

Mine must be own root but I'm not totally sure (purchased as an antique rose farm). If I acquire another I will look for grafted.

Mine is grafted from edmunds(bloomed more when it was in a pot), on 2nd year and it does not bloom much at all. I have it next to Zaide, which is a blooming machine and take it easy(continuous bloomer)...so not sure what I am doing wrong with Distant Drums..maybe it doesn't like that spot. But all the other roses next to it are doing so well, surrounded by Elina, Beverly, out of roseheim, iceberg, golden showers...I will move it to a different spot if it doesn't start earning that front row spot soon.

So I am back and I think my rose may have a disease or...."something" but I'm at a loss for that it is. The buds that were curved, only opened up part ways, most of the petals were missing (I should have taken a picture),. The leaves continued to get worse, having dry patches that almost turned see thru with a lacy or scale look to them. I removed them all because I was hoping new healthy growth would maybe start. I also started watering more and trying to give it more care. Some new growth has started to open and the one leaflet looks off, it's much darker then the other. Also the tips of some of the new growth almost have a burnt look and they rub off. Sorry my only pic is of the leaves now, I wish I had taken more pictures along the way. Any insights?

@Kristine LeGault 8a pnw your Distant drums looks so good, mine might either be a bad graft or I am doing something wrong. It only produced like 2-4 flowers in spring and has taken a work vacation since then :) I will move it to a pot and replace with violets pride or vanessa bell.