I wanted to give an update. Thanks to the help of all of you my Zephirine is going to bloom! I am very excited. :-D A few days ago we had a terrible windstorm and the base of the trellis snapped which left the trellis and rose resting on a shrub. Thanks to my handy-dandy figure 8 work, the canes are pliable and there was no breakage. We put it back up and that is when I noticed the buds forming. I am sure I will be re-reading this thread a few times and asking more questions because I really do not want to unravel an re-tie the whole business again next winter.
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