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This rose has never actually gotten black spot here in hot, wet, muggy zone 7a. This will be its fourth season. Never a dot. Nothing. Ever. I moved my two plants from shady and shadier locations against the back deck (where, incidentally, the jap beetles never seemed to find it for two years) to the front yard in full sun (partly shaded by a sparse tree in the afternoon). The only damage done was by caterpillars, and then the jap beetles did find them. I never have had a huge problem with millions everywhere like I've seen in nightmare pictures, though, so I accepted that as sort of an expected problem I never had to deal with before and knocked them off whenever I got out there. Just a fantastically healthy, vigorous rose.

It's currently weathering the cold in its second year (first year in ground here), all stems still green. It came to me at about five inches high and is now about 18 inches high--not bad for being in a brand new bed scraped out of clay and amended with leaf compost before being neglected after the first few months of conscientious feeding and watering in spring.

I agree about its health. Here in wet, hot zone 7, the main issue is black spot, and that didn't seem to bother it at all. I may have noticed a tad, but squirted it with a homemade black spot spray and never saw it again.

It bloomed three times for me, and the color was like a sundrop--a brilliant but not jarring yellow-gold, tinged with pinkish in fall. I couldn't bear to pinch blooms off like I planned, to let it put on growth, because they were too pretty.

I had one two years ago. It was funny: I saw it online and was enchanted. I searched until I found some online and kept them in the greenhouse for months, thinking they were rare and exotic, and then saw them at Lowe's. Thanks for taking away the mystique, Lowe's!

Actually, the mystique was not diminished. Don't think it's possible. The colors are out of some sort of fantasy world. I have never ever seen that metallic sheen on another plant in my life.

They grew two feet tall in the garden. The habit was a little gangly and awkward as they got large because the plant is so upright and spiky, and I didn't account for that, placing it close to the front. I failed to take cuttings or bring It indoors and now I miss it. Well, now I know to look at Lowe's, I guess. Thanks, Lowe's...