Finally this year, after about five years in the ground, my Maggie has come into her own. Unfortunately I planted her between two very vigorous roses (Buff Beauty and Lafter) who tried to crowd her out. This year Maggie has taken off and pushed her canes through the jungle. She has always bloomed well, especially in the fall, but now the show is more visible. I find the blooms shatter after only a few days, but there are more buds waiting to replace them. Like most of my roses, she is plagued by black spot in spring - a nearly normal condition here on the Texas Gulf coast.

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Noted by Antique Rose Emporium:
"Collected by Dr. William C. Welch in Louisiana, "Maggie" has very full flowers that are large, of rich carmine rose that can darken to crimson in cool weather. They are freely produced on a vigorous, healthy bush that makes a nice hedge, specimen plant or even pillar rose. The true "rose" scent is even headier when the flowers are carried indoors. We admit to preferring this rose to the less vigorous Grss an Teplitz, and thought it might be a hearty seedling of the rose, but several distinguished rosarians have suggested that our "Maggie" is possibly the old Bourbon Eugne E. Marlitt."

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