The climber of this cultivar has a rather different habit not only from the grandiflora, but from many other climbing varieties. The rigid canes are bolt upright like a bamboo, very tall, with inconsistent blooms at the tops, and not very quick to repeat. I tried pegging the canes to force some lateral growth in an effort to produce more blooms, and succeeded only in snapping many of the unpliable canes in the process. One of the very few roses I eventually shovel pruned. When I eventually dug it up after only three years in the garden, I was truly astonished at the size of the root mass, which had grown enormous in those few short years.

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