Red Fairy is a Ralph Moore rose and it's an absolute treasure. It might be the most drought-resistant rose I've ever seen. I have a huge one that's about 4-5 feet tall and 6 feet wide. It grew from a pruned cutting I dropped at the edge of a gravel pathway. It's in a spot that is never hit by any of the sprinklers, so it gets watered only by rain. That means it gets virtually no water at all between the end of April and the beginning of November. It's in full sun and is covered with large clusters of blooms all season. The clusters never droop or look parched or dry.
The original one, from which the cutting came, is in a spot where it gets watered regularly, but it's in heavily dappled shade. It's also huge and blooms constantly. This rose grows well under virtually any conditions -- sun/shade, wet/dry, sandy loam/mostly gravel.
