Now that is right when I was living in my house in Meyerland before the floods my 50 varieties of roses that I was growing all got very big and before
at our house we had in Alief, TX (far West Houston, TX area) I had an china rose called 'Mutabilis' which had canes that were almost 2 inches in
diameter. It was truly huge. I let all my 50 varieties get very large so that most years I was able to cut 20 to 30 blooms each day even through the
summer. We pretty much always had blooming roses.