Thanks Sue, it's completely clear that Molineux doesn't get JGG syndrome in southern CA. It keeps on being on my list of roses to get. But it never quite seems to get ordered. I can see, too, that Bishop's Castle doesn't suffer from JGG syndrome there either. Quite a lot of the wow factor in Piece of Eden garden photography, isn't there?
Toni, once your spindly roses get established have you considered trying to peg the canes? I've heard that you can do it in stages by securing weights to the tips of the canes. I've never actually tried this, but it is a solution advocated by Martin for spindly DA roses. I was in the garden today and I noticed that Awakening - a sport of New Dawn - which is in its second year in the garden and is approaching waist height - has been growing at 45 degrees for so long that it is throwing out laterals. It's what roses do when their long canes are no longer vertical. And it can multiply the number of roses by a big number.
I think the conversation is convincing me that I want to get my DA roses on Dr Huey rootstock. Angie, is your Tradescant from DA roses or is it from somewhere else? Do you remember whether it is own-root or grafted? It looks really healthy and robust.
