Caldwell Pink. I am agog with its ability to grow and prosper in totally worthless soil. And at the beauty of its red leaves in fall. And of what a nice even, densely branched shrub it makes. It has grown like mad this year and is in a pretty even contest with nepeta Walker's Low (Next spring the nepeta gets moved one foot away from the rose bed..) to see who can crowd out whom. Mine are just entering their second year and they only made a token number of blooms last year. But they were of such perfect form. If it were deliciously fragrant it would be a shoe-in to be my cnoice for the "if you could only have one rose" game. It has buds now. Looking forward to see if it will repeat this year.
