Toni - in my garden Babs will be a year old in April. When dry, hot weather hit in June her canes dried out and she became an itsy bitsy shadow of her former self - despite daily watering. Then in late September we had rain. And high temps dropped into the seventies. She put out all sorts of purple foliage and has looked very happy ever since, despite nighttime temps close to 20F. So I'm hoping there is some very effective root development going on. Maybe next year we'll get some top growth, & maybe a blossom. And in a few years some fragrant flowers. Pretty much all the bareroot roses I planted this year behaved in roughly the same way, although Sexy Rexy and Maria Schriver did slightly better.
