I planted a Paul Ricault centifolia rose, on its own roots. It's rated as shade tolerant, mine got 4-1/2 to 5 hours sunlight a day. It produced roses prolificly, and of course they are gorgeous. But problems quickly began. It's canes were too weak for the flower load and bent over severely, lower ones on the ground. Should have provided support. As it got older, every year the foliage was concentrated more and more at the top, til the plant was half or two-thirds denuded, with huge spikes for thorns. No amount of pruning would persuade the thorny thing to grow new shoots from the bottom. I finally dug it up and gave it to a friend who had a lot of open space in full sun. Then to add insult to injury, the roots produced no less than 8 new Paul Ricaults � bewitching, lovely little things that coyly conceal the problems that will occur later. I see photos on the web of beautiful Paul Ricaults. What am I doing wrong?

I've given up trying. My advice to you would be to take those little baby Paul Ricaults and plant them randomly around your yard - stick one under a porch, one in the middle, one by the house, one surrounded by other plants... maybe you'll get lucky!