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I planted 2 Pegasus own-root specimens in my garden around 2 years ago. They are now fountain-shaped plants, with arching canes around 6-7 feet long; the plant is around 5 feet high and 6 feet across. It is growing more widely than had anticipated, so I will need to relocate 2 Ruth Clements plants.
There are blooms all along the upper parts of the canes, where the angle of the canes change from 45 degrees to horizontal. The flowers are in clusters of 3-5 flowers each. This year the flowers are up to 4 inches across. I do not recall seeing any disease on the leaves of these 2 plants. The repeat is not as fast as I would like, but that may be due that fact that they are not dead-headed as promptly as they should be.


I am so sorry. I love to get out there and see mine every morning and can't imagine what I would feel like to see that. Someone mentioned a motion activated sprinkler and that made me wonder if motion activated flood lights might scare them. Don't know much about deer... they might not care

Thanks so much. I emailed Roses Unlimited to see if they have it and will ship. It looks small from the price but that's OK. SE has only container grown plants for local pick (I am in PA). So I will hope for RU. If you know of anywhere else to try for a larger plant, please let me know.

Golden Celebration does spot for me but usually it only defoliates at the bottom. Mine is about 12 feet tall but would probably go higher if I let it! It has good winter hardiness so I rarely have to prune much off. Blooms well, and smells delicious.

Mori, are you specifically looking for a yellow hybrid tea? If you're worried about wintering them HTs will be the most tender and suffer the most die back probably. You might want to look at some floribundas or shrubs instead. They tend to be hardier. Julia Child is one I know is hardy but there is also a new one out called Sparkle & Shine, although I don't know about it's hardiness yet.

I went crazy as usual.
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I do believe that Texas has the biggest worms. When I lived there I used to have to take a deep breath before I rescued them. I'm sure that worm will reward you for saving him. I try to do that after a rain. The favorite part of my dog's walk is eating dried up worms on the sidewalk. My husband rescues all sorts of insects and puts them out in the garden. We have some really beautiful spiders. I draw the line at saving aphids and ants. Mary

Isn't everything bigger in Texas?! I used to see them when I lived in NY. Haven't noted them in this part of CA. I was a weird bug-girl as a kid. Used to love to pick up all bugs and critters, and carefully study them. Loved the worms. I still pick up snakes which I have to be careful of, as one of the last babies I picked up happened to be a rattler. Mostly just gopher snakes (my best friends) out here now fortunately.

SLO is sort of like Ventura and Santa Barbara counties (talking coastal strips since the OP said a half mile from the beach) Only if your in SLO but Morro and up the coast, it is can be damp and cool pretty much year round. SLO south is more like here I think usually just a couple of degrees different.
If Jeri was having issues with the plant chances are you will to. If I stop by the local nursery tomorrow, I will look at their DD and see if they carry them and how they look.

Update: After some major babying and some great sunshiny weather (we had been socked in with fog for for a couple weeks) my DD is now blooming. it has 8 long stemmed buds and the couple that have bloomed are beautiful and heavily scented. :) thanks for the tips and the cheerleading!

As much as you have, and then some, lol. Seriously, she's a huge rose. You don't state where you live, but even here in zone 7a, which is somewhat inhospitable to Lady Banks, she covered half of a south facing wall, two stories high, in just two years (remind me to tell you about my worst gardening mistake). You'll need to tell us where you are, and then someone close to you can give you a better estimate, and some pruning tips. I've seen pix of her sheared back pretty harshly. She'd never go for that here, but in California where she's a rampant grower, it's a semi-common practice.
John

Here in Southern California, people grow it, and prune it HARD after the spring bloom. This keeps it somewhat contained, but does lessen its impact.
There's a very old plant up the hill here from us -- Well, old for this area ... It may have been planted in the 1940's ... It is no longer pruned, but I think was pruned hard for years. It may be 10-12 ft. wide, and maybe 6 ft. high, against a rickety fence.
Jeri

You can't get rid of flower thrips. They use many different plants, weeds, and crops as hosts, so they are everywhere in the environment. Often in late spring, towards the end of the first flush of roses, they build up to the point of doing noticeable damage. Then usually they subside as predators build up. In my garden, I hardly ever notice them after the first flush. However, people in the lower South and Texas report having more trouble than I do. Some years they will be very bad, other years not so, depending on weather patterns.
Some rose varieties attract more thrips or show thrips damage worse than others. White and blush-pink roses are generally the worst. However, certain pale varieties like Quietness and Kronprinzessin Viktoria are not bothered much. Red, deep yellow, and orange roses will be fine. So one thing you can do is weed out the varieties that have the worst problem. You can ask here about susceptibility of varieties you are considering.
I don't do anything beyond that. However, the recommended chemical control is spinosad (generic name of insecticide sold under various brand names). To control thrips you would spray buds as soon as the sepals crack to show color, and again when the bud is partly open. Don't spray open flowers as that endangers pollinators. Instead perhaps you would cut buds for the vase. Don't spray unless thrips are causing problems. Spinosad is classed as a reduced risk pesticide, and it is not as hard on beneficial insects as some insecticides. Still, because spraying for thrips is not really necessary, I don't personally recommend doing it.

I scratch in Hi Yield granular imidocloprid around the base of the few roses I have that are terribly affected by thrips. It takes only one dose. This is a systemic insecticide and it pretty much eradicates the thrips. It's very effective. I don't spray. Spinosad doesn't work for me. I've tried it. Diane



I'm another who backed-off from ordering CSK because of the statement that it performs best under cool conditions.
Assuming that's an accurate assessment, it's really too bad that, to honor a lady from the deep south, the rose selected is one that would prefer NOT to grow there.
Hi All,
The rose does well in all climates. The info says the "Cool temperatures bring out the best color", which is a statement that applies to any rose. Spring and fall always have the most vibrant colors for roses. I had that when I lived in Los Angeles, I have here in the upstate of South Carolina and northern gardeners have the same. That's different from the rose not performing well in warmer climates.
A little background on this. I'm involved as the King Family contacted me to help them find the rose. I contacted Christian Bedard of Weeks Roses and he is the one who bred the rose. This rose was already slated to be released by Weeks in 2014 but had no name. Bernice King picked it out of photos. So this rose had already been through all of Weeks trials, tests etc. Since it did not have a name they agreed to name it after Mrs. King.
There are around 10,000 plants at a wholesale nursery in central Florida and they tell us they are doing very, very well. They are very impressed with it.
The rose is available from several sources mostly budded. The ones being sold through the corettascottkingrose.com website are own-root one gallons from the collection in Florida. A good portion of the proceeds from the rose sold from that site go to raise money for the work the King Family does.
Hope this helps!
Paul Zimmerman