Although I've had a touch of blackspot with Mardi Gras, it's an extremely vigorous plant and blooms and blooms and blooms and blooms. It...Read More's almost January and it's still pumping out blooms here in Houston, TX. A great rose!
in its second year the mardi gras in my back yard got 7 ft tall and about 5 ft around....i clipped over 500 flowers off it through the se...Read Moreason.....its absolutely fantastic
The blooms on my plant are wonderful. Brightly multicolored and gorgeous. I've had no problems at all with this plant. Would recommend...Read More buying this one to everyone.
We have old garden roses almost exclusively but we fell for this one at Chamblee's. It has survived one humid East Texas summer and a ha...Read Morersh winter (for us anyway) and is blooming up a storm this spring. We have had no disease problems with this rose, probably because of it's windy western location in our garden. It is fragrant and gorgeous in the afternoon sun.
Extremely easy to care for, doesn't seem to mind extreme heat (here in CO it's been miserable this summer) and drought (I've been stingy ...Read Morewith the water as my bill is ridiculous already). New buds are a breath-taking neon orange opening up to a luscious rosey yellow/white and, as time takes it's toll, seems to deepen almost to a magenta color. I'm *so* very happy with this rose.. let's just see how it handles our winter.
Update - June 09. OMG, this is the bomb as far as roses go! Handled our extreme spring like a major trooper.. we had no "winter" as to say, with only like 1 day where it got below -10, and then we had a HARD spring with one day literally in the 80s, and the next day the low for the night was -15!!! Talk about the Dark Side of the Moon as far as temperature differences! Anyways, this rose came through and is blooming like mad already.. I've added a new picture and it's, if I may say so myself, breathtaking! I LOVE this rose!!
Although I've had a touch of blackspot with Mardi Gras, it's an extremely vigorous plant and blooms and blooms and blooms and blooms. It...Read More
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in its second year the mardi gras in my back yard got 7 ft tall and about 5 ft around....i clipped over 500 flowers off it through the se...Read More
AARS for 2008. It's listed as a floribunda rose in the Lakeside Park rose gardens in Fort Wayne, IN.
The blooms on my plant are wonderful. Brightly multicolored and gorgeous. I've had no problems at all with this plant. Would recommend...Read More
We have old garden roses almost exclusively but we fell for this one at Chamblee's. It has survived one humid East Texas summer and a ha...Read More
Extremely easy to care for, doesn't seem to mind extreme heat (here in CO it's been miserable this summer) and drought (I've been stingy ...Read More