Huskies4all wrote:

"Lemmon's Immortal", I guess is the name I'll be using.

Imagine that. It's still only about a foot tall, and it has buds. None
of the other roses are even close to budding.

I think it's a rose that blooms on old wood, since the two new suckers do
not have blooms and show no evidence of getting them any time soon. The
blooms are all on new growth off the two old canes. They are in clusters
of 2 or three buds each.

Basal canes, not suckers! This is the future you're calling a sucker
here. ;~) Believe me, you want lots. Suckers are undesireable.

I put up a couple of pics at
http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/huskies4a.../Roses&.view=t
If you click on the thumbnail, you'll get a bigger pic, and an even
bigger one if you click it again.

Gosh, this is exciting. I can't wait until they open.

Lemmon's Immortal looks very very healthy. This *is* exciting! That
foliage is certainly old rose-looking, with it's portland/damask
rounded shape and color. Hybrid perpetuals like Portland from Glendora
and Barbara Worl share that leave shape.

I put together a webpage for a rose that I ran into and wanted help
identifying. It's one idea of the factors that real experts use to
classify roses and deduce their genetic heritage from their physical
characteristics. Believe me, I'm no expert, but once you have these
details, there's one somewhere who knows your rose.

http://home.attbi.com/%7Ecassbernste...s/TamGlow.html

Don't forget to take some good pictures of those buds when they are
nice and fat but before they open. The shape and character of the buds
and sepals are a good clue, like the shape and character of the
prickles (thorns).

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Cass
Zone 9 San Francisco Bay Area
http://home.attbi.com/~cassbernstein/index.html