JimS. wrote:

Aha! .....Joseph's Coat....you've succumbed. If you recall-- that's the
one I picked up last year at the same time as I bought (on your urging!)
Don Juan.


I do recall! What really sold me on this one was seeing the mini climber
Rainbow's End and being told it is like a mini JC. I still want to grow
both together if I can.


You're gonna love Joseph's Coat-- and it doesn't look anything like
the picture they had with it in the nursery, either.


I love to hear this!! Lots of folks were trashing it in posts of long ago--
something about blackspot and such, but hey, all my roses are plagued by
the plagues.



BTW---- I've always bought J&P as boxed roses at Costco for $9.99. Last
week I finally bought a bareroot J&P rose from a yuppie-nursery in North
Seattle. But it had roots way bigger than 6", most at least 10-12#.

I must be unlucky--at least with my first J&P bare roots. You know I like
J&P roses--many of my first roses are J&P--but really, these bare roots
have very short roots. I'll try them anyway. Off to try to get some of the
babies in the ground!!