In article , Theo Asir
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NEW DAWN.

Except it's a once bloomer in coastal California. Odd, huh?

I havn't heard of that.

Is it so in the north coastal area
or the hotter south coastal area.

For me it doesn't repeat flushes.
There is a fantastic spring bloom
and then it keeps flowering at about 25%
of the that non stop till frost.

I think of New Dawn as sort of silvery, a gorgeous rose that I will
grow some day.

http://home.earthlink.net/~cbernstei...awnCloseup.jpg

The nurseries in Sonoma Country warn people that New Dawn doesn't
repeat well on the coast here, especially when the weather is mild. I
don't grow it, tho I love the way it looks. I have a seedling, Penny
Lane, just a tiny OR, coming along. The color is very similar, tho a
warmer blush pink.

Another possibility is that its flowering wood may be too easy to
deadhead off. I read in Scaniello's Climbing Roses that New Dawn and
its offspring should be deadheaded very carefully, just removing the
spent blooms and not reducing the length of the laterals. I only have
two offspring, Compassion and Penny Lane, and they are both too young
to experiment with. Of course it makes no sense that this is what
operates here on the coast and no where else. Maybe it's a bad clone,
maybe it's just not a mild climate rose. There are those too, ya know?