I will have to go see how it does in the city garden though, because I have never really paid much attention to climbers on our 1-2 annual motorcycle trips there. I do know that our local rose garden grows Don Juan, as does a former neighbor (who always raved about it, though we never saw it in person). Rouge Royale has a bad reputation sometimes.but we got it at RU a few years ago, and it's doing just wonderfully for us. Some of those Romantica roses I just swoon over, and have to try out to find out if I can or can't grow them. I've read the same about Abbaye de Cluny.maybe if it works for Red Eden, I'll try Abbaye as well. I also read that you can (if you're willing, that is, to bother) pull the bottom petal down and kinda coax the bloom open, if you're having trouble with it. It is just one I HAD to try out for myself. When I talked with Pat Henry at RU about it, she assured me that she never had a problem with it balling, though I know I've read about it doing this with a lot of ppl.
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