Mme Hardy

White

It starts out well, producing apple-green foliage. Then in May the fungal disease hits - about the time it is forming blossoms. By the end of June the plant is defoliaged or one wishes it were.

In six years it has put up four parallel five foot canes two inches apart, each of which manages four flowers per year. The two inch flowers are pretty - or could be if shown against healthy foliage. Every time I go to yank it out I am haunted by that 9.0. "Maybe it needs more time..."