Wow!! Those look fantastic! Thanks for sharing. :)

Jealosy!!! I wish I could find roses like that for Atlanta. Those really are the perfect "landscaping" rose Mary Lu!

crackingtheconcrete, you are very welcome!

GGG, what growing zone are you in? The reason I ask is this rose is listed as hardy zones 4-9. Just not sure how big it would get in your zone. I find it gets about about 3-4 feet wide for me (except the one that is between the 2 peonies. That one is about 2.5 feet wide. The peonies crowd it.) Height tends to be about 3 feet. So maybe worth a try for you?

Where is the edit button when you need it? Just realized that the topic says "East Elegance" when I meant to say "Easy Elegance". Sorry.

GGG, also this past week we had 3 days of 95-99 degree heat. This rose did not seem to miss a beat. None of the blooms crisped at all. They may have faded a little more than usual, but that's about it.

This picture was taken during spring flush in 2010 when it was in it's 3rd summer.
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This was taken tonight, it's 4th summer. So I would say it has about reached maturity for me.

Mari lu- So how many plants are in that very FIRST photo, and how many in the very LAST photo. These are gorgeous roses and just what I am looking for. Thanks so much for posting. I always enjoy your photos.
-Sprout

sprout, the first photo is 2 bushes. This very last photo is 1 bush.

I have other Easy Elegance roses too, and so far, of the ones I have planted they are all doing quite well.

Mary Lu, I'm in zone 8 - although hardy for us, our "zone 8" is much different than say a California zone 8...it's the humidity (well, not this year, we've had none!!!!) and now the heat. 95 or so for a solid month, every single day. Pretty much same thing as last year, so it could be the new "normal" (who knows?).
BS and ability to flower consistantly in heat would be my biggest concern. That rose sure would be gorgeous in the area I am planning which will join the vegetable garden and orchard and medicinal herb area.

I love my sunrise sunset! I too, wish I had planted more when I was planning my beds. It always has very little die back, very little blackspot (I don't spray), and tons of flowers all summer. The only problem I have is that the JBs love it.

Those are Gorgeous,that's the kind of rose bushes i love,lots of flowers and beautiful color.TFS
Kathi

I'm going to ask on the rose forum, Mary Lu

Oh My, what gorgeous roses, are they very thorny?

Annette

mehearty, I can't say one way or the other about the JBs, as so far I have only noticed a handful in my yard the last 2 years. Hope it stays that way!

GGG, I will have to check over there and see what they say. I would not want to be the one to "lead you astray"!

Annette, they have some thorns, but not nearly as bad as some of my other roses.

Yesteray and last night was really telling. We had rain all day, a nice soaking rain. But then about 5 PM the sky got so dark the solar garden lights came on and so did out dusk to dawn light. Then the rain and wind came. The rain was literally in sheets. There were tree leaves all over the lawn from the wind. It lasted about 10-15 minutes at the most and we got over a 1/4 inch of rain in that time. Tonight when I went out and looked at SS she was looking almost the same as last night when I took the picture. More buds had opened today and some spent bloom petals were on the ground but the bush had pretty much held it's shape. Many of my other bushes were really drooping tonight.

Perfectly fabulous! I will remember this one for sure.

Some folks mention a yellow, and also the Paprika which are most BS tolerant. Apparently they do get BS. However, the color works great for me, and the local nursery 2 miles away carries them, so I'll see about riding my bike over there tomorrow and talking to the gals about them. I haven't ever seen them in stock there, (but the nursery name is on the website).

GGG, you checked the Easy Elegance web site? I'm not familiar with a Paprika one, but yes there are several yellow also. I believe the yellow I purchased for my DD is Easy Elegance, but can't remember which one it was....sorry. I do know that there are many more EE roses than are listed on their web site. Every year they add a couple new ones. But do I know there are others as well because I have some EE's that are not listed. I think I may have saved a file of the ones when I was researching several years ago.

Hey, if you are still having such high temps, call first before you ride your bike 2 miles!!! Don't want you getting sun or heat stroke all because of a rose!

Goodness, Mary Lu! I ride my bike that far EVERY day. It's my means of transportation. I never ride over 3 miles any single way - but these days to get anywhere you have to spend the time out in the heat. Big glasses, floppy hats, tons of water and some sun screen. As long as it is just a few hours I'm good. It only takes me 20 minutes to ride 2 miles.

oh dear, you are a much better woman than me! The kids bought us bikes last summer but we haven't had much time to ride them yet this year. It had been almost 40 years since I had ridden a bike and did they laugh at me my first try. To say I was "wobbly" is putting it mildly!

I am trying to figure out the size of them, but the photos dont have much to contextualize them. I am guessing about 3ft tall and 3x 4 ft wide/deep?

They are lovely, I havent seen a lot of shrub roses, I wonder if it could take a full blown zone 4 winter. (I'm in WI near Mpls)

mandolls, yes you are about right. Though the one planted between 2 peonies is not as large. The peonies shade it and somewhat crowd it. I will take a pic tonight with something in it so you can tell size.

Not sure about Mpls, but we did have several nights last winter where we got down to -27 degrees.