Finally, here she is, small, healthy, lots of buds, and beginning to bloom: Pomponella . Isn't she a sweetie!

Here's the whole bush--still small. Don't know how large she will get--evidently quite large in some regions, but the official catalogues list her as much smaller.

And a final view of one of her (small) pompom clusters. They are adorable!

Think I'm going to really like this one.

Kate

Tammy

You'll fall in love with Pomponella fairy Tale as she gets more mature. She's like a larger flowered and repeating version of Raubritter.

But yes, be warned, she wants to become a rather large rose and her cane hardiness is also very good, so you may eventually need to prune her to keep her around the size you want her.

Kate

Sorry, I haven't smelled my new rose--cuz my allergies are so bad that I can hardly breath. . . period! : (

She is a charmer, however, isn't she!

Kate

She came close to doubling in size by fall--but sends out some rather long canes that wave at you across the garden. Not sure if that is a permanent problem (I had to trim some back) or just an indicator of how big she will grow next year as she gains another year of maturity and fills out some more. The clusters of flowers are on the tips of the canes, so I wouldn't want her getting really big and still throwing out individual longer canes--the flower clusters would be swaying high up in the blue sky!

One thing I'm not sure I like--in the flower clusters, the individual blooms that opened first tend to deteriorate into an unattractive pinkish/light brown--lots of dead-heading, in other words. But I have to do that on a couple other roses also, so . . . . Again, I'll have to see next year how she matures.

When I see her new blooms, I get all excited about her--but when I think about some of her other traits, I'm not really sure how I feel about her as a whole. Like I've said twice already, I think I need another year or two for some maturity before I can fully judge. I do know that I really want her to work out fine in my garden.

Kate

Lynn