Floribunda Rose, Cluster-flowered Rose 'Julia Child'

I have had this rose for almost a year now and I'm really pleased with it so far. The butter yellow color is really pretty and I love t...Read Morehe old fashioned flower form. What I like best is that it has never been out of bloom, even through our hot summer last year. I have also not had any disease problems whatsoever. Very easy care plant. I like it so much that I bought two more of them this year.

Got this rose as a rescue, was 5 ft tall and section off roots. It died back to the root to nothing then it sprout out new leaves and st...Read Moreem from bare ground. Luckily it must be in its own rootstock otherwise I'll have a stock rose instead. It came back from the dead and now it is doing splendidly. This is my first bloom (see photo) Very golden to begin with and then turns into light butter yellow. Just absolutely gorgeous and charming. NO black spots in misty cold SF under the eves of my windows, under a big potato vine, maybe because I live in a very windy hill. Very healthy leaves of med green. I will say a good detectable scent but not very strong. The bloom stay on for a long time almost 2 weeks.

This plant has been a good bloomer for me. Always having 4-5 flowers or buds on it. Her flowers do well in a vase although they are not l...Read Moreong stemmed. I do not notice any fragrance. Her blooms look almost like an English rose. Very cabbage like, but not globular. She does get black spot on her lower leaves here in South Florida but she's such a vigorous grower that she shakes it off. Overall one of my best producers for blooms so far. We'll see how she handles the rainy season though. I do have to spray all my roses during the rainy season (except for Belinda's dream, she truly is a dream), so it wont be surprising if Juilia needs spraying too.

Spraying and watering with a solution of Neem oil (dilute according to bottle directions - depends on brand purchased) not only banished ...Read MoreJapanese beetles, but also reduced black spot and yellows to almost nothing on Julia Child and my other roses. Julia is planted against a south facing wall with protection from eastern and western winds. She is complemented by Echinacea Harvest Moon, Little Spire Perovskia and Rose "Intrigue'".

I have three of these roses. Two are about 2 feet tall and one that I purchased as a band is still about 10 inches tall. These were all p...Read Morelanted in Spring 2012. The larger ones have been just great. They bloomed almost immediately after being planted and they are always covered in roses. I have opened up to yellow roses after reading the positive comments about this rose online. It took me a few months of sniffing these roses...(Yes us rose lovers are a little strange), before I was able to smell that delicious scent that everyone describes. I would not call the scent licorice as others do, but it is a nice fragrance.

I have one in an east facing location and two in a west facing location. I have not noticed a difference in their flower production. They all perform the same and are always covered in flowers( the band is still little and only bloomed once). I Love these roses. Unfortunately, I don't have room for more!

Julia Child, our beloved TV chef. This rose blooms continuously and profusely on well rounded shrubs and the scent is heavenly sweet lic...Read Moreorice that keeps you smelling for more. Bright, cheerful, buttery yellow blooms that are Absolutely Fabulous!

My 3 Julia Child get blackspot during exceptionally wet/humid periods. I don't care about that. Very floriferious.

I ordered a planting of Julia Child from Chamblee's last autumn. I didn't have a chance to get her in the ground before freeze. She overw...Read Moreintered in her pot on my front porch. I planted her in March of this year. She's taken off like a lightning bolt, lots of new growth, lots of blooms and a great fragrance. She's outpacing the Ebb Tide I planted next to her 3:1

I've noticed no problems with any fungal ailments thus far.

My Julia Child gets blackspot in our humid summers (Omaha, NE).

Butter yellow blooms on plant all the time. Mine planted in large concrete box on sidewalk west facing in somewhat sunnier part of San F...Read Morerancisco which is of course cool evenings and some summer fog as well, dewy mornings. It grew very well and bloomed continuously. Am going to get another for container next to it.

The blooms of Julia Child are really goregous. I agree they make you happy to behold. I planted mine in a large pot, due to the horrible ...Read Moremole and chipmunk problems I have. These critters borrow everywhere. I can feel the hollow areas around my gardens. I can actually stick my hand into the tunnels...my whole arm would go but the thought of finding a critter in there.. jeezze. So I am attempting to plant all my important plants into large pots and bury them in the ground to help conserve water. This has worked well for those I have done so far. However my roses do not seem to be flourshing as well as they might in the ground. Any one else experienced at pot growing roses??

Very nice healthy fragrant rose.

The Negative post is for people who want to know about black spot problem. In Massachusetts, zone 5a, we had wet weather in June, and I ...Read Morenoticed my Julia Child got black spots on leaves. I have Carefree Beauty and Champlain and they are not affected at all. The Julia Child was planted last year and did not have the black spot back then. It took quite an effort to get rid of all affected leaves, and now I have to start spraying anti fungal solution throughout the year... I love yellow roses and its clustered blooms are absolutely stunning beautiful, so it may be worth-keeping the effort. We will see - if I don't like that amount of effort, I will trade it with someone!

I have owned my Julia Child since April of 07'. The most beautiful Buttery Yellow Rose I have ever seen. It always makes happy. This i...Read Mores my baby. Deep green, shiny leaves, d.r., mold resistant which is a blessing on Cape Cod, MA. I now try to buy primarily roses hybridized by Tom Carruth. You honestly can't go wrong. He's my Rose God.

In agreement with so much of what the other kind reviewers have stated. This is a great looking, vibrant, fragrant plant. The kind of y...Read Moreellow that makes you happy when you look at it. Also seems very reliable. Now if I could just get my hands on a first edition of Mastering the Art of French Cooking....

My husband got this for me from Lowes (Jackson Perkins) in June 2008. It was already in bloom and bloomed nearly contiunously until frost...Read More. It is maybe 8' from my driveway and still small (18" tall?) and I can smell it when I go to my car whenever it has more then 4 or 5 blooms. I can't wait until it gets bigger. :D

I can't say enough about this rose. The blooms are a perfect medium yellow and they resist fading in the hot East Texas sun. They last ...Read Moreseveral days and rebloom frequently. Her foliage stays free of disease and the plant makes a nice low bushy shape naturally. I'll be buying more Julia Childs to replace other roses that can't perform as well as she does. She's a winner.

Planted this rose for my father in honor of my mother, who loved yellow roses. It was a JP rose bought from a local nursery. Planted two...Read More years ago in August and is now almost 5' tall and around 3' wide. Continuous blooms from May through September. At times you can smell it just walking past. It is kind of a sweet smell, but not as licorice as say a hyssop. Beautiful buds and a nice yellow color. Dad's only complaint is that the flowers bloom in clusters so it's hard to cut a long stem off to take inside without getting some unopened buds. It survived a tough growing year that killed two of our roses and severely damaged three others. I would highly recommended it.

2006 AARS (All-American Rose Selection) winner.

I ordered this bareroot from J&P and planted it on April 15. On June 9 it has it's first bloom. The plant is currently only about 18 inch...Read Morees tall, but bushy, with several buds. Seems very disease-resistant. I'm very pleased so far. Will try to post a photo later.

Planted as bare root in Feb. 2006 (at least I think that was the month, was a Christmas gift), as of May 25, 2006 the bush is about 3 ft....Read More tall, dark green, large leathery, shiny, disease free (so far, even though it has been a very damp spring in So. Calif.) leaves. There are 26 open blossoms, 1.5 to 2 inches across, in clusters, butter yellow fading to light yellow. Plenty more buds waiting to open. Light fragrance. Very happy, so far.

I bought this rose from jackson Perkins and it came later than I would have liked (the week before Easter - mid April). It was a pot gro...Read Morewn rose and came with green healthy leaves. I planted it in a very large pot (30" diameter by about 35"). It now has one fat bud which is a medium golden yellow. I'm concerned about getting it through the winter. It hasn't grown much yet, but looks healthy. The blooms are supposed to smell like licorice..