Exceptional blooms, glossy foliage and a strong grower. The scent is lovely and very strong and the colour is stunning. A dark red that t...Read Moreurns a deep pink as it ages. It's not particularly thorny (a little less than average I guess?) and you will get both clusters and single stems that are good for cutting.
This rose also has good disease/pest resistance. In the first two seasons I didn't spray at all and got no pests or disease despite other roses in my garden getting aphids, black spot etc. In this current (third) season there was some disease but I believe this was due to a very dry summer and watering restrictions that put the plants under stress. Still no aphids though.
Rosa 'Lasting Love' is dusky deep crimson red in bud, and once open is often suffused with hues of deep rich pink, although retaining the...Read More overall impression of a deep red rose with a sweet damask fragrance.
Winner of Most Fragrant Rose at NZ Rose of the Year Hamilton 2007.
I had a Lasting Love for about two years. i didn't like it for two reasons. First, it was advertised when I bought it as a dark red ros...Read Moree, and it wasn't; the photos that appear in this web page are accurate in portraying the color. Second, the growth habit was poor. The stems were too short for good cut flower use, the flowers did not as a whole have good form, and often the flowers "balled up" and did not open. I culled it after two years.
The healthiest rose I own....beautiful glossy green leaves that look almost plastic/unreal on a bushy plant with big beautiful blooms. B...Read Morelooms on this plant are dark pinkish red, and have a strong true rose frangrance. Very hardy, with no sign of any disease...
I grow a number of roses in containers on a enclosed balcony. Some have had rust, some have had powdery mildew (a couple quite bad) and some have had a hard time with spider mites. But this rose plant still looks nearly flawless, with no sign of any disease, and barely affected by spider mites.
Exceptional blooms, glossy foliage and a strong grower. The scent is lovely and very strong and the colour is stunning. A dark red that t...Read More
Rosa 'Lasting Love' is dusky deep crimson red in bud, and once open is often suffused with hues of deep rich pink, although retaining the...Read More
I had a Lasting Love for about two years. i didn't like it for two reasons. First, it was advertised when I bought it as a dark red ros...Read More
The healthiest rose I own....beautiful glossy green leaves that look almost plastic/unreal on a bushy plant with big beautiful blooms. B...Read More