Hybrid Tea Rose 'Gemini'

I live in north California, zone 9 & having this rose for few years now ,real pretty large creamy white/pink rose, disease resident, we...Read Morell in growth in my garden as in tree rose ..No problem whatsoever, real pretty rose & glad I bought it, loves the sun & fertilizer in every couple of months!

This is a beautiful rose. It is large and the flower form is excellent. It would be a great exhibition rose, unless they care about the...Read More fragrance; it is not fragrant.

My problem with it is that it is too tender for my NE Wisconsin winters. It is rated on this site to be hardy to Zone 5. I live in Zone 5 and it dies over the winter, even though I box it up and bury it in ground. I have tried this rose twice, with the same result.

I think that this would be a fine rose farther south, but it fails up here on the frozen tundra 20 miles east of Green Bay.

I was soooo lucky with my Gemini tree rose... I was a rose newbie and a first-time gardener who didn't know crap... It survived its bare...Read Moreroots not being pre-soaked, an ice storm and the horrible transplant of being dug straight out of frozen ground, severe canker from winter damage, and another horrible transplant to its permanent pot in which it lost over 1/3 of its anchor roots and 2/3rds of it feeder roots... It is true that I fed it a magic formula of super-dilute Gardenville sea tea and kept its damaged roots very moist until it recovered, but its recovery still wouldn't have been possible had it not been such a strong vital plant...

I also lucked out in that my Gemini tree rose has a wonderful fragrance to it (it seems it got the scent from its scented parentage)...It smells so sweet and fruity and its blooms are so beautiful and abundant! If you feed it, it's like Fragrant Cloud in terms of being constantly in bloom! I love this rose...

This is a beautiful rose and is great for the show table. But it needs really good winter protection to survive in zone 5.