Rose True Bloom™ True Passion - Update // LOOK what happened to the BEST Performing Rose We Grow!

Well, hello and welcome to the trial gardens here at Over-the-Vest Nurseries. This is a busy commercial nursery lots going on, including testing and trialing of new varieties. And about a year or so ago I made a video showing you how to transplant a container grown rose. Now at that time I was using a variety called True Bloom True Passion. It was a small plant at that time grown in a two-gallon pot. And I want to give you an update now about 15 months or so later to show you what has happened to that plant. And here it is. What an amazing amount of performance this plant has put on. It's been in flower now for the whole of the summer and now as we enter early autumn and getting towards the end of the growing season, I wanted to show you a couple of things. First of all, look at the foliage on this plant and remember that this has never been sprayed. This is what we call our no-spray trial where we plant out various varieties of roses to see how they would do in a garden situation without any form of spraying. Now I was in my early horticultural education taught to spray roses every 10 days. Get the chemicals out and spray them on there. And I tell you, that's something I really don't want to do and I think it's something you don't want to do either. So finding a variety like this that has grown through the whole of the season and remained remarkably clean. Look at these leaves on here really shiny and dark green and not a smidge of disease on there. That's what makes this variety remarkable. Also the fact that this has been flowering from the early summer all the way through until now. It's not looking at its best. A couple of weeks ago it was absolutely gorgeous, just loaded with flowers. And so you're seeing it here in its reality and it's not at its peak time, but you can imagine I think how this would look in your garden. And as you see it's really very colorful, producing lots of these really quite large semi-double flowers that put on a terrific eye-catching display. And in addition to that, it also has very attractive young growth too. As you see it comes out with this burgundy red color to really accentuate the gorgeous color of the flowers. Now unlike many other varieties that set rose hips what's really neat about this variety is that it appears to be almost sterile. In looking at the plant over four years I've only seen hips on it once, and that was only just a few. What happens is when the flowers are going over, the petals fall off and then it has hips left but they don't form seed. Instead they're like this one, they turn a yellowish brown color and eventually as they go through life they're like this one that's totally brown and then falls off. Meanwhile the plant is growing out and making flower buds like this here and that's why it keeps on flowering through the season. Great because you get this continuation of flowering and also of course much less work, because you don't have to go through and deadhead the plant. And also I should point out that because it's such a nice vigorous grower this plant is growing on its own roots. Unlike a lot of other roses that are budded and grafted this one is vigorous enough to grow on its own roots and therefore you don't need to worry about troublesome rose suckers either. And even though it isn't at its peak this is a good time to give you the update, a good time to compare it with other varieties, because with the heat of the summer the drought stresses and particularly the effects of debilitating diseases like black spot and mildew often at this time of year if they haven't been sprayed they're totally defoliated and looking really ugly. Look at this in comparison strong and healthy, lots of vigorous bright green healthy foliage, lots of new buds coming on it's been flowering for weeks and weeks and weeks without any care and attention. That's what makes this such a remarkable variety. So there you are, that's why I wanted to give you an update on the development of what happens to a rose when you buy the right variety when you get one that's been trialed and tested and is a product of a world-class breeding program and you work with your local garden center to make sure that it's right for your conditions and the zone that you live in. We certainly here, after four to five years of testing this variety can really recommend this True Bloom True Passion, it's a fantastic variety and if you'd like to find out even more about it check out some of the other videos on this channel we've published lots of information about it over the years and we think that it's one that you'll really enjoy growing in your garden. This is David Wilson, enjoy your gardening it's good for us and it's great for our environment too.