PlantFiles: Hybrid Tea Rose
Rosa 'Joseph's Coat'

I just put in one of these roses this spring. We have had record-setting rainfall this year, but still no black spot to be found on this plant. I did make sure to plant it where it would get good air circulation and not be crowded by anything else.

It has bloomed beautifully since the second week of June. It is loaded with blossoms, and I can't say enough about how beautiful those flowers are. Everyone loves them!

Even though we've had several severe storms with a lot of wind, I have not experienced any problems with fragile canes. I think it's probably best to tie them to the trellis or support while they are still quite young and bend easier. Beware of those thorns, though! Mine has some thorns that are almost an inch long.

This is one plant I will definitely go out of the way to make sure it survives our winter. I want this one to live for a long time!

I planted this rose earlier in the year as a bare-root plant, and it is already around 4 1/2 feet high with plenty of buds and leaves. It has been prone to blackspot, as others have noted, but I fell in love with this rose years ago on a vacation in Ireland and am more than willing to treat the blackspot in exchange for the many colors that are to come.

I planted two Josephs coats. The first two weeks it bloomed like crazy. I applied some rose food as directed and in a week it quit blooming and has not bloomed since. Could I have done something wrong? Is this a norm for this rose?
does anyone have any ideals how to get the bloming restarted?

I love these roses and would hate to have to replace them and start over with another type of climber.

Any help would great, James in Missouri

This is by far, my favorite rose. It produces masses of multicolored blooms in the spring, slows down during the heat of summer, then comes back with an even more stunning show in early fall. In my garden, it loses most of it's leaves in the summer so looks pretty yuck, but the bloom show makes up for it, and I am starting a clematis at it's base to make up for the lack of summer leaves.

I have had 30+ of these roses for nearly 20 years. They line our long curving driveway. All I have to do is feed and prune them. They might do even better but I have raised seven children and did not have time to fuss with them and they have been great. We had a cool damp spring here in southern California and they looked awful after the first new growth, well it might have had something to do with all the poppy's coming up in their beds. Anyway the competition with the poppys was not good for them. I tried that Bayers 3 in 1 for the first time because they did not look good. It has been about 2 weeks since I used it and the new growth is looking good. Everyone thinks they put on the most beautiful display. I love the variety of color. A couple of them are more in the shade and they definitely don't do as well but they are still alive.

This rose blooms in all the lovely colors of a delicious citrus salad! At the same time you can see, yellow, white, pink and orange and the smell is divine. This rose is one heck of a climber, always finding its way up over the patio roof, completely bypassing the trellis.

The thorns are something frightful. They are plentiful and super sharp! I've been scratched many times by this beauty. Ahh, the color and frangrance make it all worth it, though.

This rose does cope with shade rather well, but will climb very high to get to the sunlight it craves.

I love this rose. Fragrance is delightful, and more than just slightly fragrant. I call it a soapy, clean, rose fragrance. Colors are fantastic. Definitely blooms with less vigor after first flush in the spring (in western WA). Everyone who has seen mine or gotten one of the beautiful flowers in a vase is enchanted with the fragrance. Recently tried propagating with cuttings, 4 of 10 made it. Treacherous thorns on this one, but low maintenance. Got to be about 8-10 feet, at least 7 years old but probably older. Got rather leggy at some point and I pruned it nearly to death (so I thought), but it came back very nicely and rewarded with abundant blooms. I was, however, much nicer to it after that! I've submitted photos to show the color variance. Looking to plant in my new garden--worth seeking out in my opinion.

Beautiful flowers, but blackspot is definitely a problem.

I just planted 2 of these this spring. When they are not blooming they are putting on new growth. They are completely healthy while their neighbors have killing blackspot, and they are incredibly fragrant. The brilliant color is visible from down the street!

I put this in the front corner of our home, facing east, about 10 yrs. ago. It is indeed VERY THORNY, and gets blackspot very bad here. I tried everything to treat it for that, but nothing worked until now. We live in the country, but are within 8 miles of a fishing beach, and have marshland near us. The humidity is rough on roses, no doubt about that! Blackspot is the worse enemy here, of roses. I've tried everything out there, but I did try a new item this year to battle it, when I felt like giving up. It's Bayer's 3 in 1 for Roses- I hope no one thinks I'm advertising this, I only want to share that it works. I had the 2 in 1 last year, but it doesn't have fungicide in it like this does. I used it twice so far this year, and it seems to be working well. It lasts for 6 weeks, and is fertilizer, insecticide, and fungicide in one. It's not cheap, but it could be worse...found it in Walmart for $14.98 or so. In a garden mart it was $4 more, but if it works, it's priceless! It says it makes 10 gallons on the label, but not if you're going to treat for Blackspot...only if you use it for lesser damaging things that require less chemical to water. I just want to spread the word that finally there is a product that does what it says, to relieve the rose lovers out there. There is one thing I don't understand, the roses were all different colors the first year it bloomed, but now they are all deep reddish purple every year since. Can anyone tell me why? I have about 8 rose plants of asst. kinds, and they all get a dose of it and are fine. The real humidity of summer just came today, and I will check and see how they are all doing as time goes by. My Peace Rose never got as big and bushy as now, so I'm glad this stuff works, as it's giving me high hopes of success.

I love the look of this rose, but I had no luck with it thriving here. It would put out a few blooms per season and just never showed it's full potential. I was a bit disappointed in it.

Must be sprayed every few weeks to keep black spot in check, but the gorgeous blooms are worth it. Extremely throny, so I keep it in the back of the yard where it is thriving.

Impressive climbing rose - lovely colors - contrasts well with whites and purples planted around it. Super hardy and not a difficult rose to find in most areas.

Inexpensive beginning: a find at Wal-Mart for $6.00.
Hardiness: I live in Saint John, New Brunswick Canada (zone 5a-5b) and this rose has done reasonably well despite some exposure to winter north winds (base was covered & canes wrapped).
Curb-Appeal: Anyone who walks by comments on this rose when it's in blossom... people can't get over the beautiful colors.