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Blossom
color: Light pink
Fragrance: Slight fragrance
Bloom time: Repeats June - frost
Size: 6-7' tall and wide
Shape: Tall-canes
Uses: Trellis, posts, arbors, mixed
border
Hardiness: Zones 3-9
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John Davis is one of the most beautiful, winter-hardy climbing roses. When this rose is in peak full
bloom in late June, it is smothered in flowers.
Standing next to a fully blooming John Davis rose gives you
a sense of being in a cloud of blossoms. The flowers on this
rose closely resemble that of an Old Garden Rose. The 3 1/2"
blossoms are very double, somewhat quartered and a light pink
color. Blossoms are produced in clusters of up to 17 blossoms
and repeat throughout the summer until frost. It also has very
few thorns and has healthy foliage. John Davis grows 6 to
8-feet tall if given support and makes a great pillar or low-climbing
rose. It can also be allowed to ramble, but it will benefit
from a little pruning to help control its shape a bit. It is very winter
hardy to Zone 3 with no winter cane dieback.
What you'll receive:
Grade #1 own-root plants, shipped bareroot
(no soil or pot) and dormant (no foliage). Learn more about
our plants.
Shipping: $0-$75=$12.00, $75.01-$125=$15, $125.01-$200=$20, >$200=10% of total. Shipped UPS Ground in
spring from early April through mid May.
[Catalog #CR05 - Introduced in
1986 - a Canadian Explorer Series rose]
Roses need sun (at least 6 hours daily); well-drained, fertile
soil; and consistent and adequate soil moisture to thrive
and produce the most blossoms.
Learn more about growing roses:
What's a "bareroot" plant?
 "Bareroot"
is a term that describes how a plant is shipped to you. A
bareroot plant is not in a pot, and is usually dormant (not
actively growing). See the photo to the right that shows what
a bareroot rose looks like. The bareroot plants that we ship
to you were harvested in the fall and placed in cold storage
over the winter to keep them dormant. In the spring, we ship
the bareroot plants to our customers, from early April through
mid May.
Bareroot plants are easy to grow. We include planting instructions
with your order. When you receive your plant, take it out
of the packing material and place it in a bucket of water
so that the roots are completely covered. Let the roots soak
for 4 to 24 hours, then plant it in your garden. Full planting
instructions with photos are available on our Planting
Roses page.
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