Golden Showers won this years first bloom contest. Although this bloom doesn't look very golden. GS blooms tend to 'blow' very quickly and this is the second day for this one. Even though it's been nice and cool, the sun shines right on this rose and the once very yellow golden petals have opened and turned a pale orangey pink. When it's very hot, I don't see this color on GS.
I have Golden Showers growing on the outside of our porch railing. It took a few years for the rose to get to the point where it could reach the railing. The base of the rose is behind a shrub and it apparently didn't get enough sun, but once it's reached a height above the bushes, it took off and almost engulfed the porch. I've managed to arrange the canes so that it forms a screen around the corner of the porch. My husband loves to sit here and smoke a cigar and he's invisible from the street.
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