Re: original KnockOut rose

**"Lorraine Ballato" l*@msn.com**

Hi, Carolyn!

I purchased the original Knock Out, at Costco of all places in either 2000 or 2001 (I forget).  Since then it has gone through 2 transplants to where I finally think it can live up to Bill Radler's expectations. 

At this point (after several haircuts), it's well over 4 feet tall and wide so it will get yet another shaving next March.  Last season a nearby tuteur fell on it and there it sat for about a week since we were away during that time frame. Ergo, yet another trim which I think reinvigorated it.

We had a very deep and long winter about 3 years ago. I lost all my roses -- about a dozen --  except for Knock Out and one David Austin.  

There's no way this rose can be categorized as other than a keeper; would that some people I know have the same level of determination!

The other rose I have been impressed with is in the Easy Elegance line: Sunrise, Sunset.  I got it at the GWA meeting in Long Island in 2004.  It went into the ground late September, followed by an early and deep winter that year with little snow cover.  It made it through and has since bloomed continually through frosts, hurricanes, and everything else.  This season has been very wet in southwestern Connecticut and this beauty showed not a sign of any black spot, fungal disease, etc.  It was plagued by Japanese Beetles which met their match from the Pharm Solutions insect spray, the only treatment I gave the plant.  Another keeper!

Lorraine

Lorraine Ballato
16 Mudry Farm Rd.
Brookfield, CT 06804
(203) 740-8636
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carolyn Ulrich<c*@sbcglobal.net> 
  To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum<g*@lists.ibiblio.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:44 PM
  Subject: [GWL] original KnockOut rose

  For those of you who are growing the original red Knock Out rose, how  
  tall is it? In my garden, my 4-year-old rose is as tall as I am--5  
  feet 4 inches--and probably 4 feet wide. Maybe more.

  All of my other KnockOuts are much more modest in size.

  I'm curious what the rest of you are experiencing.
  Carolyn Ulrich
  Chicagoland Gardening Magazine
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