I have a high opinion of this rose. I planted a grafted 'Awakening' years ago in poor heavy clay soil, intending for it to grow up and onto the roof of a shed. Between unirrigated summer drought and the poor soil it didn't climb, but it did survive, gradually growing on the ground toward an Italian cypress. After several years it got strong enough that I could begin training it up the cypress; it continued to grow and I was able to train it onto the shed roof as well. Now it's a sight. A floriferous rose with elegant handsome blooms, thorny plant, getting a bit of fungal disease in fall but not bad. It blooms relatively late in the rose season, so offers its flowers when others aren't at the height of their bloom. I don't do much of anything for mine except prune it occasionally to cut away the older growth, and it doesn't care; last year I never got around to pruning it, either, but it flowered heavily this spring just the same.