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This is a much larger plant than its HMF description suggests, in my garden at least, where I prune hard each year to keep it at about two metres high by six metres wide. It is the only one of my roses that I prune with the hedge shears. It does look ugly for a few weeks, but always bounces back with prolific new growth and copious blooming.

Its an okay landscape rose, but it requires a suit of armor to prune :P

I grew it in New Jersey where I grew several hundred roses. Sea Foam proved vigorous, disease-free, and extremely foliferous. I planted it to the west of a juvenile maple where it got morning shade and root competition. I rarely watered it. In four years the three I planted fully covered a triangular area about ten feet on a side and succeeded in choking out weeds. This was a good thing, because Sea Foam's thorns are big, sharp, vicious. In bloom it was essentially covered in flowers and it looked glorious. Out of bloom its dark, shiny, holly-like foliage pleased me much. It did not, however, repeat for me there in zone 6b. I have heard that in south Texas it languishes in the heat and suffers from blackspot. While most of the hybrid tea roses I planted in NJ died of blackspot and many other supposedly disease-resistant cultivars such as Carefree Wonder languished from the disease, Sea Foam was untouched. There were perhaps a dozen rose cultivars that pleased me about as much, but I cannot say any pleased me much more than Sea Foam.