If you provide this rose with good care and culture, it is a very worthy plant. Lots of blooms, good repeat, nice flower form, some fragrance, very hardy. It makes an excellent container rose as well. Stays fairly compact. Morden's blooms are a pretty light pink that ages to ivory, especially in hot sun. It however does not grow well on poorer sites and without adequate care. I tried it with one just to see and it suffered, lacked vigor, and sulked. Blooming slowed way down and it blackspotted much more than my cared for mordens, to the point of defoliation. I put it in a container and give it care and it has returned to it's previous glory. Not a carefree rose but still not super high maintenance. Just give it what love you can and you'll be rewarded nicely. Makes many hips and the seed has been super-viable for me, producing a good many seedlings, many of them a lot like the parent but a few have shown very interesting characteristics in form and colouring.

I live in Saskatchewan (zone 2/3) and have had this rose since 2003. Last year it developed blackspot. We had had a really cold and wet summer,so I'm hoping that was why. I'm going to try safers repeatily this year to try to control it. But I have to say that the number of blooms that it produced both years that I have had it was outstanding.

This is my most floriferous rose bush. I have had as many as 400 roses on it at one time. It receives good care. I have seen it in a no care garden and it performed poorly without water, regular fertilization and water.

I am in Zone 5A in northern Illinois and installed this rose in April. It has been blooming repeatedly and is completely disease free. I suspect that, as a rose bred for cold conditions (hardy to zone 4) it responds unpredictably to much warmer zones. I have read references in seveal publications on Canadian superhardy roses to the possibility of blackspot susceptibility in Canadian hardy roses raised in warm zones. The Morden series was specificallly mentioned.