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Heirloom grabbed me by the nose in Home Depot years ago, and I would not be without one in my garden. Mine has been moved three times, once across country and never blinked. It is disease resistant and very winter hardy. This is one I would recommend to any novice rose grower. It is a bloom machine and requires very little attention.
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I am surprised to see the zone 7 rating for Heirloom on HMF. This rose has been bullet-proof here in the unforgiving cold/hot/dry/windy zone 5 (or lower) climate of the high desert in Central Oregon. I have moved this rose twice and it has continued to reward me with it's fragrant, beautiful lavender flowers for over 12 years. We recently experienced a cold front with night time temperatures down to -6 this March which resulted in heavy damage (& death) to most Hybrid T's in my garden. To my surprise... not only did Heirloom suffer "any" damage to the canes... it fared far better than the Buck rose Distant Drums beside it. To top it off, it has never shown even a hint of black-spot or powdery mildew that afflicts her other poor neighbor Henri Martin. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend this rose enough. I have an affinity to OGR's but this one never seems to let me down. I have only a couple grafted roses as they are more of a challenge in my climate, but my Heirloom happens to be one of them. And, even in grafted form it continues to thrive.
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Heirloom as own-root died through my zone 5a winter, and Heirloom as grafted-on-Dr.Huey is prone to blackspot & losing all its leaves during heavy rain.
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Own root behaves the same way for me!
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I now have grafted as well as own root. We had a couple of very humid days and all bs and defoliated. There are some pretty purple flowers on bare spindly bushes though! I moved some from a clay mix to sandy fast draining soil in full sun but the end results are the same here no-spray.
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My 2nd own-root died this past winter (inside my garage). A week ago I bought Heirloom as bare-root ($5) grafted-on-Dr.Huey. I planted it 6 feet from a large tree, so that spot is eternally dry & won't get wet. Dave and Deb Boyd posted the best bush of Heirloom (grafted on Dr.Huey) in their alkaline loamy soil & zone 5a, with only 12" of rain per year. That's very little compared to my 20" of rain this past winter, plus 40" during spring flood & summer, for a total of 60" of wetness.
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I hope that you have good luck with yours! I'm expecting mine to behave in the summer when it rarely rains but if they don't, there are so many that are so much more reliable in my area.
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10 JUL 19 by
plisa
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I have had the exact same experience with Heirloom. I have lost a 3-4 plants now. It does well initially, even pulls through winter. But get's heavy blackspot, defoliates and then plant becomes progressively weaker and simply disappears. Mine have been grafted. I love the flower and fragrance. but no luck growing this one.
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Thank you for the info.
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