Now that I have had it for a few years and it's fully mature, I'll review it. I just finished winter pruning it to the ground
The cons: The major con is the prickles. Its basically a miniature scots rose, despite not being related. It's a prickly, winding little b******. It's VERY un-enjoyable to prune. The other con is that it's not an improvement on Knock Out's color. It's still carmine, despite having a halfday of red.
The pros: It has all of KO's health and gets rid of minor diseases KO had. Even the wood is clean. Its very recurrent, it's more double than KO, and the plant is below knee-high. Due to its recurrency, there is no need to prune it during the growing season. However, it DOES set hips, but they don't seem to impede rebloom.
I beg your pardon Rob. It is this sort of help on Patents that Michael Garhart has been giving us for more than a decade now, and perhaps my eyes weren't really open that morning.
