Colleen, holy smokes! What a beautiful rose. Im so excited to grt mine ( monday ).

You doggie is really an adorable garden helper.

Your garden walk is going to be stunning!

Good Morning,

Kristine, Congrats on ordering R Coral! Reminiscents do bloom profusely I read. My 2 Reminscent Pink & Crema are starting to bloom all the time, but small plants w/ 1-3 blooms first year. Tgey seem hardy abd are starting to grow vigorously at now end of first season. Thete blooms are ”frilly,” as opposed to O Lady of Guadelupe-she has a majestic filly bloom-a beautiful rose-I’d order her-absolutely.

Yesterdays Reminiscent Crema 3 blooms…

She’s is 3 feet tall now, beside a potted grape vine. (Not in the pot.) Fall cool brings her color (creamy-now almost yellow) out out. In summer she is more creamy white.

@ColleeninMHD 6a Lovely R Coral & R Pink blooms!!!!! and stone walkway! Your rose looks beautiful & healthy!!!!

Love to see the bloom as it opens all the way?

@forever_a_newbie_VA8 Yay, Your R Coral bloomed! And lovely R Pink bloom! My Reminiscent Pink & Crema niw bloom all the time, but inly 3 blooms each. I am sure they will bloom profusely next year!

@Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley

Reminscent roses grow 3-4 ft, bloom profusely, like all the time!!!!! I am noticing that now at end of season as my sm new 2 Reminiscent roses are finally maturing some. It takes first year to establish them own-root….. mine have just a few canes and roses on each every day. Yes, they will bloom more often than Summer Romance; however, Summer Romance has the most beautiful large clusters of blooms ever-I have 2 Summer R-& they still get a front row seat in my gardens. However, I am trying to fill out the front & side of my home w/ profuse bloomers. I keep reassessing.NO BS on either-disease resistant. R Creme‘s soil is very wet as near a faucet & too much rain… R Crema doesn’t care-grows well anyway-absoutely no fungus-great green dark leaves-beautiful blooms-doesn't even notice being wet a lot!!!!! WOW!

I think I need to get the other 2 Reminiscence roses. They are all so pretty

This is my R pink today

I love all these posts! So much to look forward to. I will mention this, I have 40 + roses and these R provenwinners are by far the healthiest! Absolutely no diseases at all.

Day 2:

I am sooooo glad that I ordered this rose in Coral.

Colleen, you are making me drool

My coral Reminiscent arrived from Garden Crossings and it is in pretty rough shape . Im sure it will be fine but after receiving my Easy Spirit from Hight Country, the comparison is shocking.

Dave, Colleen?

Is this where you ordered your Reminiscent roses ?

Im sure that it will be fine with some babying

I bet so, too too, Kristine - I’m sure it’ll bounce back. I‘ll have to add R. Coral next year - it looks amazing.

I cut off a little dead. I didnt want to take more than a teeny piece for fear that there wouldn't be anything left.

I repotted in to a gallon size and with the expected warm weather it should thrive.

It is on the deck in a place where it gets sun until 11 and then shade.

Here's to new baby roses

Kristine, I ordered my 2 roses from Garden Crossings in May, too. They were very healthy then-good weather. However, GCrossings is located in Michigan. Michigan may be cool like my weather now…. some rain which is causing BS to some roses, some roses are turning yellow, defoliating in these areas. (Mine are pretty healthy, but I keep them cleaned up.) Yours may have been effected by packaging, too. Good News! Reminiscents are pretty disease resistant, breed originally in Serbia. It will develop into a hardy rose for you!

I am already thinking that I need another one. But that is my sick thinking. If one is good then a dozen is better. The pink looks really nice as well.

Kristine, I am excited about them blooming all the time! I’d like orofusions of blooms when I ealk diwn the side of my home. Tge do have blooms all the time now…. even the young roses they are! 2 great roses!!!! Yes!

I am very excited to read about these roses. They look very beautiful, or at least photogenic, and suitable for modern gardens. Though I have a tiny "mature garden" and no room - and also semi shade, unless I have the fortitude to do some severe editing.

As far as hardiness, Serbia is actually located in the Balkans, Its inhabitants fought very courageously against the invading Nasties in WW2. They seem, also to be a hotbed of discerning rose enthusiasm, which warms my heart. As far as plant hardiness Serbia has a "moderate continental climate", Zone 6 - 8.

forever_a_newbie_VA8 I am glad to hear you are recovering your sense of smell after Covid. I caught it, too, in May, and lost mine. But I do seem to be able to still smell some floral scents, including roses, which makes it easier. Other smells are still quite faint, though gradually improving. I have not yet recovered the ability to perceive the bad smells, which in a way is a blessing, if a mixed one.

Monarda, I dare say loss of ability to detect bad smell might be good thing ha. Luckily you still can smell the rose. That is half of the pleasure of growing them.

I bought one of each color of the Reminiscent series earler this season from Garden Crossings. All have grown well and are attractive plants. IMHO, Crema has the most striking bloom but all are pretty. Fragrance on all three has been moderate at best and very coarse in quality, but that might be due to the very young age of the plants (except I do have multiple other young own root plants that are producing astounding amounts of delicious fragrance). All in all, my current assessment is that these are good but not outstanding roses. I like them so far but do not yet love them.

Chris, I agree with your assessment on fragrance. I have R pink, the fragrance is light mostly, sometimes a little stronger. Riseup Lilac Days, bought the same time, also a young plant, o the other hand has very strong scent. It smells of grapefruit with nice spice. I normally cut them when most of the buds on a cluster are open and bring home. The fragrance keeps me refreshed and focused while working. But the bloom is only 2 inches and can reach 2.75 inches according to the description. A cluster can have many flowers though

Thanks Chris for your review.

Maybe for a pink I will go with Rosemantic pink.

Beautiful pictures everyone. What’s the best place to purchase these new roses? PW’s website usually has very high shipping cost for me.

@Sumera 9a_Houston

Purchase Reminiscent roses from Gardencrossings.com

Thank you!

I ordered Reminiscent Pink and Reminiscent Coral because of this post. I want more color and fragrance in my garden. I hope these do well. Garden Crossings is shipping them to me next week. I decided to try an Illuminati Tower Mockorange plant too.

@Flowerescent NJ Zone 6 Congrats on your rose order! R Pink & R Coral will be lovely after they get established-give them a year or so to grow. It takes 1-3 years for own root roses to mature. My first growing season-they both had a few blooms after awhile non-stop. 2nd year they ought to mature sine & have 20-30 blooms constantly! 3rd year-hope they are blooming machines!!!

It looks like Proven Winners is adding one more rose to their Rise Up lineup - Rise Up Emberays. I like the blend of the strong colors.

https://www.provenwinners.com/plants/rosa/rise-emberays-rose-rosa-x

My Riseup Lilac Days have put on so many buds. The leaves are absolutely clean. And the buds’ color is lovely. I cannot be happier since I know the flowers are very fragrant

Blooms are much bigger than last year，over 2.5 inches

Beautiful lilac color

healthy bush

Rise up Lilac Days is a blooming machine.

With Julia Child

Pink Reminiscence

@forever_a_newbie_VA8 - Both are looking great! The color of Rise Up Lilac Days is wonderful. I like that it greets you at the base of the stairs.

Nice photos! One of the Pink and Coral Reminiscence plants I purchased died. I forgot which. It was very puny with a puny root system.. I should have potted it up instead of putting it in the ground. The remaining one has leafed out now that it is May. I look forward to seeing how it does.

Yeah maybe you got a weak plant. To me the pink reminiscence is quite vigorous. It has not bloomed much this year but has put a lot of buds now. I am somewhat disappointed about the fragrance. It is a sweet scent when it is present but most of the time I cannot smell anything.

Rise up Lilac Days really exceeds expectation. The color is true to description and the ”extremely fragrant” is no exaggeration. I will see how it will rebloom while season goes

Pink Reminiscence’s time has come! after blooming a few flowers here and there for a few weeks now it is in full bloom.

The soft pink does not fade, with its old rose form. Not much fragrance, except for some clean spice. Last year I sometimes smell old rose but it has not come this year

Good companions with Fun in the Sun

The Reminiscent coral finally got its home in the ground and its first blooms

It looks to be a healthy rose and I expect great results.

Thank you everyone for this incredibly helpful thread! I saw Rise Up Lilac Days at a garden centre recently (before I saw this post!) and I just could not resist it, so I did an impulse buy, and I am so happy that I did, after reading through this thread!!!

For those of you with Rise Up Lilac Days, does it behave like a shrub or a climber for you please?

Does anyone have Rise Up Amberness please? The ones that I have seen locally seem to be less healthy than the Rise Up Lilac Days, which does look much more vigorous. What is your experience please?

Kristine, Reminiscent Coral is lovely!

@ostrich, congtatulations on your new rose. my Riseup Lilac Days is a climber. It has long smooth branches that are easily to bend and train. Introduction says it is a small climber.

Oh yes, that Reminiscent Coral is STUNNING! OK, it's on my shopping list now... LOL!

Forever, I saw another Rise Up Lilac Days at a store on sale, so I just had to get that too! Ouch.... too many impulse buys here.... ha ha... Mine just got into the ground last week, and is now coming up with lots of buds. This guy really is so healthy and vigorous so far - I just love it! :-)

I have Reminiscent Coral and she’s a beauty. I actually just purchased Reminiscent Crema this afternoon since there is a sale going on right now at Proven Winners Direct. If anyone wants Reminiscent Coral there were still some available in the quart size for $13.99 (normally $19.99) as well as a few other roses

Looks like they will start bringing in the edible line froms Pheno Geno roses first introduction is Flavorette Honey-Apricot

https://www.provenwinners.com/plants/rosa/flavorette-honey-apricot-rose-rosa-x

Reminiscent Pink is growing slower in my cool climate - was definitely ”creeping” in its second year but it was in almost continuous bloom. The blooms remind me a lot of Souvenir de la Malmaison. Not much fragrance to my nose yet.

@Christian - I like the look of Flavorette Honey Apricot. I’m not sure if I’d use it for its culinary intents, though. It looks like they’re releasing an additional Flavorette rose - Pear’d. It supposedly has a light pear taste.

Dave, Flavorette Pear’d looks enticing. How is the fragrance?

my Pink Reminiscence is very vigorous. In one and half years it grows to over six feet though narrow. The canes are flex so I had to tie them. Fragrance is not reliable sometimes I can smell clean and sharp apple scent.

Rise up Lilac Days has grown to a crazy 12 feet and we had to build a new pergola to move it past fall.

Spring Meadow Nursery doesn’t note the fragrance, only the taste (light pear). I wish they would as I’m sure others may want to grow for more than eating.

https://springmeadownursery.com/plantfinder/flavorette-peard-rosa-63450

That’s incredible that both Reminiscent Pink and Rise Up Lilac Days have been so vigorous for you. Rise Up Lilac Days put on some great growth for me this year but then deer reduced it significantly at one point. Hopefully the fragrance of Reminiscent Pink improves for both of us. I think if ”scent” is included in the name, it had better deliver fragrance. I’m glad Rise Up Lilac Days has a wonderful fragrance at least.

I just wanted to pop in to say "thank you" to all of you for this wonderful thread - it certainly brightened up my dark, cold winter days! I am now very much looking forward to seeing how my Rise Up Lilac Days will do this coming season, and I would love to try some of these other beautiful roses that you have all shown me!!! THANK YOU and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Could someone who has reminiscent coral comment for me on how long the flowers last, or if the bush has flowers most of the time? I was a little disappointed that my At Last rose drops her flowers so fast, and they don’t even last a day indoors in a vase. It would be lovely if reminiscent Coral’s flowers last a little better!

Here come the blooms again. Rise up Lilac Days has filled the yard with fragrance

It used to be at the fromt porch. It has grown so fast in 1 year we had to build a 10 feet hight pergola to fit it.

Happy gardening!

Oh my goodness that is so beautiful ! and once again i planted a rose where it needs more space than i gave it . whoops !!!!

Wow! Now I need to reconsider keeping mine in a pot.

@Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca, @marascz9b I know, the description has it as small climber of 5-8 feet. But definitely not so in my area. Fortunately it seems a really vigorous plant and took the move without a blink

Full plant of Rise up Lilac Days.

Pergola is over 9 feet

forever_a_newbie, That is amazing! Thanks for posting the photo.