Not familiar with ordering plants online from Costco, though since it's a reputable company, one would tend to think that their supplier would have quality stock. Anyways, this rose is definitely on my wish list for spring! Canadian Tire is often a very good source for potted hardy roses and on sale items can often be had for a song.

I ended up deciding against the ordering them as I have no idea where they would go! One plant is plenty, but six..... The David Austin roses on the site were tempting as well.

After adding nearly 40 roses in the last few years perhaps it's time to maintain what I have instead of adding too many more. Great to see these new Canadian additions to the market, from Campfire, Never Alone, Olds College Centennial rose, and now Canadian Shield, its exciting for a rose enthusiast like myself.

I predict roses (and gardening) are going to gain more popularity in the next few years.

I pre ordered a Canadian Sheild Rose from Salisbury Greenhouse to make sure I get one. They 're $33.99. Greenland $ 37.99.

Bought 'Canadian Shield' and 'Oscar Peterson' today at Superstore for $19.99 for 2 gallon size.

I'm excited to see how they do, the foliage is gorgeous.

How are these roses working out? Thanks. Considering getting a couple.

Both are alive and well considering our rough long winter, both are showing flower buds now.

I had Canadian Shield planted where we pile snow on the driveway, so it had little dieback. Last year it has bright red blooms for most of the season. Was healthy. Here is a photo from last year:

I have Oscar Peterson in an area with less wind. It got bad powdery mildew last year, but has no signs of it yet so far. We’ll see if that changes once blooming starts.

Thanks for replying prairie. Yes, had the same kind of winter...brutal. In a 6 month period we had only 2 days when day and night temperatures were above freezing. Long winter. Your Canadian Shield looks really good, thanks for posting pic. Our 2 Morden Centennials have been flowering for a week or so. They bloom for a month or so then start up again in mid August for a while but much weaker than 1st batch.

We've got 2 Endless Summer Hydrangeas which aren't working out too well so considering the CS or zone 3 hardy hydrangea to replace them.

Thanks for taking the time to post. Appreciate it.

Yes it was a terrible winter here. It was almost a 6 month winter, things did not start warming up until late April. Many -30C days without reliable snow cover in most areas of my garden. However today was a hot +27C day which makes up for it.

Here is Canadian Shield today, the bush has increased in size from last year:

This is the first bud to start opening, the flowers are very full. I had to reduce to brightness on the camera to photograph this, I find the red is so bright it is difficult to photograph in full sun:

^^^^Nice! Got a perfect spot for them. Now to get the boss to decide she wants to find another spot for those 10 day blooming Irises. prairie, have you had any issues with leaves being eaten by bugs, blackspot, any problems yet? Thanks.

No black spot or powdery mildew I’ve noticed so far. However I’m in an area where these diseases are less likely to occur (it’s very arid here).

No bugs so far. Although most of my roses will have aphids later on in the summer.

I find the key is as long the soil is good, the crown is planted deep, and they deep watering before the winter freeze, most of my roses grow well.

Mine has yet to be planted in ground, though wintered with plenty of live wood after being sunk in the ground last fall and mounded over just a bit. Has been vigorous and blooms are indeed nice and bright, plant sooon must get its roots in the earth!

Done, it's planted up and looks great, the flowers really draw the eye!

prairie_northrose, how are your Canadian Shield roses doing this year? How tall were yours last year? I wanted some 3-4 feet tall red roses to form a small hedge and was wondering about Winnipeg Parks or Emily Carr, until I saw your Canadian Shields....!!!!!

Ostrich, it’s about 3-4 feet tall. I have live came to about three feet high this year, it was hiding under the snow all winter, it is beside the driveway where snow gets piled up.

The colour of the blooms are a very bright red and long lasting, and it is continuous blooming. blooms have zero fragrance for me.

However the bush shape is terrible and very open, it throws long canes out. If I was to use it in a hedge, I would consider planting more densely. I’ll see if I can take a pic once the rain stops.

Here is a photo of my Canadian Shield today, with the dead canes from winter not yet trimmed. I find the bush form very open.

I can’t believe it’s almost June, my flower beds are only starting to get going!

Thank you so much for the great information, prairie_northrose! This is extremely helpful for me - now I am convinced that I do not want the Canadian Shield roses!!!! Not what I am looking for really....

So how tall do your Winnipeg Parks roses get please?

Winnipeg Parks gets about 2.5 or 3 feet high for me (they reach about about my hip by the end of the season). I have seen ones around town which are lower. I think a key to these doing well is planting the crown about 4” deep and amending the entire bed/planting area, not just the planting hole.

When I do attempt amending, I try to mix equal parts compost, peat & coarse sand with each part of soil to make a fluffy bed.

Hello again prairie. Hope you are well.How long now have you had your Canadian Shield (in the above picture with the dead canes from winter)? Going into your 4th, 5th summer? We did buy one of these...going into 3rd summer and haven't been too excited by it so far. 1st year we got lots of nice flowers but canes were so weak and short the flowers bent them over and the flowers touched the ground. Last year, in the spring, bugs snuck up on me, I just wasn't paying attention and around June 19 leaves had a LOT of holes in them and looked terrible. By July 2nd we did have lots of flowers though but the leaves still looked terrible. Have to pay more attention starting in a few days checking every day for those little white buggers. The stems and leaves look good so far this year but no where near as many canes as yours in the picture. Hope you have a good gardening year. We had frost last night and been sheltering our annuals protecting them nightly for a couple weeks now.

EDIT...ooopps forgot to mention. At the same time we planted the CS Rose we planted INVINCIBELLE RUBY hydrangeas on either side of it. 1st year was disappointing, last year we were impressed and pleased with each plant producing 12 or so flowers. Hasn't grown very tall yet, maybe this year.

I got a Canadian Shield last summer. It spent most of the summer in a container and was planted in the ground in September, i think. The bunnies trimmed it a bit for me in the fall so i covered it with a large container and this spring it had very little die-back. We've had a strange spring and aside from leafing out it hasn't done much yet.

Terry, where in NWO are you? Always nice to find someone who lives around here. :)

I bought this rose when it was blooming pink. It was labelled as Never Alone, which i knew it wasn’t. I was assuming/hoping it was the new Aurora Borealis. It had other buds which looked dark red so i thought maybe there were two roses in there and maybe I could separate them when planting, but they were too entwined, so I planted as is. The red buds bloomed and are definitely not NA. I think they may be Canadian Shield, as they also had those for sale at the time (one of those had a Chinook Sunrise bloom on it lol). I have CS already but don’t think it bloomed last year so don’t remember what it looks like. Most of the new blooms are red. Is it likely that one will take over or will they both continue to bloom? I really didn’t want another CS lol. I guess I will have to go searching for a properly labelled Aurora Borealis now.

Here is an update photo on the Canadian Shield rose, judging by this comment thread it was planted in 2017. There is a little hand shovel at the bottom to give an idea of the size. It’s doing quite well now and has bushed out larger than expected. It’s in a prime location where gets snow piled up on it all winter. It still has an annoying tendency to push out long rigid canes, contradicting the weaker floppy canes at the bottom. The blooms are a true red, slightly deeper than Champlain. Sadly no fragrance for me.

VStapes, it does look like two separate roses to me, but it’s hard without being able to see it in person. I wonder if perhaps one is grafted to the other, or if there were multiple plants in one pot.

Terry, glad to hear Invincibelle Ruby is doing well for you. Mine didn’t make it, but I didn’t prepare the site very well.

Marcia, I am fortunate we don’t have many bunnies in this area. Where I used to live several domestic rabbits got loose and took over the neighbourhood. There were many gardeners fencing off their entire properties.

Canadian Shield is doing quite well at the moment. It hasn't grown a lot, only about 18 or so inches tall now but it has many blooms. I'm very happy with it and with Campfire, which is another prolifically blooming rose. :)

Hi everyone. I am in zone 8 on Vancouver Island. So cold hardiness isn't that much of a concern. What I'm wondering is how heat tolerant the Canadian Shield rose flowers are? Do they shrivel in the heat? I have a South West hot spot rose bed which I'm considering one for. But the rose flowers have to be able to endure heat which includes reflected heat from my house siding, which is natural cedar. Eden climbing rose is a real champ in these growing conditions. Some other roses aren't.