Hybrid Tea Rose 'Mister Lincoln'

I planted a new Mr. Lincoln in my rose bed last summer and it didn't have special blooms, that I remember. But right now, the 6th of June...Read More, the bush is 5' tall and bearing 6 perfectly shaped buds with a heavenly, true rose fragrance. It has 6 rather thin canes, but the buds themselves are on long stems, absolutely perfect for cutting. I feed my dozen rose bushes with Scott's granular timed-release rose food, water them deeply once a week, and spray a strong stream of water from the hose if they get aphids. I have always had a Mr. Lincoln in my rose garden. Here, in my zone 4-5 climate in SE Colorado, with our wild swings in weather, hot and cold extremes and strong winds, it has proven very tough. It is growing in partial shade from my American elm overhead, but is still producing beautiful blooms. I cover my roses every fall with a foot tall pile of soil from my annual flower pots, mixed with leaves. Mr. Lincoln is my quintessential, favorite red rose!

My Mr. Lincoln rose bush is my favorite rose, by far. I have received many compliments on it over the last 15 years that it has been bloo...Read Moreming in my front yard. This red rose is perfect. Like many other hybrid tea roses, if you prune the blooms once they have finished blooming just above the 3rd or 4th leaf below the spent bloom, it will bloom again and again right in the same place before summer is over. The smell is amazing. The only problem that I have had is that somehow a red blaze climber seeded itself next to my Mr. Lincoln and the red blaze has been stunting the growth and blooms of my Mr. Lincoln for the last few years. The red blaze is pleasing from a distance but the roses are not appealing up close at all. Yesterday, I finally took the pruning sheers to the red blaze and cut it back as far as I could manage. I am hoping that if I continue to prune the blaze back that my Mr. Lincoln will finally thrive again.

I always received compliments on my Mr Lincoln rose. It is the quintessential red rose. I am not fond of the fragrance as it is very stro...Read Moreng rosy smell. I Much prefer the scent of JFK hybrid tea rose.
And to Botfeeder: the reason Mr Lincoln doesn't flower as profusely as your Drop Dead Red rose is they are different types of roses. Drop Dead Red is a floribunda rose. They by nature bloom more profusely. Mr Lincoln is a Hybrid Tea. Hybrid Tea roses do not have as many flowers, however the flowers are larger.

I've had a couple of these for a couple years now and I'm not happy with it because it blooms very little. I have a rose that has simila...Read Morer flowers, the Drop Dead Red by Weeks, and it blooms profusely. I put my two Lincolns in a prominent spot in my garden, but they just haven't performed, so I am going to put something else in there, probably a different variety of rose, although I haven't decided on one yet.

Mr. Lincoln was the first rose I ever purchased. I was captivated by the velvety crimson roses with the full old fashoined scent. I live ...Read Morein Gold Bar WA at the time. It was planted by the steps of the front porch and didn't get any special treatment. It did pretty well for leaving it to grow on it's own. A couple of years later we were in a club called Gleaners and we had lots of sour milk. I got the idea to try boring a shovel handle size hole about a foot from the base and poured the sour milk in as we got it. Actually, by then we had a few roses so they all got some. That spring the Mr. Lincoln burst into growth and bloom! It must have been 8 feet high, lots of thick healthy branches, lots of wonderful blooms. I've thought about burying fish heads, etc, too. Haven't had the "guts" to try it , yet.

a must in all colorado gardens. let it be known this is a rose that grows magnificently in our climate. mine is 23 years old and going ...Read Moreas if it were 5 years old. love this rose and loves our hot dry beautiful climate. i do not even mulch over this beauty, it is that hardy. i have given away many many many cuttings i rooted, from hard wood no less.

Gotta love Mr. Lincoln. The flowers are superb and she's a great grower with very little black spot. She's even grown in partial shade fo...Read Morer me, but I recently put her in full sun and she is really thriving. I do admit she has a tendency to be a "one cane wonder" she's very tall but not very wide. But she's easy to care for and even though she blooms only 3-4 flowers at at time she's still a great rose. She's my husband's favorite. Very fragrant but not quite red here in the south. She tends to lean towards red violet in color. But gotta love her for her fragrance and long lasting blooms. In the vase she's one of my longest lasting roses going for at least 7 days! A great rose for South Florida!

Cannot pass by this rose without stopping to have a sniff! You can see it from far away because it is sooo big it looks like a dark red ...Read Moretop hat! I only have it for 2 years but it is finally giving me several buds at a time instead of just one. it would be great if someone would post advice on how to properly prune Mr. Lincoln to maximize budding. Mine is also a one cane wonder, and no new canes have popped out yet.

This is a spectacular rose. Sometimes he surprises me in the greenhouse by blooming early. I know it is blooming the second I open the gr...Read Moreeenhouse door by the wonderful scent. As soon as the weather begins to warm, I take Mr. Lincoln outside where he sits proudly by the greenhouse door. Frequently he surprises me by blooming again later in our "summer". Susan(in Alaska)

This plant was a gift I planted in a 3 foot pot. Once established, it is amazingly hardy! Here in Dallas, Texas, it blooms from new canes...Read More more frequently I cut the stems as the buds are just opening and take them inside - or the heat will fade them to purple-red in 2 days time. As a cut flower, they last remarkably well. Recutting every other day... blooms stay nearly a week.

Although the plant is not an abundant bloomer, it really makes a bold statement in great red color and rich fragrance. I really like that it makes me really look like I know what I'm doing growing roses! Thank goodness it thrives largely on it own!

I have tried several Mr. Lincoln roses over the years before giving up on them. The bush is tall and gangly, with a typical hybrid-tea f...Read Moreorm, and it never seems to get more than two or three blooms at one time.

The flower is of course gorgeous and it does have a strong fragrance. When the neighbor kid raided my roses (with permission) to impress his girl, I noticed that he took the Mr. Lincolns. But the color does not last; it fades toward purple in just a couple of days, and is not attractive in its purple form.

The biggest problem with Mr. Lincoln was always getting it through the Wisconsin winter. Even when the rose was boxed up and buried in ground, only two inches of stems at the very bottom would survive. Every Mr. Lincoln I ever had eventually succumbed to winter. For Wisconsin, I would recommend a less tender hybrid tea, e.g., Ingrid Bergmann.

Another one of my all-time favorite roses. A deep beautiful red bloom. This rose will continue to perform year after year without probl...Read Moreems. I always clip the rose off when it is just about ready to open. Can't go wrong with Mr. Lincoln in your garden.

I am not a rosarian by any stretch of the imagination...but I love to garden and I really love this rose - I don't get many blooms but t...Read Morehe few I do are magnificent. The scent...that beautiful rose scent that reminds me of when I was a child...happier halcyon days gone by. I have it planted right outside my kitchen window...so I can watch it bloom and have that wonderful scent come right into the house. I do need to spray it to get black spot under control but it's worth the effort.

I loved reading the comments here...brought a knowing smile to my face as I read each and every one.

I am absolutely crazy about Mr. Lincoln's fragrance. It just takes one bloom on a bush to carry its beautiful scent 8' to 15' away. The f...Read Moreragrance just wafts into the breeze. I have to wait until Mr. Lincoln blooms before the bees will come to my garden.

The blooms are huge (can be as large as 6" across), the fragrance is unbelievable! However Mr. Lincoln needs to be fed with my Gardenville Sea Tea-- at the rose forum he is notorious for being that "one-cane wonder" but thanks to the Sea Tea I never! have this problem with my Lincolns- they have lots of multiple canes and they are very tall as well!

I fondly call my Lincolns, my Spartan 300 warriors. They will beat any rose in terms of fragrance. It just takes those few select blooms to outperform a multitude of roses....(I am a scent hound and will go to all the local nurseries and gardens to sniff out each rose). And the rich color of its petals especially in the early spring and autumn are so wonderful, a deep velvety red...

mr. lincoln and i have had some problems in the past. I noticed he was about to die. I figured out he was not to comfortable with the ...Read Morelocation, so I moved him to a sunnier spot. This spot he gets at least 8hours, if not more of sun daily. So now he is better, giving off 2 new canes, also two blooms that were beautiful. Lush red blooms that are approx 5-6" in width. Strong 18-22" upright stems. Perfect for a bouquet and long lasting as a cut flower, but slight to no scent. So far no problems with mildew or b.s. winter hardy to zone 6.

monniemon

I have had this rose for going on twenty years, in pot no less!! Grows well over 6 foot every year, and blooms wonderfully! As you all k...Read Morenow, the fragrance is remarkable. This is a favorite!