Climber, Hybrid Kordesii Rose 'William Baffin'

I've not known this one to be a climber as someone here posted. It grows in an upright arching habit - definitely plan on growing it like...Read More a tree, but with a support of some type at the time it's initially planted (a backdrop trellis). Blooms are hot pink, not orange.

Mine grows successfully in zone 5b with just a few suckers that I cut back each spring. I have mine growing against a fence with a wrought iron trellis support behind it. It grows large, and would be a nice specimen at the corner of someone's yard due to its overall size and arching habit.

No winter dieback for me. I do cover the crown with a mound of soil in the winter but that's it. Profuse blooms right now, end of June early July, and sporadic blooms thereafter. This one is a stunner, but requires some upkeep in terms of trimming and shaping.

Third year, the rose bush, with the assistance of garden twine to a trellis, grows to about 10 feet in height. Friends have one of these next to their home, and yes, it is LARGE. Make room for this one. Well worth it, minimal winter care, as long as you don't mind pruning for shape and size. Very thorny.

What a beauty.

William Baffin: the rosebush that ate New York.

This rose is a beast. It grows like a weed and suckers from the roots. I...Read Moret overwhelms even weeds. I had it growing next to an arbor; it was pulling the arbor over. After a few years the stems get too thick to cut with a lopper without great effort. Two years ago I pruned out about two-thirds of the bush; by the end of summer you couldn't tell I had, and it was overwhelming everything around it again. It seems 100% winter-proof, even here in NE Wisconsin where winter temperatures typically bottom out around 20 or 25 degrees below zero.

It is absolutely covered with pink blooms at the end of June. After that it reblooms regularly on new wood. Fertilizer increases the rebloom, but also its tendency to devour the neighborhood.

If you don't mind the way it eats up its neighborhood, this is a great shrub rose to plant: disease resistant, totally winter-hardy, vigorous grower, very floriferous. I wish it would be fragrant, but it isn't; with hundreds of blooms open at once, it would perfume the whole neighborhood. Other than that flaw, I don't think you can go wrong with this rose; but keep those loppers ready and sharp!

Developed by Agriculture Canada (Svejda); Explorer series rose.

We have had great luck with this William Baffin. It's first few years we cut it back each spring, but this year we only pruned dead wood ...Read Moreand it seems to have loved that. A wonderful pink bloom, we have few or no suckers. It is on the south side of a dark building where it does get some wind when it is from the west. We are in tough zone 4.

Super hardy rose. It has suckered for me and it is surrounded by stone. Usually two to three suckers a year. It doesn't get much sun a...Read Morend it still blooms in late June and early July. I have not had any rebloom to date.

Very hardy with no winter die back here in zone 4b.
It covers itself completely in late June and early July with loads of dark p...Read Moreink blossoms. Although said to repeat, it never has for me. It looks great on a trellis. It has grown to about 8 feet in the 6 years I had it and has not suckered at all for me. I have noticed that some specimens are of lighter pink than mine.

Carefree plant. Lots of bloom, lots of dark orange hips. Grows fast, easy to propagate. Be sure to have lots of room for this plant, it g...Read Moreets big quick. Suckers freely. It is supposed to be a climber, but in my experience the cane are too thick and sturdy to train as a climber.

Bred in Canada. Won the Classic Shrub Rose award from six different societies from 1999-2001, and the Shrub award from the Monocacy Rose ...Read MoreSociety in 2000 and from Grosse Pointe Rose Society in 1999.

Parentage: seedling of rosa kordesii