Date Planted: Awakening arose as a 'sport' of the famous climbing rose New Dawn some time before 1935.
Grown at Blatna Nurseries in what was once Czechoslovakia, it was apparently forgotten during the war years and languished unknown until reintroduced into commerce in 1990. Awakening differs from its
better-known parent only in the form of its flowers. Rather than New Dawn's loose, semi-double flowers, Awakening bears very fully double, flat rosettes packed with quilled or quartered petals. In their pale
flesh color and complex form the 2 in. blooms are sometimes reminiscent of Souvenir de la Malmaison in miniature. In every other respect, Awakening is nearly identical to its parent plant, with the same fine textured, highly glossy leaves, slender, thorny canes, reliable rebloom, vigor and moderately strong and very
pleasant fruity fragrance. Awakening can easily exceed 12 ft. in height and spread - I grow it on a chain-link fence, but it would also do well on a trellis, or perhaps climbing into a small tree.
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Awakening
