This may be the oldest rose in my garden. If I recall correctly, I moved it from our rental house in 1995 when we moved to this house. It has very little disease resistance and gets black spot terribly every year and loses most of its leaves. Somehow, though, it throws off a few brilliant red flowers every year. They are such a sumptuous color and fine shape that I’ve kept the rose around despite its shortcomings.
Europeana is planted under the giant climbers Alister Stella Gray and Dr. Huey next to the Jeff Tangen arbor. It isn’t an ideal position except that I get an excellent view of the flowers when I walk through the arbor.
My future plans are to feed the plant more attentively and keep the bigger roses at bay so it has room to grow.