Seashell, another Jackson and Perkins rosebush, was by far and away the most producing bush in the garden. Literally hundreds of blooms were picked from this bush, sometimes six to twelve new blooms day after day.
Not long stemmed, the flowers came in groups on stems ten inches long. Each group has only one flower ready at any time, so the blooms are spaced across the entire bush. The bush grew to 65" tall, each cane was a rosebush in itself.
Each bud has two or three times the number of sucker buds as most other bushes, so keep an eye on them if you are pinching them off.
Aphids loved this bush, much more then any other rosebush in the garden, but the beetles did not touch it.
This plant started producing flowers in June, and continued into the end of October.
During it's second year much effort went into debudding the side buds, which while reducing the number of flowers resulted in a significantly taller plant with much longer stems.
