Quite a few of my seedlings resulting from open pollination of the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose have inherited her tendency to grow rather tall. For example, my seedling that was born (the sprout surfaced above the soil) on March 19, 2009 is now 5 years and 4 months old, and it stands a full 8 feet tall. Today I stacked and stitched together 2 photos in order to get the entire rose in one frame, as shown below.
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| Photo taken: July 19, 2014 |
Below on the left is a cluster of semi-double blooms that were half way up the rose bush, but are somewhat hidden in the full-length photo above. And below to the right is a photo of this rose's very first bloom, which fully opened on June 1, 2009.
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| Photo taken: July 19, 2014 |
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| Photo taken: June 1, 2009 |
