As always healthy own root rose. This fella withstood brutal sun and heat and kept on trucking. Best blooms when it cooled down some here in zone 8B Central Texas. Huge beautiful red fragrant flowers. A must have for your rose garden.

Several weeks went by without the kind of activity I had hoped for and expected, quite frankly, after potting my Alec's Red. I was beginning to wonder if I had potted an essentially dead plant. Then, a few weeks ago, one magnificent bloom, then another, then four blooms all displaying at once. This is a fantastic rose! To think I planted it in the middle of a 100-degree heat wave here in a high and dry, southwestern desert climate!

In its first full year after planting last fall, our Alec's Red is covered with blooms again and again, each set of blooms lasting over a week on the bush. Well worth the investment!

I have about a dozen Heirloom roses and Alec’s Red is my most vigorous and well-performing rose of all of them (so far), hands down.

My roses started out in containers in my apartment and then were transplanted in the ground at my house (amended clay soil, which didn’t work out), and then back to containers again. Alec’s Red seemed unaffected by all of that and still grew to be my largest bush, with strong canes and constant growth and blooming. It grew beautifully the 3 years it was in the ground, and bounced back quickly after the trauma of transplanting as if nothing had happened (my other roses have taken more time to re-grow acclimate to containers again, but are definitely happier than in the ground.)

The blooms are huge, and petals almost a fluorescent red— the color is so bright it almost looks neon. The smell is also fantastic (I only buy fragrant roses!).

I live in humid Ohio with crappy clay soil and this baby has survived it all like a champ! Very little issues with black spot. Not one of my roses that needs TLC, and I greatly appreciate that!