Grandiflora Rose 'Sweet Fragrance'

I found this one at a local garden center last spring (2014). It was rated hardy to Zone 5, and since the single most difficult thing in...Read More growing roses in NE Wisconsin is getting them alive through the winter, I bought one and planted it.

Then it bloomed, and the blooms were wonderful. The growth habit for me was more like a hybrid tea than a grandiflora: many single blooms on rather long stems. The rose is more attractive than photos make it look. In photos it tends to look pink or salmon-pink, and it is, but with some yellow down toward the center. It made a beautiful cut flower, although it does not last as long as I would like. And although it does not seem as fragrant as its name suggests, it does have a nice fragrance.

As seems typical with some other "Easy Elegance" roses, it does not have many thorns.

I so liked the rose that I returned to the garden center to get another; but they were sole out by that time. This spring, I plan to get two more, if they have them.

If this rose proves as hardy as it is claimed to be, it will be one of my favorite roses.

A great rose for the landscape, with more sophisticated flowers than the Knockouts, but with similar disease resistance. This does not de...Read Morefoliate here in black spot heaven when grown without fungicide treatment. One of Lim's Easy Elegance™ series.

This is a terrific rose---vigorous, prolific in its bloom, and highly resistant to black spot. It repeats continuously. The flowers are large (4") and hybrid-tea-like and the color(s) rich and beautiful.

Classified as a grandiflora. The habit is stiffly upright like a grandiflora.

However, despite the name, it has only moderate fragrance.

Hybrid tea-shaped buds in tropical tints of coral and orange with a deep yellow base that swirl open to full, apricot blossoms. Each bloo...Read Morem matures to salmon-pink adding interest with the range of color.
Advertised as fragrant, but to my nose it is lightly fragrant if I stick my face in it.
Disease Resistant