Radika said:
My 'Sunsprite' is of the non fragrant persuasion.
Interesting. Very interesting. Did you get your Sunsprite from Edmunds,
by any chance? You might check out the Sunsprite from Ashdown
I got mine bare root in a bag from one of those no name Texas
rosegrowers.
I am beginning to wonder if there are certain clone lines that have
sported to a version that is not fragrant.
This is what I am wondering too.
My 'Double Delight' on the other hand, is extremely fragrant ...
This DD fragrance/non-fragrance divide seemed to have a geographic
distribution the last time I looked. It was clearly: west of the
Rockies, it is fragrant and east of the Rockies, it is not.
So do you think that it could be a humidity thing? Smelly when dry?
It is one of only 5 or so roses that I grow that I
can predictably have people smell and know that they will not be
disappointed.
What are the other four in your garden?
Number one would have to be 'Frederic Mistral'. Always killer. I
hereby require you to get this one, Radika..... g (and anyone else
who is listening...... just go get one)
'The Prince'
'La Ville de Bruxelles' (any Damask for that matter)
'Sonia Rykiel'
'Purple Passion'
Out here (in just our garden), such roses that all who smell them
identify as fragrant would be:
Tradescant
Sometimes very fragrant, sometimes not at all
Gertrude Jekyll
Sometimes very fragrant, mostly slightly to moderately fragrant
Don Juan
Fragrant 1/2 the time
Tamora
Fragrant 1/4 the time
Florence Delattre
Fragrant when it blooms, which is not that often.
... and some others that I am sure I am forgetting right now because all
I see is the wintry landscape ...
Others that are fragrant more often than not for me:
'Mirandy'
'Fragrant Cloud'
'Sweet Surrender'
'Sutter's Gold'
'Summer Fashion'
'Abraham Darby'
'Graham Thomas'
'Barbra Streisand'
'Fragrant Apricot'
Just got Fragrant Cloud this year, and I know this will be one of those
by and by. This is one that you think fragrant too, right?
Sometimes you want to glue it to your nose, other times, nothing. Go
figure.
Bob Bauer
Zone 6 in Salt Lake City
http://www.rose-roses.com/