I'm in Zone ? 50 miles North of San Francisco, think zone 13, Sunset.
Sunsprite AND Double Delight are fragrant here.Double Delight I can smell a
100 feet away if wind blowing right ! A little heat makes em go nuts, Lot's
o water and not over 90 for too long.
"Radika Kesavan" wrote in message
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Kirra wrote:
"Radika Kesavan" wrote in message

Sunsprite *is* fragrant, ....
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I agree with Radika that Sunsprite is fragrant. It was the first rose I
bought before I knew anything about roses and I bought it because of the
fragrance. You know, the rose that smells so nice that you just have to
keep
putting it up to your nose so that you can smell it yet again

An added bonus is that I find my two, I like it so much I bought
another, do
not get any black spot despite living in a humid climate, overhead
watering
three times a week and living next to Double Delight who does get black
spot.

Kirra
Brisbane, Australia
Z10

Very interesting, Kirra, that the Sunsprite available to you in Brisbane
carries fragrant blossoms.

I am sort of guessing that there are two verions of Sunsprite being
offered in the U. S., one fragrant and the other not, based on all
realiable rose people at different places in the U. S. reoporting two
sets of experiences.

Believe it or not, the same seems to be true of the experience of
finding fragrance in the other rose you mentioned - Double Delight.
Roughly equal number of people in an unscientific survey across the U.
S. seem to think that this rose is heavily fragrant and not at all
fragrant.

It is also interesting to hear about the lack of blackspot on Sunsprite
in your garden. Brisbane has a sub-tropical climate, does it not?

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Radika
California
USDA 9 / Sunset 15