PlantFiles: Hybrid Tea Rose
Rosa 'Perfume Delight'

My first and only Rose - birthday gift from friend. Not sure where to put it in our mostly-shady yard, so put it in a huge tub with some dianthus and glads. Blooming now - only 6 weeks after planting. Smells great.

This is my favorite rose in my garden. It is by far the most prolific bloomer and the most fragrant. It blooms continuously from spring to frost. For the first time this year I had some black spot (as I did with all of my roses) due to exceptionally heavy rains in June. I stripped all of the infected leaves and within a month you couldn't tell it ever had a problem. My other roses didn't recover nearly as quickly. The buds are a deep pink, almost red, and then open to a deep rose mauve color. They are fairly long stemmed so they make good cutting roses. The only negative I have ever had with this rose is that it tends to grow in almost too much of an open position which can make it spread a bit too much and become gangly if I don't prune it correctly and relatively severely each winter.