You know, it's one of the Hybrid Teas that I find particularly beautiful in the garden.

Jeri

I think Blue Girl might fit that description for me. In the spring her lavendar blooms are rather pretty. But they really shrink up in the heat during summer, and her repeat isn't all that good. But what a heavenly lemony / fruity sweet fragrance she has. Worth having for that reason (and the lavendar color doesn't hurt).

Good grief! You like the name, you like the color, you like the bloom size, you LOVE the fragrance AND it's healthy! What more do you want? You are one hard to please rosarian, lol!

The Doctor needed a doctor in my garden...I couldn't get it to grow! Finally moved it down to the "infirmary" at the novitiate building, and fra. Simeon and Fr. Ambrose got it up and around. Pretty rose.

Thanks Aimee, for a lovely pic of the Doctor rose. It looks pretty good with bright pink (my favorite color). The truly boring ones are the white roses - but I got 2 due to their intense scents:

1) Mary Magdalene - the bush is beautiful to make up for the boring beige flower. It likes my alkaline soil. The scent is mystical: better than frankincense, better than myrrh incense in the Catholic church. It's totally magical and cozy as it wafts into my window.

2) Bolero - this one has dark green leaves, goregous shape as a bush. It looks like a shiny "Mercedes" car! The scent is like an expensive perfume. It does well in alkaline clay soil.

That would be Secret Garden Musk Climber. Not many fragrances "waft" on the West Coast due to our lack of warm humid conditions. This one can, at times, waft.

The flowers, individually, are boring, white, single and not big. When it blooms en masse it is a great plant, visually, but it doens't do that but once a year. But it does continually throw off a spray or two, and the fragrance is intoxicating PURE strong clove -- unlike any other rose fragrance I have come across. I first encountered a bloom of it in a fragrance class at a rose show once, stuck my nose in it and bought the rose the next time I came across it, specifically for that fragrance.

Probably the hands down winner is MIRANDY. It really has no real aesthetic value as a "looker" outside of the color maybe but the fragrance is arguably the best I smelled out of all the 400+ other roses at the Columbus Park of Roses. The blooms nod like an older tea would, but it grows fairly well as a hybrid tea. When mature, the fragrance is about enough to knock you over and it still has that deep and warm scent to it. http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.162558

It's about the only rose I grow because of sheer fragrance. A possible other one is Double Delight, but it's a nice looking rose too even though I mostly grow OGR and Austins.

Stawberryhill - you find Bolero boring?! I planted it in the fall and am getting my first blooms now. The center pedals are a haunting light pink with very white outer pedals. I find it incredibly beautiful.

kstrong - You have me hopping up and down in anticipation for the first flush on my young SGMC, it put out a couple little blooms last year but it was too young for potent fragrance. For years I've been dreaming about having a clove scented garden, so far I have SGMC and a Clove Currant and I'm looking to add some Dianthus this year.

I guess my addition to the list could be Sunsprite, I got it because it's touted as a 'fragrant yellow' and it certainly is - occasionally if the conditions are just right the scent will waft across my garden. But the blooms are a pretty average yellow color and if they last for a day you're lucky. So it's a rose I keep around for the fragrance, but the flowers don't have very much 'wow factor' other than that.

Yes I was going to say SGMC as well. I keep it for the fragrance. It photographs well, but in the garden it is "meh".

Hi harmonyp: You probably have the Hybrid tea Bolero instead of the pure white floribunda Bolero. The hybrid tea Bolero has the pink shading.

AH - I didn't know there were two. Very interesting.

The Hybrid Musk 'Felicia' might be more visually attractive if she did better in my garden, but she always looks like she's struggling. Shrub, medium pink normal blooms, but that SCENT: old rose that floats on the air. I would definitely ditch 'Felicia' if she had no fragrance. She's one of the best-smelling roses I know.

peachymomo - if you can grow wallflowers.......clove abundant. They are supposedly grown as biennials but are, in fact, perfectly good perennials. Easy from seed sown anytime soon and a great spring scent blast.

I'm curious about Secret Garden Musk Climber... how would it do in partial shade? Now mannerly a climber is it? (ie is it a monster?)

The Doctor is growing on me the longer I have it. I'm glad I ended up keeping it. It's growing a fair amount this year and has a lot of buds on it right now... and like you said, Jeri, it's lovely IN the garden. I think the blooms by themselves are a bit boring (I really like high petal count roses typically)... but it really is charming in the garden and I look forward to what it looks like when it gets a bit older.

Here's another more open shot of "The Doctor" bloom on the bush.
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