How funny! Thank you for your lovely post. I think I am going to feel the same way when Safrano matures. Buff

Oh you should have seen my baby this spring. Talk about covered with flowers.....and it's not even that large. It was the only rose blooming. Even the chinas hadn't started blooming yet.

Now he's starting again.....I can't wait.

It's a great cutting rose. Unfortunately this is one that I lost to RRD and need to replace.

Safrano is a survivor as well. Mine was poorly planted and for two years grew an inch. Then I transplanted it and shortly thereafter it was stepped on (not by me) and broken off nearly to the ground. This year, tiny as it is, it has already given me a precious flower.

It's a lovely rose and a tough one. I agree about the colors, delicate washes of strawberry and peach tints on silky petals, and the most beautiful wine red and dark green foliage. It does much better in full sun for me than in part shade, where it gets some mildew. My plant on the Rose Road has spread wide and low, and I'm hoping that this year it will start to go up and become splendidly large. Here it is in early May:

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Well, it doesn't show how beautiful it is, but perhaps you get an idea. WONDERFUL rose.

Melissa

Buff, you can add me to the list of Safrano fans. It was one of my first teas along with its sister Isabella Sprunt and I love them both dearly. Not the biggest blooms but the colors are awesome, remind me of pearls. The two were slower to get established in my garden but now are over 6 feet tall and healthy as a horse, disease free too.

Safrano is our favorite of the first ones we planted at our first house. There is now a spot waiting for it at our new one. Ours would shoot up to about 10' in the spring and sink back down to 8' over the summer. Pretty buds, pretty opening, even nice full blown. The only rose we had worth going out to look at those days when it was 97, with a dew point over 70 and a smog alert, though it, like others, blows quickly in such conditions.

Mike

Okay, I need this rose. Gean

Melissa, can I come live with you? What a gorgeous view!

Hmmm, after reading this, I feel my Safrano was not Safrano because I got a blackspot magnet and shovel pruned it. You know, it is not okay to sell mislabeled roses and excuse it as "accidents happen"...mad all over again.

Beautiful pictures Melissa. Safrano and Lady Hillingdon are two yellows that are on my short list. I have heard so many wonderful things about them.

My Safrano is just going into its second bloom (first one started in Feb), here in coastal No CA. It is growing in more than partial shade, under a giant old oak tree. I love it - it is disease free, and so graceful. I inherited it with our house 20 years ago, and didn't know what it was until an old rose expert told me.
If you like this color of gentle buff/yellow, you should also try the old tea "Anna Olivier" (rare but available from Vintage Gardens). It is the same color (except when the weather occasionally makes it more yellow or more pink), with red brick on the back of the petals. More gracefull bud and bloom shape, if you can imagine. Can get very large here, but you can always keep it in bounds by pruning, as its growth is slow enough to keep up with.

Patricia,
Come pay us a visit! We do have nice views. Also lots of up- and downhill; I'm always so impressed when I see photos of people's gardens on flat ground.
Melissa