Ha! Did a search and realized my questions were already answered. :) You all are the best! http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/4391431/any-updates-on-madame-anisette?n=20

Thanks, Chris for your kind words. I am a Chris as well. Anyway, Lemon Fizz was one of the roses several years ago our Extension site was trialing for Earth Kind designation for Texas A & M. I remember many of the Master Gardeners liking that rose. The Extension’s Demo rose garden has Poseidon & it is a big rose situated on one of the corner inner berms. Everyone loves its color & fragrance. I didn’t want a big rose in my own garden, so I went with Plum Perfect, another fragrant lavender Kordes rose. I do agree with Chris about the canes of MA being not as pliable to go around an obelisk. I have an open 3 sided obelisk and I put a clematis called ‘Betty Corning’ in the center of it. It has pale blue/white bell shaped flowers, is disease resistant & in my garden it dies to the ground & re-emerges every spring to grace the 3 poles on the interior. At the Extension’s garden it is paired with a climber called Jasmina, another Kordes rose. There it reaches the top of that arbor every year. We lightly prune it in that particular garden area & it doesn’t die to the ground like at my home. In case anyone is wondering, both gardens mentioned are mulched with wood chips/cedar mulch is for my rose garden.

Try writing Pat Henry at Roses Unlimited -- she had MA listed earlier. I do understand your concerns @ this rose. I too tried Summer Romance. Both SR and MA display what I call "Over-ploidy" problems. That's my made-up word for plants that have been bred to be triploids or tetraploids, and sometimes the genes just seem to "lump" together. The slow-to-establish growth pattern seems to be a part of this too. However, your conditions in Texas will be much different than mine -- someone here on Houzz is growing MA in California with outstanding results -- other than having a lot of height (I wish!).

I went camping for a few days and what a response I've come back to! 😁 I'll try to respond to folks, bit by bit. I'm so glad to hear others are having a good experience with MA too. I have seen the forum posts here showing that she's not a great repeater in some climates. @BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14) and @dianela7analabama I would say MA has been giving me continuous flushes since June. The first canes to bloom were the ones I trained horizontally, that grew tall laterals loaded with blooms. Now what's blooming are the vertical canes. The photos in this post are from Sunday. The canes that are flushing now were growing and setting buds during the first flush. It will be interesting to see what happens as summer progresses.... Including during this week's heatwave. Upper 90s all week and the next three days at 100. Nothing at all where I used to live in southern Arizona, but that was a dry heat.... And we had coolers or AC there! I think though, my plants may put up with it better than me! I like Fun in the Sun a lot and got it due to your recommendation Ben. As Ryan experienced this year, I discovered that it balls horribly in cool rainy weather, and even though it stopped raining a month ago, I'm still getting buds that aren't opening properly because they were damaged during development in all the May/June rain. But...it sets so many buds that I'm still enjoying a few. And it's much more compact than MA. I hope that I get a nice second flush from FITS before the cool wet fall weather sets in.