I love this rose too. I am looking to add another one to the garden. But I must warn you that he is rather tender and will die back to the ground in your winter. Please make sure that you bury his graft a couple of inches below soil level. I will do the same for my new one if I get another this year. I am not sure if my current one will make it as his canes have all died to the graft which is at soil level.

I am crazy for this rose! Blooms are big and full of petals, so lush and delicately colored. Just gorgeous and I love the scent, smells like rosewater and lemon. It is big though, some canes shot up over 6ft so I am trying to figure out how to prune it so I can have the flowers at eye level 🤣 It’s been in my garden three years in full sun and bloomed well and long into the fall, blooms in Oct here in N East. This spring I fertilized it early with rosetone and mulched it and got so many flowers.

Swiss Rose Garden nursery in WA have Bionic Beauty in stock according to their site, and I think they still mail order. Melvilles, who originally released it in 2007, don't, but their blurb says that if they have bud wood of any roses, they will custom bud. All on Fort. of course. Mine is a great survivor...the dog walked over it and flattened it; I moved it and forgot about it for a couple of years. Last year when I was weeding, I found this little stick with a big pale pink scented flower, and discovered it was BB. It has really responded to TLC...still small, but that is because I don't disbud it as I should...it keeps putting out flowers. I think I got mine on sale from Flower Power when they closed down here. Swanes is like Swiss cheese...full of holes, Corporate is a dog's breakfast at present, considering rose buying season is coming up, and I refuse to sign up to Knights just to browse, never had to before. I usually get my roses from Treloars, Mistydowns, and Thomas for Roses in Sth Aust. Sometimes I have found rarer roses at Reliable, or take a trip up to Silkies at Clonbinane. Another place I love is Spring Park roses at Eganstown (outside Daylesford). Nice garden to visit and a great range of perennials. Melodye

Thank you Pat and Jim. Pat, I think you would love it! If anyone could get it to bloom, you could, your roses are so prolific. I really do think there is something about the spot I planted mine that has prevented it from blooming more, since Firefighter is in the same bed, and has had similar issues, but they are both improving. Come to think of it, I've been wondering about my Pope John Paul II, which is in that bed too, and blooms okay, but is kind of a runt compared to the ones I've seen in pictures, I love it too, but also wish it was more vigorous.