Sunny I love my Dee-lish! It's hardy here, seems like it always has blooms, and is healthy. The scent is awesome, I bought this at the nursery mostly because of fragrance, but the flowers are gorgeous too. They last as cut flowers as well. This rose and Mother of Pearl have done so well here that I'm going to scope out other Meilland roses.

In my garden my first year Dee-lish (Line Renaud) does have a nice citrusy fragrance in the morning, but no stronger than most of my roses. It is not as strong as Munstead Wood, Princess Charlene de Monaco, Alnwick Castle, Abraham Darby. It has no fragrance in the afternoon but this is same with almost all of my roses (except Alnwick Castle). It has typical HT growth habit. Color is dark coral. Flower form is nothing special and flowers in clusters, more a grandiflora than a HT. I'm not terribly excited about this rose, but not anything really wrong with it either.

strawchicago grows this rose no-spray and has many nice comments about it over on the Organic Rose forum. She says it is VERY fragrant for her and her pics are beautiful. She also gardens in Chicago, so perhaps this rose does better in a colder, more humid clime.

My Dee-Lish is root hardy, though not cane hardy, and I think it's three years old on its own roots. It does fine as a plant though it's small and not well bushed out. I get a couple of blooms a year but not as much as Dingo and Strawchicago talk about for their plant. I suspect it's a rose that prefers to be grafted, if that's the case for the other zone 5 folks that were more enthusiastic.

Cynthia

Got mine from Unlimited last spring. It's healthy, beautiful, very good rebloom and wonderful fragrant. Love it.

I dug up my Dee-Lish and put it in a pot this year, since it wasn't working for me color and form-wise in my garden. I have to say, that it is looking mighty good this year. First flowers just opening.

Not a lot of fragrance yet, but last year in the ground it did. Flowers look a lot like an English rose, but the plant form is much more HT.

It's looking so good I may have to put it back into the ground in the main garden and overlook the dumb name.

I got one new this year because of the report of good health. The fragrance is intoxicating, although so far the flower form has not impressed me. However, if its healthy and fragrant, its a keeper for me. I do like the color too.

I just planted this too, in spite of the name (hahaha noseometer)

Over 90 degrees here today and 7% humidity, but this is what it looks like this afternoon. Lusciously fragrant.

Great to see DL blooms again, noseometer! This one was a big surprise last year. It was so heathy and the fragrance was incredible. Mine is still recovering from the long winter but is growing well.

Roses,

My baby Dee-Lish was planted about 3 weeks ago, a gallon from RU, gotten in the middle of winter, and kept in my fruit cellar in total darkness at about 38°F.

It didn't drop a leaf. When put in the ground it already had some nice growth that it came with, but no flower buds to be seen. Right now it has two pea sized buds developing along. I remain greatly encouraged about Dee-Lish, going by the critiques of Dingo and Farmer Duck, describing its attributes in an earlier post of mine enquiring on its height.

I have the highest hopes for D-L, and will keep you posted on its progress.

Moses

noseometer, you said something about overlooking Dee-lish's dumb name. It has many other names if you would prefer choosing one of those:

Alive
• Elbflorenz
• Forget-Me-Not
• Inclus
• Line Renaud ®
• MEIclusif
• Sweet Parfum de Provence
• Tchekhov®
• The Anniversary Rose

Really, someone names a rose "Alive"?? Being in zone 5, I'd love to rename all my HTs "Alive" if they'd just live up to that name after the winter. With my luck though, it would jinx them all and the entire bed would die in sympathy.

I'm resigned to the Dee-Lish because a) Forget me not would make me wish it were blue, b) Sweet Parfum de Provence is too long (but the best of the names), c) Tchekhov would get mixed up in my head with Tchaikovski and The Anniversary Rose with Our Anniversary, d) Elbflorenz sounds like it should be "Geld" or yellow, and the rest don't mean anything meaningful to me.

Of course the real reason is I already wrote the rose tag and I'm too lazy and cheap to change it. Can't be worse than Golden Showers or funnier than Happy Butt.

Cynthia

I like Line Renaud (the French actress), and I like Tchekhov. But it is most commonly called Dee-lish here, and that's what people know, so I think I'm stuck.

RosesMI,

My Dee-Lish is in full bloom now, wow! 5 buds, three fully open, and what a beauty.

The bloom color of mine at this time is a deep, dark coral, like Fragrant Cloud, but darker, and very bright. I would call its color rich madder, more red than pink.

It's at the back of my rose bed and only 16" tall, so to smell it I have to cut a bloom...which I cannot bring myself to do just yet, it being so young.

I think I hit a bullseye with getting Dee-Lish!

Moses

It smells very berry-like, almost an edible smell, which is unusual for a rose.

I was just admiring my Dee-lish this morning in the vase. The first few blooms it gave were rather boring, low in petal count and somewhat ugly. However in its second flush the blooms have been much better. The color is very unusual, almost like a deep dusty rose, or deep coral, but cooler, its somewhat hard to describe. Today the ones I had in the vase opened all the way and showed off some very pretty stamens. I hope its as disease resistant as everyone says because she's really starting to grow on me.

I'd love to get this rose for next year!! :)

Carol

Carol,

I don't think you could go wrong with Dee-Lish. Its ADR designation should make it an unlikely black spotter. It's too soon to report on BS on my Dee-Lish, and I do spray, but I plan to test DL and pass over it when spraying its neighbors to see what happens.

It could be quite winter hardy, obviously irrelevant for you since you container grow your roses, but for me it's critical.

You know, I am finding ADR roses for the most part are about as BS proof as the Knock Outs, but winter hardiness is very variable from variety to variety. I believe the test gardens in Germany on average range between zone 6 and 7, and the roses tested, again I only suspect this, could be grafted, so winter hardiness could be partially attributable to being grafted also, not just based upon on the scion's winter hardy attributes. Grown own root, the ADR winners could be less winter hardy. This point, I need to further investigate.

My Earth Angel is a wonder: no blackspot, no winter kill without any protection, great flowers and scent.

My Pink Enchantment, black spot free, dies to the ground WITH winter protection. Could it not die back over winter in Germany's warmer zone test gardens, but dies back big time in my colder zone garden?

Both Earth Angel and Pink Enchantment are ADR winners.

Questions, question....that's part of the challenge and draw of growing roses.

Moses

Nice, noseometer!

I was able to cut my first Dee-Lish bloom of the season this week and was reminded how much I love the scent! I think you would love it, Carol.

Moses - it's nice to experiment. I've written down in a book which roses I've potted in my new "soil." Then I'll compare, etc. I've also written down from where I've gotten the roses to see if that makes a difference. I'm expecting that Palantine roses will do the best. I really hope Palantine carries Dee-Lish this fall! I really want it now!! :)

Noseometer - the 2nd picture ISN'T a full flush?? Wow! Here that's a full flush!! Gorgeous!

Dave - Oh man...I've got to find this rose next spring!! :)

Carol

I agree with Carol, Noseometer - that would be a cause for celebration in these parts. Great pictures of this rose!

FWIW, I've found in zone 5 that Dee-Lish seems to be root hardy but hasn't been cane hardy in the past few winters. It regrows OK from the roots but doesn't like it overwhelmingly, and is a short bloomer on a few canes like Dick Clark. Nice blooms, but not a lot of them. We'll see if it improves with age, but it's probably going to be one of my "accent" roses with a few blooms now and then rather than the flush Noseometer showed.

Cytnahi

Thanks guys! The first flush had a few more flowers which were larger. It looks like it's going to take a break after this is done. It is a pretty rose, but you have to like that deep coral color and I'm not sure how it will fit in my garden yet. For some reason it reminds me a bit of Tropicana, but not as orange. It does have a beautiful fragrance. I'd rank it below Abraham Darby, Jude the Obscure, and at about the same par as Firefighter, and in that same genre of fragrances with fruit and lightness, and so not really comparable to, say Mister Lincoln (rich dark damask), Marie Pavie (musk), or Iceberg (honey).

noseometer - I love your descriptions about fragrance!! You really know your fragrances!! :)

Carol

I seldom buy roses on impulse....I would much rather enjoy sitting in front of the computer researching the forums or other sources before buying.....but Dee-lish was an impulse buy last summer.....I sniffed as I passed the bloom, and kept on coming back to sniff again....to me, it smelled like grapefruit! It was such a strong, sweet fragrance that it eventually found its way home with me despite my head battling with my heart. Over the winter, it died down almost to the ground in my zone 5 but is growing new shoots so we will see. Wonderful fragrance!