Mine is in her first year, so I don't have a lot of pics, but so far I think I'm going to be happy with her. I haven't gotten many blooms from any rose this summer thanks to the @#%^ Japanese Beetles (at least they're eating the flowers and not so much the roses).

She's definitely a more orange/apricot hued rose; 'Tupelo Honey' is more yellow-y. I want to say she hasn't bloomed as much as 'Tupelo', but don't trust my memory. I don't think she required much pruning from winter-kill and looks pretty healthy at this point; I haven't noticed any spotty leaves (yet).

I can't remember anything about fragrance, but I've only had a few blooms that were 1. high enough to smell and 2. weren't chewed to ribbons by those #@#%$@ beetles!

I have it. Very healthy, growing tall and upright, quite floriferous. The bloom has slight sense. The leaves are shiny and BIG. Don’t recall it has lots of thorns.

Alas, the blooms quickly bleach to offwhite and can turn toilet paper-ish fairly quickly.

Overall, it is a worthy one. Hardy, hassle free (if one can live with not deadheading the ugly spent blooms), but not a particular pretty one IMHO as the blooms fade fast

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You indicated you reviewed old posts - included In 1 was link to UGA’s rose trials (in case you missed it) (for SJ).

Thanks ac91. I thought it was such a pretty colour and lovely fragrance. Here with high humidity it was exceptionally fragrant. Farmerduck, I had seen your old posting and hoped you'd reply with and update. How disappointing that the blooms fade quickly. Perhaps I'd be better off getting another Star of the Republic, but I do so like diversity. (( Rifis Thank you! I did miss that one.... I was desperately trying to find something about it in the store, but decided since there were so many I'd just try posting. Do you recall the thread title?

http://ugatrial.hort.uga.edu/_ccLib/attachments/pages/Newflora+2104+Trial+Garden+Rose+Evaluation.doc

That is a very useful link for many of the Kordes. This is hard. Maybe I'll wait to see if they mark her down more. She just had the prettiest colour with warm fragrance and super vigorous growth and healthy leaves. However, I hate tissue paper flowers. It's normally not a problem as I visit most of my roses everyday with snippers, but it's nice not having to do that and this will be in a fairly public area. : ((

I've grown Sweet Jane for 3 or 4 years now. Healthy and good bloomer for me, but I don't notice any scent, and the blooms do fade quickly (and hang on with that ugly, brown tissue paper look if not deadheaded once they are spent).

Some different color variations (before fading to ugliness):

Thank you, Pat! Strange that noone else finds it fragrant, while both DH and I did. I'm now thinking I may keep it as a cut flower rose since the one "accidentally: picked from the store looks so pretty floating in a bowl and goes nicely with the interior colours. Many of my other roses do not. These flowers all showed a deeper interior colour which I always love. However, I'm still all ears on this one.

Chantal, I ended up not buying it, but still think about it and that warm honey fragrance. I hope you keep us updated on your experience.

My 'Sweet Jane' is in her third year - I can't smell anything from her, but others I gave roses to said they could. I also can't smell anything (yet) my 'Julia Child', so it's likely just me. She tried valiantly to bloom all summer, but the Japanese Beetles decimated all my roses this year. She came through the winter like a champ, only had to take off a bit at the tips. I get mostly candelabra blooms. She's growing upright and narrow for me, but 'Poseidon' is swamping everything around him (including SJ). Next spring I'll try pruning her hard, as suggested for HTs, and I'll see if she bushes out any more.