I've had this rose two years now and wanted to finally leave a review after I've had some experience. This rose is just gorgeous. Sprays of thickly-petaled blooms come in regular flushes. It is vigorous--in two years I've had 6'-7' of growth. I've been trying to pillar mine but the canes are a bit thick (almost an inch on one of them) so I'm just sort of growing it up an obelisk and letting it do its thing. Mine shoots up canes regularly and fast. In two years I have a fully climbing Red Eden here in Portland, Oregon.
There was zero fragrance on this one until today (late July, 2022). Several flushes of gorgeous blooms since it was planted, but not an ounce of fragrance. And I was disappointed. Now we have had several days of hot weather and humid, warm nights and it is so intensely fragrant--I was stunned. It smells like gorgeous old rose--and it's not subtle. It seems like with any rose, it takes maturity, plant size, and the right weather conditions and you will get the wonderful fragrance.
The plant itself is also extremely pretty. Dark, glossy foliage that has vivid red new growth and purplish stems. Just stunning to look at. I've had almost no disease whatsoever. When others were covered in powdery mildew and blackspot, this had it on one or two leaves--right next to the diseased ones. That's pretty impressive. In our extremely wet spring this year some of the blooms did ball. But just some.
Mine is in full sun. The blooms are mostly red, but they have that carmine color to it so I would not describe it as a true red like you'd see in Firefighter Rose or Alec's Red--it's a bit brighter. So yes, it can appear to be pinker/magenta, but it is clearly a red rose by any standard. Some days it looks like a deep blood red and other days it leans more magenta. No complaints on it here.
Excellent rose. Big thumbs up. And a very healthy specimen from Heirloom too. Thank you!