I ordered this rose last year. Put in the ground in fall as instructed, and crossed my fingers it survived a cold snap that this area is not accustomed too. It did, and this year it produced three stunning blooms. It is establishing well, and I hope next year to have even more blooms and harvest so hips.

These are not the smallest roses in our yard but they are the most powerful scent. They open before dawn and the beautiful scent is everything perfumes struggles to duplicate. Perfect. We will be ordering more as soon as they.come in to stock. We love this place and their flower are amazing!

despite not giving her a adequate home, she pulls through giving me small beautiful blooms. Resistant to black spot too. Beautiful small blooms; never had anything like it. And I was surprised to see then she spreads sending shoots for a whole new plant. A lovely quaint rose. I'm grateful that a bought her.

Planted a pair of Apothecary Roses c. 2014, zone 8 (south Puget Sound). Bloomed great, more thorns than I like but I'm growing my own medicinal herbal ingredients so I live with it. Two years ago…about a month before bloom, the two plants were attacked by verticilium wilt and after watching them brown for a week, regretfully dug them out roots and all. Dug in a mess of soil amendments and cornmeal, left the space blank for something else, later…
meanwhile, bought all new huge containers, filled them up with organic from the baked-sterile crock at the bottom to the worm tea, coir fiber, organic cornmeal and Portland Rose Society 5-4-4 organic rose food…and then planted new apothecary roses from Heirloom. Got a few blossoms last year, this year going *gangbusters*…while over in the dug-out verticilium patch? one volunteered from a root I missed! And it's toughing it out there, like a first year small pot from Heirloom.

Whoever commented about their elbowing out was spot on; besides the resurrected one this year, there's a stalk of new growth about 3 feet away from it.

And did I mention the OMG fragrance? The first year I planted them, I got about five or six blossoms, collected the petals once open fully, and just air-dried them, then put in a closed container. And when I introduce folks to the dried aroma? it's like having attar of rose every time you open the container.

That's basically essential oil of rose to the rest of us, and it's so strong and so costly they sell essential oil or rose as rosa absoluta 5%…which is plenty strong enough. Pure essential rose oil sells at nearly $1,000/fluid ounce…