Planted a month ago and already blooming with many large deep red flowers with a slight purple tinge. The flowers are great for cut flowers due to long stems and an incredibly long vase life. This rose is a stunner.
A wonderful friend recommended this rose and my first year it quickly became my favorite in my garden (i have over 20 roses bushes). I keep bragging on this rose as it gave me many blooms all summer long. I am in Zone 4 (almost zone 3) very cold climate and when the snow started to fall this rose had multiple blooms remaining. Cant wait to see this on it's 2nd year. Trust me, you will not go wrong with this rose--beautiful.
Hardy and tough...nice green lush foliage and cheerful cherry-red dbl rose blossoms. And.. it does have a light, fresh, sweet fragrance. Polonaise is much better than any Knockout rose, .. and I have grown both.
Polonaise is a really beautiful rose, but it struggled with mildew last summer and this spring. Mildew is not usually a problem in my garden. That being said, the flowers are beautiful. I just wish it bloomed more often. The shrub itself has a very nice shape and is generally healthy.