It is not always my "favorite" but if I had to cast a vote for BEST ROSE, Sunsprite would be the vote! In 6a it is strongly fragrant, our bed of 10 in the front yard perfumes the air to the mail box down the drive, and better, it is HARDY and HEALTHY, gets blackspot rarely in our hot, wet summers and winter 07-08 Columbus had record snow and the plants, mulched, were buried and stayed green to the very smallest tip! Always reliable, well received but the praise always stops short of mentioning to this DAY there are few really vigorous, hardy yellows out there, let alone fragrant. And it is nearly 40 years old! It also loves to set seed: have used it repeatedly as a mother when hybridizing, best result was with SHOWBIZ as a father, got a fragrant, glossy-leaved, thorny fawn-beige blushing magenta, ruffle petaled Floribunda. Then I left for college and let that amazing seedling die! An amazing rose.

Sunsprite/KORFriesia has no scent in my zone 10a garden, which gets plenty of sun except for in May & June. The other yellow rose I have, 'Scent from Above', also is supposedly scented,but gives me nothing. My pinks, Yves Piaget, Perfume Delight, Zepherine Drouhin, Pink Peace & Madames Calvat and Dubost all do well scentwise, especially the Yves Piaget. So does my 'Lavender Morn', as well as my reds Oklahoma & Chrysler Imperial. Any ideas out there?