This variety was almost lost---seems to have come down to just a few eyes on a fading plant that had been gifted from one noted grower to another and finally the material procured right as the curtain was falling. This variety is the "holy grail" of another collector friend. And with this/these back stories and having been allowed access to this variety the moment it was "rescued" it is tough for me to review it as I am going to review it: It CAN be stunning. The buds are long and tapered and the reverse is stark white with the petal anywhere from hot lipstick pink to earthy pink-terracotta and all sorts of cream, white, vanilla swirled in. The plant is healthy. The plant grows very tall and upright, a column. Blooms are large for the stem. And this is where the GOOD fades away because this was released in 1971 and its immediate peers are AQUARIUS AND FIRST PRIZE and the 1960 PINK PARFAIT is also in the coloration tribe. All are creamy dreamy blends of pink, vanilla, almost but not quite mauve (I am pretty certain nobody who is now growing Sunrise-Sunset is finding coffee, violet, fawn or for that matter, unicorn horn in the blossoms although it was alleged 50 years ago these were "common" colors). THE IMMEDIATE PEERS are not just better roses, they are VASTLY better roses. Sunrise-Suunset defines sluggish. We are talking FLORIDA here and mine started blooming in late February and I have 2 and between them I have had maybe 5 blossoms. 5 blooms between 2 plants in 6 months. Many of mine will repeat within 4 weeks. Angel Face and Orangeade and Candy Apple can turn it around in 3. The plant just seems unenthusiastic and uncooperative and most gardens just do not have a place for a variety like this especially when there are peers available that are so similar and so wanting to be grown. I get to type this from a lucky position: I have this rare rose. But as fickle and unfair as the rose marketing can be, for every GREAT rose like Candy Apple which fell through the cracks, many honestly deserve to have been abandoned. They are our friends, our memories, our passion. Emotion runs high. I will never NOT love Hocus Pocus and Cherry-Vanilla but I will never grow them again. Like Sunrise-Sunset.