While looking for vegetables for the garden at a local florist/ nursery, we saw this plant in a container. The description promised massive eight to nine inch blooms of a golden yellow color throughout the season. Not believing the claims, but not having been let down by any Jackson and Perkins plants we've ever planted we picked it up with the vegetables.
The words on the label did not prepare us for the flowers this plant produced. The plant grew to four feet tall, giving us massive flowers on twenty two inch stems. Easily the biggest roses I've ever seen. Flowers so big that finding vases heavy enough to hold them without tipping over from a flower or two actually became a problem. No aphids, no blackspot. It produces flowers until the second week of July, then takes the entire summer off waiting for the cooler fall weather before it starts again.
It too was a victim of the 1999-2000 winter, but hopefully I'll be able to baby it back to life. It's down to one tiny cane, but it's not dead yet.