Perdita
We purchased this rose as a potted plant at the beginning of the growing season in 1998. The description on the tag, under a most beautiful picture of a flower was for apricot blush blooms from a plant that grows to five feet tall.
Unfortunately, anything that could happen to a plant has happened to this one in the garden. Garden pests have destroyed all the buds the plant had when it first started growing. It's a magnet for blackspot, one of the two most affected plants in the rose garden. The buds attract aphids by the thousands. Sprays helped, but we had a very very rainy spring which washed off any thing you used the next day.
On top of that, several large tree branches fell off in a storm, and with the three rows of tightly packed plants guess which one was the only one to be damaged? Perdita.
In June it started showing some positive signs of growth again, so I have not given up on this one yet. Indeed, the fact it isn't dead yet gives some indication to it's strength. By the beginning of July there were quite a few buds on it, they opened into beautiful cream colored blooms with a very sweet candy scent.
The plant grew to 22" tall and 23" wide, but it's had so much stress that numbers are probably not indicative of what the plant is capable of doing.
Once it started flowering in Mid July it was a steady producer of flowers all season, with 29 flowers by the first week of September.
The following year it was struggling to make it back, but started producing flowers again. Unfortunately, it didn't make it through the 1999-2000 winter (it took a very bad toll on the roses), and I gave up on this one for this season.