gemini_sage said:I've had Sunsprite/Freisia for a couple of years now and "meh.." is right- it's performance has been underwhelming. It hasn't shown very good winter hardiness either.
Winter hardiness is something I don't need to consider (yet, possibly when moving to Victoria as it's a bit colder there but even then I don't think it's a major concern) so can't comment on that.
It's an older rose (bred in 1973) so it may reflect the times a bit (?), I mean I've heard rose fragrance was largely bred out in pursuit of other things so maybe it just had significant fragrance (compared to others at the time) but now it's just not especially remarkable. It seems to be upsold a lot (at least here) when looking at fragrants, but that may be due to yellow and fragrant not being common and no ones come out with anything better yet (although that would be surprising given the amount of room for improvement and it being 40+ years).
I don't hate it, I just don't think it really excels when compared to other modern types...but I can't really find a better fragrant yellow either (I only look at whats being sold in Australia, so no idea what's happening else where). It'd be pretty quickly displaced if an improvement turned up I imagine.
