I'm going to have to add Sonia to my list of Surprises.... bought her from Home Depot last year, left her in a pot for about 2 weeks before I got her in the ground, didn't water her hardly at all, she croaked almost 100% to the ground from this winter (she's all the way to the front of the yard where the wind is wicked...
and she's my largest rose right now. She's bigger than the new ones that I've bought this year, her follage is glossy, she has a couple of fat blossom buds already...