This noisette rose produces a magnificent flush of blooms late in spring and can rebloom later, but the subsequent flushes in my garden are meager enough to be inconsequential and disappointing. The rose is extremely easy to grow and can survive with no care at all. The largest of my Madame Alfred bushes grew by accident after a wheelbarrow of pruning debris tipped over in a corner of my garden and I failed to pick up every twig afterward. The bush is shade tolerant and drought resistant.

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Noted by Antique Rose Emporium:
"Though classed as a Noisette, the full blooms of this rose are more of a Bourbon or Hybrid Tea in shape. The flowers are intensely fragrant, cupped, and double opening the palest of pinks, then cooling to creamy white. Vigorous to about 20 feet and easy to work with, "Madame Alfred" will create a vertical focal point in any garden. Its nearly thornless canes make it a very easy rose to train. We have had flowers from it in January, when it was the only plant in the garden to bear a bloom."

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Antique climbing rose. The very perfumed flowers keep growing continuously from spring to beginning of winter. Flowers aren't very longlasting (even cut).
A super resistant rose that grows quickly and requires very little care (if you don't have enough space, you will need to cut branches from time to time).

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