JTO will always have a place in my PNW garden. Mine is a flower pumper (in flushes) in warm and hot weather. Blooms are fewer in cool weather. I have never had to worry about disease or pests when situated carefully and pruned aggressively to let breezes through it. I no longer spray my roses but my JTOs grow vigorously nonetheless. I lost one in an unusually cold winter.

One member here used the word "intoxicating" to describe the fragrance and I would agree. It does not have a sophisticated fragrance, in my opinion, but it startles and delights noses with a scent that is powerful and tropical. My friends always ask me to cut blooms for them, and I do, but I warn that they do not last long in the vase. That fragrance is really something!

I find the whole plant attractive in bloom and there are usually enough strong coloured blooms to disguise the fading ones —these pale a bit too quickly and hang on. I agree that the colour starts off "glowing" and fades to pale pink. The plants are clothed generously in greenery and it grows LARGE thorns on the old canes.