If you live in Canada, PNW, you can get Chandos Beauty (CB) from Brad Jalbert at Select Roses in Langley. I just picked up 2 that I preordered in 2023. They look super healthy. Select Roses does not deliver but it is well worth the trip to pick up roses there. Pre orders for CB will begin again in August selectroses.ca

A Floribunda that behaves like a tea with one bloom per stem! Very trouble free. A show stopper. A very worthwhile rose to grow.

Thorny.

exceptionally vigorous in my PNW garden but I disliked the colour. I would try it again if I knew how to bring out the orange. Mine was cool coloured.

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.