On rating this rose I had to rate its bloom frequency as good for the following reasons. Although it blooms only in the Spring (in the Pacific Northwest from the very last of May to the last of June), the waves of blooms through that period are simply magnificent. It is not uncommon to have hundreds of blooms in an average year regardless of the wet weather and, easily, in a drier, warmer Spring, perhaps closer to a thousand over the month of blooming. A really great old rose, that demands respect with its thorny habit, often mistakenly called a "cabbage rose" by older visitors, even though it is not generally considered by the experts to be a Centifolia. Although the stems are usually short, a single cut rose will perfume an entire room. Consequently, a bouquet of this rose will overwhelm anyone entering the room with its fragrance. If you have the room (grows well along a tall fence) and the determination to fight its vigor and thorns, it will reward you with glorious landslides of saucer sized, highy fragrant blooms. Its enormous month long bloom makes up for its single Spring bloom.