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Easter basket is my favorite floribunda at this time. This rose has everything going for it; great plant with appropriate vigor, lovely color which ages elegantly, prolific bloom production, large bloom size (up to 4 1/2 inches in our climate), nice clusters suitable for exhibition, long lasting blooms, excellent remontancy, and above average disease resistance. Makes a suberb tree rose.

Star is selling it again this year, after not for a few years. I snapped one up immediately. This is a blockbuster rose at the gardens I have visited, and it seem weather-proof, too.

In 2010, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden gave this cultivar the highest performance rating of any repeat-flowering rose in their collection. They do not use fungicides.