Hybrid Tea Rose 'Secret'

I had a Secret rose for several years. The rose is pretty and does have a strong fragrance, but in my experience it is too winter-tender...Read More for NE Wisconsin. Even when buried in ground, only the very bottom inch or so of one stem or the other would survive the winter. This meant that it would start each year well behind the other roses, and it never caught up. I got very few blooms from my Secret rose, so I finally gave up on it one spring when once again it was all but dead after the winter.

I rate it as neutral instead of negative because I was able to get it through the winter, but only barely. I think there are many other hybrid teas that are better for our cold climate up here on the "frozen tundra" (20 miles east of Green Bay).

This exquisitely fragrant rose {Secret} grows in my garden in Bradenton, Florida.

I wish to buy more of them.
<...Read Morebr /> Who sells them?

This rose is very healthy and low-upkeep in my area, although it'll get pretty tall if left unpruned for long. That said, if you're one w...Read Moreho loves fragrant roses, find one of these and give it a sniff. Different people smell different things in roses, but to my nose it's one of the most intensely sweet cultivars there is, almost like honeysuckle.

A tall, strong, free bloomer, fairly disease resistant in an area known for fungus. Wonderful cut flower, quite fragrant. A focal point plant.