I like it alot. Mine was in a pot for over a year. The minute I put it in the ground it took off and started blooming. Lovely color though it fades as the bloom gets older. An excellent rose. Pearlie Mae and Prairie Sunrise are apricot Bucks and are nice also. You were lucky to get this rose as a mistake!
Judith

Judith, Thanks for your opinion, That's good news. How does it do in the Texas heat?
Nancy

Hi Nancy, I'm glad you were able to ID your rose!

In my experience the blooms will fade/blow pretty quickly in full sun/high heat. (Our temps are generally mild & mine is not even in full sun.)

It is very disease resistant, no spray, and the flowers last reasonably well cut for the vase. Winter Sunset has a good fruity fragrance and HT blooms on a more shrubby plant. I grow it for these reasons. It is such a pleasure to have a nicely foliated, easy care bush.

I remember your photo from your ID thread and just wanted to reassure you that it is not a floppy spreader, it's very mannerly. Upright slightly vase shaped, maybe 4 x 2.5 here after 6 years.

For what it's worth, when I visited the Heirloom display garden, a staff person there said they felt it was Buck's best apricot- at least for our climate-which of course is much different than yours.

Dawn

Thank you Dawn. I have more spots for partial shade than full sun so it's good news that it doesn't want direct full sun.
Nancy

Winter Sunset does really well in my pretty hot and humid climate, Nancy. The blooms open a nice apricot and fade to a cream. It blooms a lot and it has a nice bush shape, as Dawn says, but taller for me. I don't spray and it has stayed bs free for its two or three years in my yard.

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Thanks for the info and the photo Duchesse. I love to see the shots in the garden and not just a close up of the bloom.
Nancy