Easy Elegance® Sweet Fragrance Bare Root Rose Bush

About Easy Elegance® Sweet Fragrance Bare Root Rose Bush

Rosa ‘BAInce’ — Easy Elegance® Sweet Fragrance PP19,969
Type: Grandiflora | Hardiness: Zones 5–9

🍑 Coral buds, apricot blooms, a salmon-pink finish, and a deliciously sweet perfume—Sweet Fragrance is a rose for all the senses.

Sweet Fragrance combines the elegant flower form of a Hybrid Tea with the easier garden performance of an Easy Elegance® rose. Its pointed buds begin in tropical shades of coral and orange with a deep-yellow base, swirling open into full, sweetly fragrant apricot flowers. As the blooms mature, they gradually take on beautiful salmon-pink tones, so several colors can appear on the plant at once.

The large, 3–4-inch flowers contain approximately 35 petals and are held on sturdy, upright stems that make this variety especially good for cutting. Sweet Fragrance is an everblooming rose, producing new flowers throughout the season on a vigorous, disease-resistant plant.

🌸 Flower & Garden Details

Color: Coral-orange buds opening apricot and maturing to salmon pink
Bloom: Full, Hybrid Tea-style flowers, approximately 3–4 inches
Petal Count: Approximately 35
Fragrance: Sweet and noticeable
Flowering: Everblooming throughout the season
Habit: Vigorous and upright with strong flowering stems
Size: Approximately 2–4 feet tall × 2–3 feet wide
Light: Full sun
Hardiness: USDA Zones 5–9
Disease Resistance: Outstanding
Best Uses: Cutting gardens, fragrance gardens, mixed borders, walkways and specimen plantings

🍑 A Rose That Changes With Every Bloom

Part of Sweet Fragrance's charm is its shifting color. The coral-orange buds open into warm apricot flowers before gradually developing salmon-pink tones. When several stages are blooming together, the shrub takes on a beautiful blend of warm tropical colors rather than reading as one flat shade.

And then there's the fragrance. Easy Elegance® specifically highlights Sweet Fragrance as one of the collection's fragrant varieties, making it especially lovely planted near a patio, walkway or entrance where its perfume can actually be enjoyed.

✂️ Made for Cutting

Sweet Fragrance is particularly well suited to the cutting garden. Its flowers are held on strong, upright stems, combining the look of a traditional Hybrid Tea with a more compact shrub habit. Those apricot-to-salmon flowers are beautiful in arrangements, and the fragrance gives you another reason to bring them indoors.

💛 Why Grace Rose Farm Loves It

Sweet Fragrance gives us three things we always want more of: color, perfume, and roses for the vase.

We love watching the flowers transition from coral and orange to apricot and finally salmon pink. Add 35 petals, strong cutting stems, repeat bloom, and that sweet fragrance, and this little shrub delivers a surprising amount of traditional rose romance.

It also earned Best Hybrid Tea honors from the Portland Rose Society in both 2008 and 2009—proof that an easy-care rose can still produce seriously beautiful flowers.

🌿 Growing & Care

Plant Sweet Fragrance in full sun and moist, well-drained soil. Its compact 2–4-foot habit makes it especially useful near patios, pathways and entrances—places where you'll actually be able to enjoy the fragrance.

Once established, Easy Elegance® recommends very little pruning beyond removing dead, damaged or crossing stems in early spring. A balanced, slow-release fertilizer can be applied when new leafy growth begins in spring.