Rose photo courtesy of Usami

open bloom, it is not button eyed like many of the forever line are.

Uploaded 29 MAR 23

Rose photo courtesy of Usami

Another really beautiful trait is the greyed out undersides of the leaves. I wish I had a better quality picture. This rose appears to be unable to set hips. I have observed a couple "to be" hips in the past, a very few do get a little plump with time but when dissected there's nothing viable inside. The vast majority of the time though the receptacles simply blacken and shrivel from the pedicel up, often staying attached to the plant for a noticeable while.

Uploaded 27 DEC 23

Rose photo courtesy of Usami

'Brown Sugar', which is more commonly sold as a bouquet rose is a surprisingly great garden plant. Glossy, dark foliage, stout canes. Wonderful bloom colour. Unmatched, really. Unlike a lot of other russets that will come up a gnarly fluorescent orange with unfavorable weather, Brown Sugar is much more consistently smokey, deep, and rusty. Fair health. Good vigor. Blooms are not fussy and don't come up all gnarly and distorted like many other florist varieties would outside of a carefully controlled greenhouse. Should absolutely be popularized in gardens.

Uploaded 9 JAN 23

Rose photo courtesy of Usami

the stems were too thin to hold the relatively large blooms on this plant. they had an airy rythm to them. few thorns.

Uploaded 29 MAR 23