To be fair, I only recently acquired Evelyn, roughly a month ago, so I don't have a full growing season to go on, but this rose has been interesting. At all the stages of color that I have seen the roses have been fragrant.
These two pictures were the roses that opened right after I planted the bush. I'm calling them the whitish stage. I'm not sure if these are characteristic of Evelyn for end of August/beginning of September in Missouri, but here were the first two blooms I saw. I wasn't exactly impressed by them.
The next two pictures were about a week or so after the first two. I guess you can call this the apricot stage? Or I am going to, at least compared to the first two pictures and the next. At this point I'm enjoying this rose more.
I'm calling this the pink phase. This opened up yesterday and doesn't appear to have much apricot to it. When I saw it my first thought was to compare it to my experience that Abraham Darby goes into a pink phase sometimes as well. Maybe the pink phase is just part of something that apricot roses do?
Overall, I am going to say that I believe this rose is going to become one of my favorites. Time will tell.
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