<p>I bought this rose as a budded maiden in Spring 2005. It took off vigorously and continues to grow that way still today.  The bush has been extremely healthy from any disease, and I do spray about every 2-3 weeks. The blooms are so extremely large and many petaled that the blooms tend to nod somewhat. They are a very delicate creamy ivory color with just a hint of pink on the edges especially toward the center, but alas have virtually no scent to them. This bush was winter hardy with no protection to speak of in my zone 5b garden its' first winter. It experienced very little cane die-back and broke dormancy vigorously in March/April. It isn't the most heavily foliaged rose, but is not too bad either.</p>
<p>In my opinion, this really should be a hybrid tea because the blooms are as large and larger than the biggest floribunda blooms and are very often much bigger than many hybrid tea/grandiflora blooms. Also, I have only had one cluster on this plant and it was a 3 flower one that was the bush's very first blooms. Since then it has only produced single flowers. It is probably a good exhibition rose for those who show. As for a garden rose I would recommend it easily, just wishing it were more fragrant and would bloom a bit more especially in the summer. This rose is at it's best in the Fall of the year when temps cool down and it displays it's attractive color and wonderful flower form.</p>
UPDATE SPRING 2011--Now having grown this rose for six years I still feel that it should be classified as a HT instead of a floribunda rose. IT seems the flower production alternates every year. Last year the flower production was very light the entire year, so this year it will probably be heavy again with big 5" blooms of gorgeous light yellow/cream with just that hint of pinkish tone to them on the very edges of the center petals. They really are gorgeous blooms at all stages but especially at exhibition stage. I did get a few more clusters over the last couple of years. Three I think, and all were three rose clusters that were very pretty and lasted a very long time. The stems continue to be very long and somewhat thorny to work on come pruning time. Whenever I have visitors to the garden and this rose is in bloom it always draws a few aaahhhs and ooohhhs from the group admiring the beautiful blooms. The plant still continues to be quite disease resisitant and overwinters well with little winter damage to any of the canes. Come late Summer, I prune about 1/3 of the plant back and that always draws out a wonderful Fall flush of many blooms that are quite large and the most beautiful of the year. Last year was it's slow to bloom year, so this year it will pick up speed and vigor, challenging the HT roses for sheer loveliness. I am glad to have had Pasadena Star all these years and would still reccomend it to anyone starting a new garden or looking to add some more beautiful large roses to their existing beds.
John