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My rose garden is still pretty much in development, but growing steadily. I started growing roses three years ago, when I planted some mislabeled bagged supermarket roses in the front yard. They did well the first year, but the second year it was blackspot heaven. In spring of the second year we also built a big semicircle pergola as a support for climbing roses. These roses also did well in their first year. The third year (2003) was the the third growing season for the front yard roses and the second growing season for the pergola roses.

Spring 2003, I ordered some roses from Kordes, a german breeder who focuses on disease resistance and hardiness. I hope that choosing disease resistant roses will keep away blackspot from my garden.

My rose garden is a no-synthetic-spray garden. I started using wettable sulphur spray every two weeks in spring 2003 to combat blackspot. It seems to work. There was virtually no BS on my roses in the season of 2003. It might also be the weather, though: lots of warm days, no rains for six weeks or so in summer. I stopped spraying sulphur when it got too hot.

Rust is a problem in the summer of 2003. Maybe because of the drier and warmer climate conditions than usual. Pascali (if it truly is that variety), Kronenbourg, New Dawn, Queen Elizabeth and Duftzauber 84 are affected the most. New Dawn in my parent's garden had to be cut down because of a massive rust infection! I shovel pruned two Pascali and Kronenbourg (ugly rose!), partly because of this (and canker).

My climate:
-maritime, 'cool' summers, 'warm' winters
-lots of rain, usually

My soil:
-sandy and free draining, so dry
-acid!

I planted my new roses in spring 2003 in a mix of manure and peat, native soil, coconut fibre, bone meal, bentonite clay and lime, topped by a layer of coconut fibre and bark as mulch.

My roses:
-Aachener Dom (Pink Panther)
-Abraham Darby
-Amber Queen
-Aprikola
-Bering Renaissance
-Bonica 82
-Bouquet Parfait
-Breath of Life
-Buff Beauty
-Burgund 81 (Loving Memory)
-Colette
-Compassion
-Comtesse de Murinais
-Duftzauber 84 (Royal William)
-Elina (Peaudouce)
-Eric Tabarly (Red Eden Rose)
-toile de Hollande, Cl.
-Fellowship (Livin' Easy)
-Flora Romantica
-Gebrueder Grimm
-Gloire de Dijon
-Graham Thomas
-Flora Romantica
-Iceberg, Cl.
-Jayne Austin
-Kir Royal (Domaines de Courzon)
-Lichtknigin Lucia
-Liebeszauber (Love's Magic)
-Lovely Meidiland
-Nostalgie
-Parade
-Pascali/Virgo
-Penny Lane
-Pierre de Ronsard (Eden Rose)
-Polka
-Postillion
-Rebell
-Rosarium Uetersen
-Rosenprofessor Sieber
-Rugelda
-Sebastian Kneipp
-Sombreuil
-Souv. de Christophe Cochet
-Sunset Boulevard
-Sutter's Gold, Cl.
-Sympathie
-The Pilgrim
-Vogelpark Walsrode

Shovel pruned roses:
-Pascali/Virgo (3x, still 3 left)
-Kronenbourg (Flaming Peace)
-Peace (didn't do well next to an oak tree, DUH!)

On the list to be shovel pruned:
-Cl. Sutter's Gold: it blooms only once!
-Breath of Life: ugly plant form
-New Dawn: boy did this rust fungus mutate! it eats New Dawn alive!
-Eric Tabarly (Red Eden Rose): only in its first year but (1) it was susceptible to rust, (2) it balled even with no rain for 6 weeks and (3) there was only little fragrance