Hi Megan, You might find Amy Padgett's website on her roses useful there (link attached). She lives in Eastern NC, zone 8, and you might well have good experiences in Eastern SC with some of the same roses she likes in her no-spray yard. Specifically, she highly recommends both Souvenir de la Malmaison and Old Blush as favorite roses that are especially easy to grow and good for beginners. Not that you're a beginner, but that ought to be yet another clue that a rose will do well without a lot of fussing over it and spraying. Your list has so many roses that I either have or want that perhaps some that I happen to like might also appeal to you: General Gallieni. Needs room. Lovely fragrance to the attractive red blooms with lighter reverse sides. Can take a bit of shade, like many other teas. Grows horizontally like a rambler the first year, but then grows upwards. Evergreen. General Schablikine. Lovely blooms on an attractive plant that doesn't get as large as many teas do. Blooms that are good for cutting start early and continue into the early winter. Evergreen. Moonlight, the hybrid musk. Nice flowers, good for cutting, flexible stems. It held onto its leaves all winter, in a colder than average winter, and is doing great/blooming now. Very shade tolerant. It was evergreen here in zone 7. Ghislaine de Feligonde. If you have the space for it, this is a worry-free rose that's also shade tolerant. I especially like the looks of its foliage; it reminds me slightly of fern foliage. Our new one (planted last fall) hasn't quite opened its buds yet but it's absolutely covered in buds. Very bushy, but also can be used as a short climber. Evergreen. Crepuscle. We just got this one but everything I can find out about it for NC/SC (and plenty of other warm areas besides) is very positive for use as a short climber for a no-spray yard. Some shade tolerance. Amazone. We just got this one too. It was found in Bermuda, where there is plenty of humidity, so it should do well in NC/SC. If you read Help Me Find on this one, and you'll want to order it. It's pretty vigorous here thus far. Some shade tolerance. Spice. Also found in Bermuda, and new here too. Lion's Fairy Tale. We are taking a chance on this one for no-spray. It's new this spring, but once it came it bowled me over with the beauty of its huge blooms; I'm glad to be taking the chance on it. The plant will stay relatively small and can fit nicely into the front of a large planting. Gruss An Aachen. Our three did extremely well even in an amount of direct sunlight that's less than ideal. They love to bloom from early to late in the season, and the blooms are luscious. Others in other areas of the east coast report problems with disease. Ours did get a little powdery mildew a few times but hosing it down a few times worked just fine. No very noticeable blackspot problems. Ours came from Chamblees and I don't know whether their particular cultivar is any different from others, but we were thrilled with those roses (until they got Rose Rosette Disease so we had to toss them). We are going to replace them with more Gruss An Aachens. Good shade tolerance. Not quite evergreen in zone 7. Westside Road Cream Tea. This is a tea rose found in California that grows slowly and doesn't get large. There are lots of uses for small tea roses, so I hope our new plants do well. They came as bands and are still tiny, tiny, tiny at this moment. Rise 'n' Shine. New here. A heavy bloomer that's a good yellow fading to light yellow; the entire effect is quite attractive. Rose Rosette. A tiny pure pink rose that looks perfect in every way. (Imagine a tiny version of your Belinda's Dream.) Good for cutting long-lasting blooms. David Austin's Mortimer Sackler. No-spray here, though we've had to replace them due to RRD. A delicately beautiful pink rose with some fragrance. Can be used as a short climber and it seems a natural for that kind of use; the canes are extremely flexible. Mostly evergreen in zone 7. Red Cascade. We haven't tried this miniature climber/rambler by Ralph Moore, but I'd like to one of these days if I could find a sunny enough place for it. It looks wonderful to me, though I don't know whether anyone in the Carolinas has tried it. Anyway, Antique Rose Emporium sells it. Best wishes, Mary Here is a link that might be useful: Amy Padgett's roses in eastern NC

***They are now telling me that they can't match up with Home Depot blinds. When I ordered them, they said that the bright white is the exact same color as snow white at home depot. Now they are giving me a different story.*** IMO, this doesn't make sense. I can understand them saying they can't match Home Depot colors that aren't Hunter Douglas, but Hunter Douglas colors should be the same across the board. Color codes may be different, but the actual name shouldn't change. I would call again (you may get someone more helpful the second time) and explain that you were told by one of their salespeople that the bright white is the exact same color as snow white at home depot. If they still don't cooperate I'd just live with the blinds or paint the trim a softer color. As patches mentioned, once they're up you may never notice the difference. I never noticed my white blinds didn't match my trim in the MB until I ordered blinds for another room and started comparing whites!

Such wonderful stories (except for the gas one)! Thanks for sharing! The first New Years after my Mom passed away we were having dinner at a local restaurant. A woman who would have been about the same age as my Mom came in and sat down, by herself and ordered dinner. I felt sad for her thinking here she is alone on New Years and here I was missing my Mom like crazy and was wishing she could have there with been with us. I thought since I couldn't buy my Mom a Christmas present that year that we would buy this lady's dinner, which we did. We paid the bill while she was still eating, and left quickly so she couldn't see who paid. Flash ahead 6 months. We are at a community event having dinner with friends and an elderly woman comes running out of nowhere and says to my dh, "There you are, I've been looking all over town for you. You thought you could get away with what you did, didn't you!!!!!" We were like "huh?" Then she asked why we bought her dinner on New Years Eve. By then people were looking and listening. (She waas pretty loud) I asked her how she knew it was us and she said that she made the waitress describe us. lol. DH rides a scooter and has snow white hair, so she had been looking for this man for months and finally saw him at this community event. We had completely forgotten about the dinner thing. Well, she thanked and thanked us (it was embarrassing, really) but she was so surprised that someone would do that. She asked us if we thought she was poor. lol She said she wasn't through with us yet! Flash ahead another 6 months. A couple of days before Christmas and we're having a dandy blizzard. The door bell rings and that WOMAN is at the door her hair all white from the snow. She brought us some of her homemade jam and cookies. I asked her how she found out where we lived and she just laughed and said that nothing gets by her! We still laugh about that. We just wanted to do a little something anonymously and we get a stalker! lol I've met her daughter who said that she told everyone about the dinner and that's how she found out where we lived. Apparently she has quite the network! lol! BJ

One thing to keep in mind about 'Edgar Degas' not being available until 2018 is that if its patent began when it was introduced in 1997 -- and it lasts 20 years -- that may be why Linda won't be making it available until then, since she can't begin to propagate it without paying royalties until 2017. I don't have much to add, since all the nurseries I've used have been mentioned. I will say that I do have them ranked in terms of whom I ask first when seeking particular roses: Long Ago Roses and Burlington Roses get asked first, because of high quality and very reasonable prices. If they don't have what I want, then I check Rose Petals Nursery or Angel Gardens. These two are also top-notch, but cost including shipping is a bit higher, though not much. These two also tend to specialize in what grows well for them in Florida, so don't expect much in the way of once-blooming old Europeans, though there are a few tucked in. For those cold-hardy oldies, I check High Country Roses. They also have a few hard-to-find species. If there's still something I can't find, I check Rogue Valley Roses or Roses Unlimited. RVR has an amazing selection, but their bands are at the higher end of the spectrum. Also expect about 10% or so to come mislabeled, but my experience is that 1) it's usually nearby alphabetically, so you sometimes end up with something you didn't know you wanted, and 2) if you do need a replacement, emailing some pics and calling the office will get the mistake corrected. RU also has a great selection, but they lean more toward the moderns than does RVR. But they also send hefty 1gal plants. This also means shipping is a bit more if you're not on the east coast, but it's not that bad since I'm in NJ. If I need something with faster impact, I go with RU. If I don't mind nursing something along, I go with RVR. I haven't mentioned Heirloom because I haven't ordered from them since the company changed hands. I will say that they're going more in the direction of modern roses, and the few remaining oldies I can easily find elsewhere. So it's not that I ever had a problem with their roses -- it's just that there isn't as much that they have which catches my eye. But I wouldn't hesitate to order from them should that change. :-) ~Christopher