I have Coquette des Blanches - new this year, not on its own roots. It is now one of my top roses. Pros: most beautiful delicate pink (NOT white), gallica-type quartered bloom (looks like Duchesse de Montebello), continuous bloom all spring and so far this summer, excellent growth and vigor (but I don't know about own root), superhealthy (no sign of mildew in this very bad year for mildew in my garden), and incredible fragrance, IMO. Cons: smallish blooms, jbs prefer its light colored blooms to most other roses in my garden. To me, the cons are not a big deal. I am so impressed with this rose that I am considering getting a few more. If I could only grow one rose, CdB would be a top contender for the spot. If you are looking for a white rose, however, this one does not fit the bill. It has not been white in any weather. In fact, it's color is extremely stable and uniform. Don't know whether that's a plus or a minus in your book.

I sort of had a Rose de Rescht a couple of years ago. I lived in an apartment and so did not have a garden (in fact, I am now retired and gardening for the first time in my life). But I had a friend there who had an arrangement with the apartment house management whereby she designed and did the work on various garden spaces around the place. I have had a love of OGRs for years - that is, I went to the places where they grew and read books and sighed over pictures of them - so I asked my friend if she would like to grow one. I said I would buy it if she would grow it. She was all for it, so we picked one out from a book I had - I basically deferred to her in the choosing, as I figured that she knew what the problems were, i.e., space, growing conditions, etc. So in the end, we got Rose de Rescht. We got it from an "own-root" mail order nursery, and I must say it grew really well. It did the suckering others have mentioned the second year in the ground. I loved the blossoms, but was less happy with the shape - it was rather rigidly vertical, and most of the old roses I had seen had a more spreading, graceful shape. I see, by the way, that some of the other posters do have a more graceful look to their bushes. It also didn't seem to have much fragrance, and it's supposed to have quite a bit - although I didn't mind about that, because the allure of these old roses for me is really visual. It never seemed to get BS, or much of anything else, but of course we are in inland California, where the climate in the summer is dry and hot. I have a fond recollection of RdR, because it was such a Dream Realized for me. But if I were to get a rose now, I would not get that one. I lean more toward something like Souvenir de la Malmaison (actually, I LOVE Gloire de Dijon, but will never in my life have the scope for it).

Yes Virginia some of my once bloomers didn't bloom well. We had a fluke of a non-existant (sp?) winter this year and then a really long wet spring on top of that! We did get cold right before spring but I think it was too late and not enough. We did have a couple of really warm days this Spring and could have hurt bloom as well. Our Weather really just started getting hot besides a few scraglers ( really hot days) . Charles Didn't bloom for me either... Orpheline de Julliet bloomed as well as, Hippolyte, Willam lobb, Ispahan, Autumn Damask ( if it is right), Souviner de brod. Kazanlik, Honorine de Brabant, Mme. Louise Leveque, she's just not growing..thinking of putting her back in a pot, DlFED3, Excellence von Scubert, might not be eligible for this, reines des violettes, Ferdinand Pichard, Variegata de Bologna, Rosa Mundiand a couple of others who may not apply. All of these bloomed well. I got 1-2 blooms on Louis Gimard, La belle Sultane, apothecary's rose. I think Salet gave me one bloom as well as Belle Isis did give me one. I got no blooms on Great Maidens blush, although she is in to much shade, Henri Martin, Nuits de Young, Duchesse de Montebello,Cardinal de Richelieu, La Rubanee, Delambre, Charles de Mills. I'm praying for a winter this year, a normal one...

Carol-Thanks for another vote for the Duchesse. I'm in North Idaho in between farmland. The zone 4 roses do well but the Zone 5ers get pretty well nipped. Today the wind is mercilessly whipping the rose canes. They look like the car lot inflatable dancing balloon guys. Fortunately only one of my roses grow tall enough to greet me in the face. Mariannese has a grafted DdRohan, I may not have that option. I'm not sure where I will settle on buying one, or if I'll even be able to snatch up Duchesse PinkWonderfulness this time around; she's one of 3 that I wanted badly also, worse now ! My order for RdViolettes and DdDrReynaud are paid ahead for 2018 at Joy Creek, and I requested DPWRohan be added to my order if any came into stock. Think I'll keep checking off and on to see. She's carried at Rogue Valley and Burlington too, just in case you know anyone ? that might want to snatch one. I woke up at 12:30 AM and couldn't go back to sleep until after 4 thinking of how to make the Flower bed bigger.