Thank you everyone! I know these took awhile to type up but I really do appreciate the feedback! Nanadoll, glad someone is growing Ascot! Definitely will have to give mine some more space than planned as I have it against the house where it stays quite warm. Also, Do you grow your Golden Celebration on a trellis or self standing? Seil, you are the reason I have ordered Angel Face. The photos of yours are just wonderful! You say yours is very hardy, thus can I expect little cane dieback? The space I have it planned for gets quite windy. Secondly, I will definitely need to find a new place for Memorial Day if it gets 6-8 feet so I am glad you mentioned it. Also, I was under the impression that Cherry Parfait and Fire & Ice are the same rose (HMF has the names linked I believe). Are the two you mention very different? I currently have Fire & Ice ordered and I see Regan lists them seperately. Odd. Thank you for the tip of Dublin Bay! I might plant a low one in front of it to cover the bottom. Kate, Regarding my list, I am sure I will be on here complaining after spring planting but the catalogs kept on coming! Thankfully I started digging holes in the fall and got through some, now just need to watch the dogs out in the yard with the snow cover so they don't accidently fall in! Thank you for the thorn tip on Elina, will need to stick her in the back so I can prune things in front without getting stuck. Also glad you mentioned WS2000 - I definitely did not have it planned for a 6ft wide spot! Doodles, I tried to stagger all of my deliveries (I have ordered from Palatine, Regan, DA, Chamblees, RVR, Heirloom, and RU) and pretty much don't plan on sleeping, eating, or bathing until I am done (although if this goes like my 2013 resolution, I am in trouble..). You and I both have a lot of work to do! Michael, I was way off for Tess. I assumed the HMF listing of 3'-8' would mean it would be closer to 3' in my zone so it definitely gets moved! Thank you! I was spacing 36" on average so most of these plans should work Lsst, when you say C.Marlowe has a delicate look does that mean you would suggest moving it toward the front of a bed to enjoy it versus further back? I had it spaced further back since the flower color is so "pow!" Thank you again everyone!

Hi! I live in NWFL (8b) an hour east of Pensacola and I grow only own root roses because I don't want to deal with rootstock growing and having to prune it off. I'm pretty new to roses so I only had mine for a full year and they are going into their second spring. I bought all Austins except for 1 Eden. Not sure if there are nematodes this far north since I am like 50miles from Alabama. I guess I'll find out the hard way! But I do amend the soil per HR's instructions and I add a banana peel to the bottom of the planting hole if I have one. My soil is sandy in some areas and loamy in others. Also I want to have a no spray garden but if I do see a TON of blackspot or aphids I will spray. I want to try the cornmeal or baking soda trick I've seen on gardenweb to control those issues since I like cheap and organic gardening. Of those I got last year: INGENIOUS MR. FAIRCHILD: the first year it was in a spot that recieved 4-5 hours of sun (E side of house) and it grew thin, thorny spindly canes and didn't bloom at all. So this spring I moved it to the NE side of my yard and it gets a TON of sun @least 6-8 hours and so far it's looking good after the transplant with new canes and leaves within a two week period after the move. No blackspot in both locations! Hopefully it will bloom! JAMES GALWAY: I love love love this rose! I planted him E side of my house next to a brick column near my porch. I'm trying to grow him as a climber or pillar and he's doing great! He got a lot of good sun and the breeze was good there! He got afternoon shade from my house. He's also planted right next to a sprinkler. He bloomed so well his first year! And no black spot all growing season except for after winter which I removed those leaves and he grew new ones fast! Not sure if this year I should remove leaves to prepare for winter. He responds so good to pruning and is covered with like 7 buds. He had one octopus cane last year that I didn't prune the tip so I don't see a bud and I tied it horizontal the other day to try to produce canes off it so we'll see if that works. The flowers smelled faintly last year if you get your nose in the bloom and inhale but it was a good smell. Really pretty apricot pink or medium pink blooms. It was my favorite last year! HERITAGE: I have 3 of these in my front garden near my house (E side). I need to do some rearranging because i want to move 2 of them in an 18inch triangle to make one big bush. They get 4-5 hours of morning sun. They bloomed very well! Smelled really good! But I found out the blooms shatter quick if you cut them for the vase. So I plan on just letting them stay on the bush. Pretty light pink blooms. They did BS a little during the end of growing season and a lot in winter so this spring I took off like all the leaves. Bounced back fast after that and pruning it with really heathy leaves and is budding now! EDEN: I am growing as a climber on the W side of my house against a tall brick wall. It's still short though. About 1.5feet. About 6-7 hours of sun. There's a garden web post about hook anchors with galvanized wire in the brick and her climbing roses were gorgeous like that!! This rose is my second favorite in my garden! BS's a little where it is because my house is on a pond and it's humid in the backyard, but it's not enough to spray. I just pick the infected leaves off. Loves fertilizer and has a bunch of buds forming. Also had a really thick cane shoot up this year! The buds are so big on some of the thin canes they are almost touching the ground. I should probably tie those up. Planted near a sprinkler and does good there. OF MY NEW ONES I bought this year (recieved 2 weeks ago!) and planted in a garden bed I got the pleasure of filling since the previous owners of the house had nothing in it except for some boxwoods: GOLDEN CELEBRATION: planted in partial sun. Looks green and no BS yet. Heard mixed reviews on the BS issue so we'll see. CROCUS ROSE: planted in partial sun. Heard nothing but good things. So hopefully it will be good. MOLINEUX: in at least 6 hours of sun. With shade halfway in between the day. Really straight up growth from what I see from the nursery. It's kinda stiff and weird looking compared to the other roses I've bought so it's new to me. Heard a lot of good things so I have high hopes this works out. LICHFIELD ANGEL: planted in 6-8 hours of sun. Thin canes from the nursery plant so I hope it gets stronger canes. I want to plant an older Austin, SYMPHONY rose when HR has it ready to sell next year. also, I have two lady banks yellow roses on my backyard fence that are a year old. They are not in an ideal location for them, about 5-6 hours of sun and the rest shade or dappled sun. I hope when it gets bigger and climbs the fence it will get better sun to bloom. It BSed a little but it's in a not ideal spot, 10 feet from a pond so that's my fault. I plan to leave it be and see if it survives since I hear they are pretty tough... Well I hope that helps and I'm curious to see how your own roots do! Good luck!

Playboy, Hot Cocoa, Oklahoma and Lavaglut are gone from my garden. When I started having vole problems I took the opportunity to dig them up and give them to a friend. Golden Celebration and Night Owl both have been terrible with BS, despite several early-season sprayings with Bayer. They're really too big to move so they remain. But only until I get ahold of the vole problem. (Guess I'm kinda letting the voles have them, sigh!) The roses I kept are mostly in pots, and I believe I can grow them all no-spray once the BS magnets are gone. I'm really happy with the health of Sunshine Daydream, Tamora, Prairie Harvest, Lions Rose, the Fairy, Darlow's Enigma, Blush Noisette, Vanity, Mystic Beauty, Belinda's Dream, and Easter Basket. I'll also keep Lyda Rose and Lavender Dream; they do occasionally shed a lot of leaves but always recover. I ordered mostly Kordes roses this year which I plan to grow in pots: Savannah, Eliza, Pink Enchantment, Peach Drift, Dark Desire. Sure hope they're healthy!

Title: "Performance of Landscape Roses Grown with Minimal Input in the North-central, Central, and South-central United States" See: http://horttech.ashspublications.org/content/27/5/718.abstract