No but I'm reading "Antique Roses for the South" and McClinton Tea is a favorite pick. Although it says it is 6-8' which is pretty big.
Nancy

General Schablikine is beautiful but not small:-).

I grow McClinton Tea. It's still 4 feet tall, but it's as wide as most Teas, about 7 feet after 3.5 years in the ground. I fully expect it it to hoist itself up and get taller. The bloom form isn't fabulous, but it blooms alot. Don't remember fragrance. Little blackspot here, so I'm no judge of that.

I grow Cels Multiflora, and have seen it several places (including Vintage Gardens and the cemetery). It's less wide than many teas, but in my garden, where it's essentially unpruned for height, it's a good five feet tall, maybe more. The one in the cemetery is smaller, but it's in a very exposed spot which didn't get much water for many years. We don't deal much with blackspot, so I can't comment on it - but I can say that this rose is susceptible to powdery mildew. It is the first and last rose in my garden to bloom. It hangs onto its faded blooms, which get a dirty-tissue look to them. I don't mind snapping off the old blooms. I know someone who tends another public garden (Fairytale Town here in Sacramento) who likes having white flowers on plants for evening events. He considers the tendency to hold onto the faded flowers a plus, because at night you really don't notice that the flowers are brown at the edges!

By the way, Vintage rates this as quite fragrant, but I only get a faint to moderate tea scent.

I've seen an unpruned La Sylphide in our curator's garden, and it's pretty big - at least six feet tall and probably seven feet wide. Beautiful, too. I think it's quite floriferous, too. Roses get so huge here that I probably shouldn't even offer an opinion.
Anita

I have several of these roses but all are young and so can't comment on size, except to say that so far Enchantress is the smallest. I also have Westside Road Cream Tea and agree with luxrosa that it's really wonderful and I wouldn't be without it. I think Cels Multiflora has darling flowers and it, like, WRCT, blooms a lot. Madame Melanie Willermoz has pretty flowers but the bush so far isn't growing much. I had McClinton Tea and really disliked the flowers and agree with the poster who described them as "looking like scrambled eggs". I can't imagine this being a small rose since even the young plant was quite rangy and wide-spreading. I can't comment on disease resistance since none of my teas have disease, but my climate is very dry.

Ingrid

gardenatlanta, I have these three:

Enchantress (or Enchanter)
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Blooms: small, magenta; they seemed to ball a lot the first year
Foliage: exceptionally well foliated - very bushy, typical tea leaves but on the small side, very pretty
Thorns: haven't noticed, can't see the canes for the leaves
Bloom frequency: last summer (it's first) it seemed almost constantly in bloom
Fragrance: don't know, too low to the ground
Disease resistance: excellent
SIZE: rather small - one year old and about 2' tall and 3-1/2' wide but very healthy

General Schablikine
Almost a year in the ground here
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Blooms: kind of irregularly shaped, kind of untypical but I like them, shades of brick red & pink
Foliage: well foliated, fairly tall but twiggy not vase-shaped but mine's a year & a half old so has some maturing to do, leaves can get this alligator rippled pattern in them, not on all leaves
Thorns: typical for a tea, not huge, not a lot
Bloom frequency: blooms in cycles probably 6 weeks apart approximately
Fragrance: probably light tea
Disease resistance: excellent, old leaves get a few spots and some yellow and drop off
SIZE: probably medium - about 4-1/2' tall and 4-1/2' wide now but not yet filled out in all directions

La Sylphide
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Blooms: pink with a sheerness to them; in heat they lighten to pale pink; nodding; very delicate and feminine in character
Foliage: normal
Thorns: typical
Bloom frequency: not sure, not a heavy bloomer in its first year
Fragrance: don't know
Disease resistance: very good
SIZE: on the small side - about 3' tall and 3' wide at 1-1/2 yrs old

Sherry

Sherry, what a wonderful presentation! I'm awed by your Enchantress, which has outperformed mine tremendously. I had just a very few blooms in the first year and your bush is so much more vigorous than mine. I love your La Sylphide. I'm going to be expecting mega pictures of your garden this spring!

Ingrid

Sherry, thanks for posting the lovely photos. I too purchased Enchantress last November. I got her at the Antique Rose Emporium. When I purchased her, none of her flowers were balled. Then I planted her and she had a second flush before the really cold weather set in. This round of flowers formed during cool weather and were absolutely huge, but unfortunately most balled. I am hoping that with warmer weather and smaller flowers the balling stops. For me, her flower color is similar to Maggie. Her foliage is very thick and very healthy.
While at the Antique Rose Emporium, I was quite taken with General Schablikine. I was able to detect more fragrance than I can with most teas - I remember it as having some sweetness to it.
La Sylphide was also new to me last fall, but unfortunately only produced one pale flower before winter. Yours is quite beautiful, Sherry. I hope mine does as well this year.
Like Luxrosa, Madame Antoine Mari is a favorite of mine. She blooms quite regularly and is smaller than the Monsieur Tillier and and Gilbert Nabonnand near her.
Kathy

Thank you very much for all your commments.

Sherry, your pictures are great. Thanks for sharing them and for giving some good detailed information about the roses you grow.

Cemeteryrose, I WANT you to post and tell about your experience. I'd rather think the rose is going to 9X9 and get 8X8 than hear 5X5 and get 8X8. I know your growing season is longer than ours but it still gets very hot here in the summer and winters (this one excluded) are usually pretty short. I do think over time, the roses in Atlanta will get larger than most websites say.

Luxrosa and Kat, I got Mme. Antoine Mari just last week. I have high expectations for her.

Ingrid, I got Westside Rd. Cream Tea a few weeks ago largely based on good comments I've heard and that she is supposed to stay rather small. I'm hoping.

Mashamcl - thanks for the information on the general. He's going to have to move off my list for now. I just don't have any room for another big tea. Glad to know.

Thank you also those who posted about McClinton Tea. He/she is moving off my short list also. I appreciate your honest feedback on this one.

I'm going to Roses Unlimited's Open House in a few weeks and am thinking about adding one of these to the two I'll be picking up while I'm there. I'm hoping there will be some blooms to help me decide. If not, I can always wait until next year...

Gardenatlanta, another rose that is very similar to Enchantress is Souv de Francois Gaulain. I wondered often if they aren't the same rose, but there are differences. The color is basically the same, but SdFG has some white sometimes at the inner base of some petals that gives it a silvery appearance. It's also small, but I don't know that it will stay that way. It's low and wide, and I'm told it persists that way. It is equally well foliated. His flowers didn't seem to ball as much as Enchantress. They were planted at the same time, but Enchantress is bigger. Interestingly, I was out looking in the garden this evening, and the wind has blown away a lot of Enchantress' leaves so you can see her structure, but I forgot to look for thorns since I was distracted by at least one basal break shooting straight up. It was entirely strange to see her so naked. She has been covered with healthy leaves her whole life.

Both of these roses are in full southern sun all day. It didn't occur to me when I planted them that their deep color could fry in the intense heat. Actually, only a few of Enchantress' flowers crisped at the edges, but neither rose really suffered the way you'd expect. The balling persisted in the heat. It would be great if someone could explain that. I have never handled one of the flowers (except to deadhead when they're crispy) being that they are really short and a good ways into the beds, so I don't know if their petals are thick or thin. They are a little ruffled at the edges though and not the swirling type of flower form. Could it be immaturity?

Sherry

For an idea for another small tea, you might like Faith Whittlesey, a cream colored tea that I think will stay pretty small. RU is the only source for these tea roses from Viru Viraraghavan, so if you're going there you'll prob see them.

Mine was just a year old but it was very disease resistant and bloomed a lot. but you might already have this one; excuse me if so. It's another I brought with me. I like it a lot.

Gean

Faith Whittlesey is a lovely rose. It has stayed small for me so far (planted about 2 years ago) and the flowers are beautiful.