My favorites are:

Baronne Prevost
Grandmother's Hat
Mme. Melanie Willermoz
Georgetown Tea
William Shakespeare 2000
Sweet Chariot
Mme. Alfred Carriere
Rhodologue Jules Gravereaux
The Prince
Sutter's Gold
Mary Rose

Basically that is the list of the roses that are blooming in my garden right now. I just love them all and it makes me happy to see them flowering, again! It feels like that we will be getting an awesome spring flush this year.

Christina

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All early roses are beautiful. It will be a while still before they begin to flower in my garden. 'Canary Bird' is the first, and is glorious, or at least she would be if not racked by cane girdler. 'Old Blush' and 'Mme. Alfred Carriere' are among the first to bloom. Also the Foetidas are early. Ours are maturing into solid shrubs and are great fear-nothing roses.
Happy Spring!
Melissa

I agree with Melissa, they're all beautiful. But, it's spring and time for the once flowering species and species hybrids. I wait all year for them and they only permit me a short period to enjoy them, so they have to be my favorites (at least while they are flowering!).

Hugonis
Basye's Amphidiploid 86-3
My DLFED seedlings, Dottie Louise X R. Fedtschenkoana
Vina Banks
Then, the Fedtschenkoana seedlings which germinated last year and haven't stopped flowering yet. Kim

It will be awhile before anything flowers but even the slow leafing is a wonder after the long gray drizzled winter. February's midpoint marked my one year anniversary of moving here, and so even more eager anticipation to see last year's new plantings of once bloomers hastily planted within a month of my suitcases. Maybe now I can really tell if if Pickering actually sent what I ordered last year ... Was that truly Blanchefleur I planted or an imposter? Will Konegin vD's fragrance blow me away again as did the few blooms that appeared last year?

The season of summer bloom is short, so anticipation and enjoyment begin when the first buds break. So grateful for newly emerging life and the long teasing spring.

-Rosa odorata is in bloom on st. patricks day, at the Berkeley Botanical garden, it grows beside the Chinese medicinal garden, where three plants of
- R. chinensis spontanea, are also blooming this week.

-Poulsens Yellow" My favorite yellow Florabunda by a long show, because this plant and its' blossoms show the demure grace of a China rose, and it blooms a month before the others of its' class.
-"Duchess de Brabant had a full flush of bloom in January, and she looks her prettiest then, some of her blooms were a light cerise from the cool weather.
My other Tea roses are in full bud and these two have produced a few precious roses: Mme. Berkeley, M.F.K..
I'd like to add a R. primula, I love its red new foliage that contrasts dramatically with its yellow roses, and its' graceful wand-like growth habit.
Luxrosa

Give me about a week and I'll tell you my best looking early roses. From what I remember Comtesse du Cayla, Clementina Carbonieri,Tamora, William R. Smith look great before the heat and thrips gets to them. Of course SdlM and all its kin are beautiful anytime.

I've been posting flowers on my blog since end of February (really early spring here). After last year's long winter this year's short one was very welcome.

Souv de la Malmaison
Le Vesuve
Climbing Maman Cochet
Reve d'Or is just exceptional in her 3rd year
Bow Bells
Bermuda's Anna Olivier
Duquesa
Mrs B R Cant
Aloha (I saw her first normal flower)
General Gallieni - Wowy zow!! His shades of red blend like stained glass. A new favorite, simply incredible. I hope my camera can catch it.
Madame Lombard - the first flower of this little baby did not disappoint!
Louis Philippe - flowers are redder and bigger than I've seen before
E Veyrat Hermanos - Magnificent! Who cares that it took him 3 years!
LaSylphide - big blowsy baby pink flowers started out upside down but today are looking up at me. She may be double but she opens flat out and shows her yellow stamens. Very charming & smelling of Lily of the Valley again.
Leonie Lamesch - excellent
R Fortuneana - exciting to see those double flowers with the button-eye up in the trees
Alexander Hill Gray - very nice strong yellow
Duchesse d'Auerstadt - perfect as usual
Pink Perpetue - this tiny plant is covered with a bunch of big, very pretty coral/red/pink flowers
Gruss an Aachen - back to her gorgeous self after coming out of pot prison
Arcadia Louisiana Tea has huge gorgeous blooms, very similar to SdlM when they flatten with strong tea scent

Sherry

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General Gallieni and Gruss An Aachen are pretty anytime here. I love those two roses!

My earliest rose, anxiously awaited as always here, is consistently Marie Bugnet.

Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Musings blog on Marie Bugnet

We are a bit behind those living in zone 10, but some of my favorite roses are blooming in my garden now:

banksie lutea - gorgeous clusters (they look like puff balls) of tiny light yellow blooms - peeking in several windows in our house.

Mme Alfred Carriere - she is on about her 3rd flush since Dec, climbing up an old plum tree that we can see from our bedroom window

Safrano - getting well into her Spring flush, after months of scattered bloom. The pale buff yellow blooms make a great contrast with all of the red new growth.

Duchesse de Brabant - started blooming in Jan, continuing now.

My absolute FAVORITE early Spring bloomer - Belle Portugaise (once blooming hybrid gigantica). The huge (about twice the size of most HT buds) pointed buds open into very large elegant pale pink/peach colored semi-double flowers. They nod down from canes 10-15 feet above my head. Getting a crick in my neck admiring them from below. They are so famously beautiful that my neighbors come over to look at them when they hear that they are blooming. This rose survives in many old old gardens (or what used to be gardens) in back of Victorian & Edwardian era homes in our neighborhood. They survive & bloom happily in many places where they get no care whatsoever, and are very healthy.

Jackie