Oh my your garden sounds wonderful---I'm sure you will get many good suggestions for your Zone---Celeste has gorgeous roses and she -is in New Hampshire---I will check my favorite roses to see if they do well in Zone 4---
when I see your name the first one that pops to mind is Lavender Lassie---but she is only good to 6b---

I'm anxious to see the roses that are suggested

good luck with your new garden and please post pictures

Florence

One of my favoite easy care rose bushes is Carefree Beauty/ Katy road pink and she is good to 4b-----a great rose

Florence

This is a very pretty rose. Thanks for the recommendation. Do you have a picture of your rose? I found this on the internet. I think this would be a nice rose to add to the garden :)

Here is a link that might be useful: Carefree Beauty Rose

If you mean a potpourri as in you want to make potpourri, then I would suggest Paul Neyron and Madame Isaac Perriere. I started making potpourri back before it became popular (er, I hate to admit it, but the late 70's -- okay, I wasn't a baby but I was pretty young). These roses have such a nice fragrance and the petals hold their color well when dried.

I also love Cecille Brunner for the buds. It makes the most perfect tiny rosebud and they look awesome in potpourri or in any craft that uses dried rosebuds. Nice smell too and for me a prolific bloomer.

if you did not mean potpourri in that way. . . . well, uh, never mind.

Wilo- I did...and thank you :)

Cecile Brunner is one of my favorites. I've seen pictures of Paul Neyron and Madame Isaac Perriere. They're beautiful roses! Any other herbs that you would recommend for potpourri?

The first roses that came to mind were the sweetly-scented and highly romantic albas 'Felicite Parmentier' and 'Great Maiden's Blush'. They offer a pure, refined and sweet fragrance that is not overpowering (my favorite of all the rose scents), good health and hardiness, beautiful foliage, and gorgeous soft pink blooms that are the epitome of romance. I love so many old roses, but if I had to narrow it down to which I find the most romantic and whose fragrance is ethereal, it would be these two beauties. But really, any Alba would be a contender. Queen of Denmark, Madame Plantier, Celestial, Alba Maxima, Chloris, Madame Legras de St. Germain, Pompom Blanc Parfait.....are all romantic and bear a sweet fragrance.
And those blue-green leaves and great zone 4 hardiness too! My vote goes to the Albas.

Celeste

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When I was making potpourri, I grew a lot of fennel, especially the bronze fennel. I love how bronze fennel leaves look in my arrangements with the old roses and the smell is awesome.

Other herbs I grew for potpourri were mint, lemon balm, lemon verbena (I just LOVE lemon verbena), pineapple sage and basil.

If there is an herb that you just LOVE the smell of, I would grow it for the potpourri. If you are making this for yourself.

I also included lavender. The leaves as well as the flowers are a great addition.

For large, fluffy, fragrant, old world, and hardy I would recommend St. Swithun. It is one of my favorites and is said to be good to zone 5. I don't know if it is hardy enough but in all other capacities it is more than capable.

Marchesa Boccella and Sydonie are excellent roses. They are hardy, reliable, and have superb fragrance.

I couldn't detect much scent on Sydonie. 1st year with me, and the flowers are tiny and doesn;t bloom much in summer. I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Souvenir de la Malmaison.

Although not an old rose, but I really love David Austin rose, Evelyn.