I tallied up all the favorite Teas listed here on this thread. Here are the results so far. 6 votes -- Lady Hillingdon 5 votes -- Duchesse de Brabant Etoille de Lyon 4 votes-- G. Nabonnand 3 votes -- Clementina Carbonieri Francis Dubreuil Le Pactole Le Vesuve Mme. Berkeley Mrs Dudley Cross Mrs. B.R. Cant 2 votes -- Devoniensis Marie Van Houtte Mme Joseph Schwartz Mons Tillier Rosette Delizy William R. Smith Honorable Mention  every Tea on earth! Alliance Franco-Russe Angels Camp Tea Anna Olivier Cels Multiflora Comtesse Emmeline de Guigne Georgetown Tea Ley's Perpetual Madame Antoine Mari Madame Antoine Rebe Madame Lombard Marie d'Orleans Miss Atwood Mlle. de Sombreuil Niles Cochet Puerto Rico Safrano Souv. de Pierre Notting Souv.de Claudious Denoyal Susan Louise brought to you by Karen, a rose newbie who is learning!! (using my sonÂs gardenweb name)

I'm a little confused, some of these are not entirely tea, let me know if the noisette / china hybrids should be reported on elsewhere. A Mme Antoine Mari - no sign of mildew, occasional bs exclusively on old leaves. 2 years old now General Schablikine - as Mme Mari. Beales 'Anna Olivier' - not a spot on it all season - first year rose, still tiny Isabella Sprunt - ditto (if the blooms didn't lose form so fast this would be my perfect yellow rose) Clementina Carbonieri - ditto Mme Jules Gravereaux - ditto, except 4ft tall, not tiny. Duchess D'Auerstadt - ditto, 6ft up it's arch. No blooms but immaculate. Lamarque has been immaculate the whole summer and has taken off like a racehorse in its pot - it's well over 6ft tall. Destined to grow over an arch onto a warm wall. I love, love, love it. Still, have to see what the damp dank winter does. Perle d'Or, small, first year, spotless. B Reve d'Or has had a touch of bs on the long branch that dangled in the undergrowth - once propped up that disappeared. No sign of mildew. Comtesse du Cayla in a pot mildewed, the one in the ground did not, so I think it's an artefact of water supply rather than the rose. Lady H - blackspots a bit when unhappy; i.e., I haven't watered it enough. Never mildews. Sanguineua - occasional spots, no mildew - in desperate need of a bigger pot, so factor that in. Mutabilis, never mildew, will bs and shed and regrow leaves rapidly. No more than say, 10%. Isabella Nabonnand - needs a new pot, some bs, but it's been swamped by an ambitious euphorbia so that might be part of it. Maman Cochet and Maman Cochet white - these leave me this autumn to their new up the road home. Both had a teeny touch of mildew and bs, but I think that was lack of water related. Incidentally, they ball like it's their job. They have excellent sun and air flow too. General Galleni is about 6 inches high in his pot and not doing much. Had a touch of mildew when in shade early this spring. Beale's 'Archiduc Joseph', tiny, had a touch of bs early - again was shaded. Souvenir de Leonie Viennot. Had a little mildew its first spring and autumn, in a pot. Clean so far this year, apart from limited bs on old leaves. It bloomed like a trouper in my hottest,driest spot. C Crepuscule mildews for me, and has done so lightly but unremittingly since it first leafed out. I am not in love with it atm, really hope it grows out of it. it is in the more moisture retentive area of the garden so I don't think it's a dry root issue, unfortunately. Alexander Hill Gray, ditto, also it balls, ugh. No bs though. Le Vesuve - doesn't mildew, does BS periodically. Don't love the effect of bare thorny canes frankly. It does bloom its socks off though.

I am starting to think that hybrid teas, even the older ones, are not as much work to keep clean as the dense shrubby OSO EZEs and the Knock outs. wIth the HTs you just look to the hygiene, air transfer and spray them with old fashioned Sulpher Lime and dormant oil in the winter. With the twiggy new shrubs you can accumulate all kinds of fungus and stuff but they keep blooming and over grow the yellow leaves. They have to be opened up and cleaned up or they infect everything around them. I really believe this. You really cant strip their leaves off; its suicide. Here in coastal NJ we are in black spot hell, fungusamongus every spring. The nights are cold and wet. The days can get warm with big drops in temperature. Humidity all year. I have rugosas but keep them far away from other roses because they are great mildew traps. I like all of them. Some that I think are excellent for us in cold 6B are Autumn Sunset, Queen Elizabeth, New Dawn, Sea Foam, Cecile Brunner, Heritage (prone a little to bs) popcorn drift, and the newer Kordes. I have found great Maidens Blush gets some, but its worth it, so does Sidonie, but I love it. Sun, spacing, food and hygiene (pick up the leaves) are the keys.

The healthiest for me in my no-spray NJ garden are: Baltimore Belle (immaculate) Bubble Bath (nothing but a touch of blackspot and/or mildew in late Autumn) Clotilde Soupert (nothing but a touch of mildew in both Spring and late Autumn) Golden Buddha (nothing but a touch of mildew in late Autumn) Honorine de Brabant (nothing but a touch of blackspot in late Autumn) Marie Pavie (nothing but a touch of blackspot in late Autumn) Mme de Sevigne (nothing but a touch of blackspot in late Autumn) Nouveau Monde in commerce as (immaculate) Pink Soupert (nothing but a touch of mildew in late Autumn) Prospero (touches of blackspot but barely noticeable) Rose du Roi original (nothing but a touch of blackspot in late Autumn) Rosa moschata (immaculate) Souvenir de la Malmaison (nothing but a touch of mildew in late Autumn) Souvenir de Victor Landeau (nothing but a touch of blackspot in late Autumn) Generally, my Teas and Chinas are also virtually immaculate, except that some get touches of mildew when it's cold and damp -- basically that's in Spring before they bloom, and again in late Autumn. :-) ~Christopher