Anna Olivier
Betty
Cecile Brunner
Devoniensis
Lady Hillingdon
Mme. Antoine Mari
Mme. Hardy
Mons. Tillier
Oklahoma
White Maman Cochet

I don't grow all of these, but I have had them or have seen them in other gardens - with one exception: Anna Olivier. I have loved that rose ever since seeing it in the Australian Tea Rose book. You said "anything goes", so I haven't bothered with how well these roses might do or not do. I'm just infatuated with them all.

Louise Odier
Apothecary
Graham Thomas
Pat Austin
Shakespeare 2000
Sweet Juliet
Rosa glauca
Rosa rugosa from my grandmother's house
Dortmund

I have listed roses flowering especially well this year.

Felicite Parmentier
Dupuis Jamain
Gruss an Aachen
Souvenir du Dr Jamain
Etoile de Holland Climbing
Charles de Mills
Jacques Cartier
Comte de Chambord
Great Western
Sympathie (It seems like every other rose is Sympathie in my neighbourhood, but it is really doing well this year, and surpisingly fragrant when in full bloom.)

No particular order...

Gloire de Dijon
Evelyn
Mme Alfred Carriere
Felicia
New Dawn
Amber Queen
Fellowship
Gertrude Jekyll
Graham Thomas
Crepuscule

For me, form follows fragrance - and I can live with blackspot & defoliation. So far, for me (based on what I have, in no particular order):

Heritage
Golden Celebration
Jude the Obscure
William Shakespeare 2000
Abraham Darby
Pretty Jessica
Lady Emma Hamilton
The McCartney Rose
Clothilde Soupert
Reine des Violettes

As winter wanes and spring unfolds, these are the roses I wait for most anxiously:

Mutabilis
Dr. W. Van Fleet
ALL of the ramblers on the 'Fence', most from Barbier.
Arcata Pink Globe (bought as 'Baltimore Belle')
Climbing Rouletii
Shailer's Provence
Mary/Alida/"Bess" Lovett
Mme. Antoine Mari
Maggie
Apothecary Rose
... and so many more!!

My choice is based on what is looking good and flowering nicely in the garden right now, which basically means what is doing well in the heat of summer.

In no particular order:

Mme. Ernest Calvat
Georgetown Tea
Eden, Climbing
Pope John Paul II
The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild
Sweetness
Mister Lincoln
Memorial Day
Bewitched
Belinda's Dream

It occurred to me that in general the Hybrid Teas and other more modern roses seem to deal better with the blazing sun, probably because they have more petal substance than most of the ORGs that I have, their prime time is in spring in my garden!

Christina

Quatre Saisons Blanc Mousseux
Elegant Gallica
Stanwell Perpetual
Souvenir de la Malmaison
LePactole
Maggie
Natchitoches Noisette
Kronprincessin Viktoria
Souvenir de St. Anne's
Alba Maxima
Alba Semi-Plena

Marie Pavie- constantly in bloom and spotless foliage
White Pearl in a Red Dragon's Mouth
Mutabilis
Perle d'or
Spice
Julia Child
Reve d'or
Easy Does it
Barcelona/Francis Dubreil
Purple Buttons
Ebb Tide / Midnight blue / Wild Blue Yonder

Le Vésuve, #1 by far
"Bengal Fire," prob. Miss Lowe's Variety
"Glendora"
R. sericea f. pteracantha
Belinda's Dream
Compassion
"Moser House Shed Rose"
Bouquet Parfait even if it did spot this spring
Mme Lambard [I voted Blanche Belgique off the island to include this workhorse]
Verdun [rough choice: this poly or Charles de Mills]

This was so much fun that I posted photos of each in the gallery, here. To be honest, I could have added another 10 to really be done with it.

Some of these are new, some are not. Some may not make the list for more than this year. But today, here are my top 10:

Ebb Tide - love its fragrance
Mrs. Dudley Cross- she must be on steroids!
Gruss An Aachen - I fell in love with these blooms
Lady Hillingdon
Westerland
Mutabilis - a big beautiful bush that gives me no trouble
Perle d'Or - sweet little blossoms that cover the bush
Julia Child -
Lady Banks - a spring smile. After moving this rose 3 times, she is putting out 15 ft. canes. :)
Pearlie Mae - not sure if she will continue to be a favorite, but this year I can see her blooming from the window, and she catches my breath every time.
Pinata (Not my favorite, but I had to include this rose because every visitor that comes, exclaims "Oh, my gosh! Look at this rose!") lol

Oh! I just realized this is the Antique Forum. I would not have included the moderns on my list if I had realized it sooner. Sorry!

Here are mine. The criteria for these is that they presently look very, very good. Though not necessarily in bloom, these are covered with healthy foliage in my no spray garden.

Alexander Hill Gray
Blumenschmidt
Clytemnestra
Marie Pavie
Mons. Tillier
Cornelia
Enchantress
Souv Francois Gaulain
Rosette Delizy
Mrs Joseph Schwartz

And there are another dozen that look good, too. We are having an unusual summer here in Central Florida. Usually, I can expect late afternoon thunderstorms most everyday. In the last ten weeks we have had three deluges and a couple of brief showers. So maybe that is why I have never seen such healthy greenery in my garden.

Souvenir de La Malmaison,
Pat Austin,
Kronprincessin Viktoria,
La France,
Stanwell Perpetual,
Capt Dyel de Graville,
& Hermosa
are the ones I own great roses I don't own
Blanche de Belgiques,
Paul Ricault,
FRAU KARL DRUSCHKI

Since my garden is only 16 months old take what I say with a grain of salt. I just adore anything roses.
Janet Inada*
Le vesuve*
Deveonensis
Mutabilis*
Mme Carrier
Zephy
Beloved
Lady Hillingdon*
Crepsule*
Salet
Charles de Mille
Tuscany Supberb
OK so I cant count. Those with a * are here one year. Those without a * this year. All of the *'d ones got winter protect last year thank goodness as the temperature dropped to 4 degrees for almost a week. Very unusual weather.
Happy gardening
Jeannie

what a lovely classic collection, Jeannie

hmm, well, since my garden is only 5 months old, I am holding my breath. But as babies go, these have been wonderful. No blackspot and floriferous, in a baby bear kind of way.

Gartendirector Otto Linne
Lauren
Little Butterflies
Indigo
Spice, Bermuda Mystery Rose
Marie Pavie
Cornelia
Queen of Denmark
Blue Mist
Madame Cornelissen
Pomponella

Abraham Derby (David Austin)(I'd mention this ten times if I could!)

Hot Cocoa
Graham Thomas (David Austin)
Memorial Day
Crown Princess Margareta (David Austin)
Berries 'n Cream
Mme Alfred le Carriere
Kathleen
New Dawn
William Shakespeare (David Austin)

I'm going to limit myself to ones that I'm growing and ones that have actually bloomed for me... and please keep in mind that all of these are new plants this year and I'm a newbie. :)

No particular order:

Sombreuil
Jude the Obscure
Grandmother's Hat
La France
La Reine
Mme Berard
William Shakespeare 2000
Madame Alfred Carriere
Lady Banks (yellow)
Belle Story

I have a lot of others that I think I -will- love, but they haven't really bloomed much yet, so I'm just not really sure. I'm sure it'll take a few years for me to truly have favorites.

Belinda's Dream
Heritage
Cecile Brunner
Darlow's Enigma
Cramoisi Superieur
Madame Alfred Carriere
Prairie Sunrise
Jude the Obscure
Colette
Lovers Delite/Fisherman's Friend

Have a feeling this will change next year. A couple of my new ones are looking really promising...

Each rose in my garden has something about it to make it a favourite but after much consideration these are the outstanding ones. The one attribute all my roses share (except for 'Lambert Closse') is that they are completely cane hardy down to -40.
Dr. Merkeley
Prairie Peace
Theresa Bugnet
Wasagaming
Lambert Closse
Louis Riel
Stanwell Perpetual
Prairie Sweetheart
Prairie Dawn
Hazeldean

Leo

I only got into roses in the last 2 years....so I am still learning, but OGRs and Austins are my most favorites, with a few HTs in the mix as well.

Top 10 currently in my garden: (no order)

Abraham Darby
Leveson Gower
B.R. Cant
Kathleen
Chrysler Imperial
Pope John Paul II
Anna Olivier
Double Delight
Archduke Charles
Christopher Marlowe (mine looks like a pincushion zinnia when it blooms!)

my top 10 soon to be added (no order):

Souvenir de la Malmaison (saw this personally for the first time in Florence Italy last year. The most beautiful rose I have personally ever seen or smelled)

Jude the Obscure
La Reine
Zephirine Drouhin
The Generous Gardener
Madame Alfred Carriere
Sombreuil
Quattre Saisons
Julia Child
Dainty Bess

I thought I posted yesterday. I must not of submitted it, oh well here's the post:

Humm, it is tough to decide! Today my picks are:
Fantin Latour
Mme. Legras de St. Germain
Hawkeye Belle
Marie Pavie
Hansa
Bow Bells
Marchessa Boccella
St. Cecilia(newer here,but doing so well for me)
Belle de Crecy
Leontine Gervais

Remy

I would be quite sad to do without any of these.

Marie Pavie - wafting scent, rebloom
Stanwell Perpetual - charming old-fashionedness, hardy nostalgia rose
Old Port - voluptuous color, form, scent -- reminds me of the best of the Austens
Rosa moschata - wafting scent, long bloom
Grandmother's Hat - yes, it really is as good as they say
Oklahoma - my favorite of the fragrant dark red HTs
Violette - my favorite of the purple multiflora ramblers, no scent but a divine color and a longish bloom
Felicite Parmentier - fragrant alba in a manageable size, longish bloom unless we get a heat wave. Mine is in decline but I think I will replace it if it fails.
Cl Etoile de Holland - not mine, which has never grown much, but others I have seen. I may try a new clone.
Cl Lady Hillingdon - mine is a baby and suffered this spring, but I fell in love with it all over England.

Not so crazy about singles or delicate, tissue-paper petals. I like my roses to have substance; to be abundant and rich, mysterious and beautiful, evocative and haunting. And my second 10 would be very heavy in HPs - Glendora, Sydonie, Henry Nevard, Anna Alexieff and the like. Some albas and gallicas and once-blooming ramblers, too. But you did say only ten, and the ones above are the roses I like best right now.

Rosefolly

It has been a few months. Any changes/updates?

In looking over my old list I notice that six have fallen somewhat out of favor, two because they're mildewed and the others because another rose's spring bloom is prettier. Here we go:

1. Le Vesuve
2. Mr. Bluebird
3. Belinda's Dream
4. Mrs. B.R. Cant
5. Mutabilis
6. Souvenir de la Malmaison
7. Spice
8. Cottage Rose
9. Reve d'Or

10. Julio Iglesias

The current thrips attack has probably unduly influenced this very emotional choice plus I've got some new roses which is making me reconsider.

Old list:
LeVesuve
Souv de la Malmaison
Clotilde Soupert
Mme Abel Chatenay
Maman Cochet
Anna Olivier
Climbing Maman Cochet
Louis Philippe
Reve d'Or
White Pet/Softee

Replace
Climbing Maman Cochet with Bow Bells
White Pet/Softee (didn't get thrips) with Lillian Austin
Anna Olivier with General Gallieni
Maman Cochet with White Maman Cochet

New list

LeVesuve
Souv de la Malmaison
Clotilde Soupert
Mme Abel Chatenay
Bow Bells
Lillian Austin
General Gallieni
White Maman Cochet
Louis Philippe
Reve d'Or

There are others I could add like Mme Lombard, Duquesa, Souv de St Anne's... and others.

Sherry

Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation...

In no particular order, and limiting myself to roses I'm growing:

Rose de Rescht
"Grandmother's Hat"
"Dr. Peck's 12 Avenue Smoothie"(/Charles Lawson??)
Felicite Parmentier
"Portland from Glendora"(/Joasine Hanet??)
Mme. Jules Bouche

I'll stop there, so I can decide on 4 more later, when some I have under evaluation are a bit bigger.

I've just started growing teas, chinas and noisettes in the last year and a half but am lucky enough to visit other gardens on a regular basis and observe them in their full glory. Here's my list and what I love about them:

Hermosa - the purist pink and adorable cup shape
Lady Roberts - luscious layered colors
Rosette Delizy - like having a red and gold rose in one - rich
Wm. R. Smith - massive magnificent blooms
Mm. Berkeley - starry blooms galore the first year
Francis Dubrieul - for the scent
Isabella Sprunt - pure lemon color
S. de Mme Leonie Viennot - very vigorous, massive blooms
Blush Noisette - fragrant and floriferous - planted a hedge of these
Renae - reminds me of a wild rose - fragrant, have a hedge of these also

I lost three newly planted roses to the lawn mower including Lady Roberts, but Perle de Jardins sprang back from the graft, bloomed and is steadily building up - a miracle rose.

In my own year old garden, rose foliage is making my heart throb, as night temps are still in the high 30's.

So based on beautiful, healthy foliage on roses that survived a wet and cold winter (for zone 8a), (mid teens)

Redoute's Red noisette - I haven't seen this thing bloom, but the foliage is beautiful.
Felicia
Cornelia
Excellenz Von Schubert
Heritage

Portland from Glendora
Blue Mist
Lynnie
All the albas
Therese Bugnet

consolation prize for persistence to

Devoniensis
Mme. Melanie Willermoz
Enchantress
Faith Whittlesey

for showing growth at the base even though they died to the ground. I am so tickled to see it!

Currently have:

Charles de Mills
Old Blush
Abraham Darby
Graham Thomas
an unkown Pink
Crown Princess Margaretta
Raubritter
Chestnut Rose
a mislabeled gallica
Pom Pom de bourgougne

However if I were to get any of the follwing the would be inserted

Mons Tillier
Variegata de Bologna
The Reeve

I have quite the variety. I think if I had to move and could only take 10 roses....these are the ones I wouldnt leave behind:

Country Dancer--never stops blooming
Duchesse de Brabant--Never stops blooming and never needs pruning.
Double Delight--because it doesn't know its supposed to be a BS magnet and the blooms perfume my entire kitchen.
General Gallieni--because he is GORGEOUS
Julia child- a fantastic yellow in a no-spray garden.
Blush Noisette--my first antique. Perfumes the yard.
Madison--the last to bloom but gorgeous, no pruning, and my daughter's name :o)
Mystic Beauty--because it is
Green Ice--a low growing no-care, no-thrip white rose!
climbing Pinkie--because when not trained to grow up, is a fountain of beauty and makes a (thornless) cave for my little guys to play in.

Based on trolling the forum for other people's opinion and pictures and William Welch's recommendations, I'm planning on adding roses from this list in the fall:

Le Vesuve
Duchesse de Brabant
Mrs. B R Cant
Mrs. Dudley Cross
Georgetown Tea
Madame Isaac Pereire
Hermosa
Marie van Houtte
Maman Cochet
Reines des Violettes

I planted my first roses this spring, trying to get easy beginner ones :)

Hot Cocoa
Therese Bugnet
Shockwave
Cinco de Mayo
Heirloom

Hot Cocoa and Therese Bugnet have done so well for me. Hot Cocoa has shot up to almost my height and has bloomed all summer. Therese Bugnet has grown as much but had only one beautiful spring bloom before my great dane ran through her and blew off all the blooms. she has only been having growth spurts since then, but is hardy and healthy.

My cinco de mayo and shockwave floribundas are very small, but blooming. and My Heirloom HT has been giving me beautiful purple roses all summer. Love her. :) Now I want some romantic antiques filling up my garden and I can't tell you how much I appreciate the wealth of information here! Thank you!

Best for scent is a red tea, Souv; de Claudius Denoyal
Re'd'Or is the healthiest
Jude the Obscure--scent
MAC--scemt amd good health
Full Sail--great foliage,rebloom,scent, so reliable
Irene Churucca-smells like honey,just so beautiful
Pax-blooms all year here, prolific,remontant,fragrant
Bishop Darlington-elegant and gorgeous
Devoniensis-beautiful blooms from bud to blow
Smarty-a single of great charm-looks like appleblossoms
Sutter's Gold-smells like ripe nectarines
Night Owl, mosst beautiful deep aubergine color,climber

Having tossed out so many bad ones I pretty much have 180 good ones or ones I like.

My top 10 list changes slightly according to the day and I have several promising young ones that might make the list in the next few years.

Here is the list of top ten in my garden right now. (order is just the order that I saw them in the garden)

1. Clementina Carboneri (nice color--great fragrance)
2. Devoneisis (for sure in my top 5--love this rose)
3. Duchesse de Brabant (great bloomer--great fragrance--in top 5)
4. Mrs. BR Cant (still young but love it already)
5. Mystic Beauty (probably the best performer in my garden--looks like SdlM but doesn't ball)
6. Annie Laurie McDowell (still kind of young but excellent plant--healthy and fragrant)
7. Clotilde Soupert (sweet looking and fragrant)
8. Souv. de Francois Gaulain (bloom machine--great color--if it were fragrant, it would be in the top 3).
9. Quietness great bloomer in a less than ideal location

10. Borderer (still kind of young but beautiful coloration, and great rebloom--don't know about fragrance--still too low to the ground)

Also in no real order:

Zephirine Drouhin
Nur Mahal
Duchesse de Brabant
Devoniensis
Mutabilis
Le Vesuve
Archduke Charles
Cramoisi Superieur
Ducher
Arethusa

I like the chinas best as they grow like weeds here and need very little in the way of fussing.

I'm a sucker for scented roses, in spite of their tendency to get mildew and rust. I haven't added many new roses in the last 10 years because I've used all available space for the ones I have. Here are my favorites:
Mr. Lincoln
Fragrant Cloud
Double Delight
Sutter's Gold
Lagerfeld
Lemon Spice
Sweet Surrender
Blue Nile (stingy bloomer, but I treasure what I get)
Typhoo Tea
Fame (the only one with no scent, but it produces tons of gorgeous roses)

Felicite Parmentier (alba)
Jenny Duval (gallica)
R. californica 'First Dawn' (species)
R. minutifolia 'Pure Bea' (species)
R. alabukensis (species)
R. foetida 'Persiana' (species)
Cassie (shrub)
Wild Edric (rugosa)
Rene d'Anjou (moss)
Baronne Prevost (hybrid perpetual)

Melissa

Right now my roses are "resting" in the winter cold so I'll list some old favorites and some that I have great expectations for, even though they haven't shown their potential yet (I'm cheating since that makes it 20 roses!)

Mutabilis (always on any list of my favorites)
Souvenir de la Malmaison (a star performer throughout most of the year)
Potter and Moore (sumptuous, lovely blooms)
La France (very fragrant, large and beautiful blooms)
Mrs. B.R. Cant (not mature but so many flowers)
Aunt Margy's Rose (beautiful miniature lilac pink, fragrant blooms filled with petals)
William R. Smith (gorgeous large silvery pink blooms)
Souvenir de President Carnot (lovely, long lasting blooms)
Mrs. Dudley Cross (thornless, with beautiful white and pink-tinged blooms)
Levesen-Gower (lilac-pink flowers packed with petals on a small but bushy plant)

The New Hopefuls:
Earth Song
Cl. Lady Hillingdon
Pretty Jessica
Young Lycidas
China Doll
Lady Alice Stanley
Devoniensis
Marjorie Palmer
Pink Lafayette
Duchess of Albany

Ingrid

O here we go again...and what else to do on a hopeless chilly Tuesday in January. Hybrid musks and species are by far the most common classes in my garden....and right now, facing a move to woodland, those choices look rather percipient.
So, in no particular order, these are the ones I will be watching closely, to evaluate their possible performance in shade.
The earlies
R.CANTABRIDGIENSIS- this is our local Cambridge rose so obviously makes the cut against steep competition from various yellow spins.
DUNWICH ROSE - a perfect little sand rose which will do well along the sandy soil at the woodland edge.
Rampaging tree climbers and such - these have been problematic at the allotment, requiring a great many timber supports (which fortunately do sterling duty as bean, squash and tomato supports). However, I am hoping to give then their head and let 'em climb.
AYRESHIRE SPLENDENS- a truly delicious field rose with the longest, most flexible canes - almost vine like.
HYBRID HELENAE SAEMMLING - a pale yellow wildling with many primrose blooms and great clusters of heps
NASTARANA - dunno how this little persian delight will do in a bit of shade but it is a late and fragrant bloomer with ethereal white flowers and a delicate fragrance.
SIBELIUS - this was a purple surprise for me, bought on a whim to make up the numbers to justify the postage costs from Europe. Grows well next to a tumbling Goldfinch and lilac Jasmina.
My 2 glorious end stops - punctuation at each end of the allotment
R.MOYESII, SCHARLACHGLUT
Planted next to the apple cordons as a little joke-
R.POMIFERA aka Wolley Dod's Rose - the foliage of almost turquoise blue against the softest shell pink.....
Finally, a terrible choice between various HMs, with JACQUELINE HUMERY and MOONLIGHT doing their white and wonderful thing, over and over, all summer.

I'm with Campanula that most of my Antique roses fall into the Hybrid Musk category, along with some hybrid perpetuals, particularly since I like reblooming roses as much as possible. Here's a list from a cold zoner, keeping modern roses off the list:

Baptiste Lafaye
Petite de Terre Francaise
Darlow's Enigma (probably an antique)
Caldwell Pink/Pink Pet
Marchesa Boccella/Jacques Cartier
Frances Dubreuil/Barcelona
Vick's Caprice
Gruss an Aachen & pink sport
Jeanne La Joie, mini cl.
Maggie

Cynthia

A mix of my favorites; Souv. de la Malmaison, The Green Rose, Baron Prevost, Zephirine Drouhin, Lady of the Dawn, Hannah Gordon, Moonstone, Louise Estes, Tiffany Lynn, Whirlaway. I can think of 10 more right off the bat.

Louise Odier
MAC
Bishops Castle
New Dawn
Cl Cecile Brunner
Lasting Love
Jardins de Bagatelle
Firefighter
Julia Child
Intrigue

However, there are new roses to come and perhaps some new favorites will be found.

..what an interesting thread. I notice Mutabilis features a lot, as it does in mine...
I can't do less than 12...

Mutabilis
Blush Noisette
Complicata
Bonica
Graham Thomas
Malvern Hills
Mortimer Sackler
Odorata 'Sanguinea' [Bengal Crimson]
Alexandre Girault
Mme Lauriol de Barny
Ispahan
Lavender Lassie

Oh my goodness, this is easy!! Mrs. B.R. Cant, Mons. Tillier, Spice, Ducher, Louis Philippe, Champney's Pink Cluster, China Doll, Don Juan, Crespucule, Drift roses all of them.....sally

Today? Duchesse de Brabant, playgirl, sdlm, mrs Dudley cross, peace (believe it or not), Ducher, cherry parfait, grandmothers hat (!!!), Dick Clark, sweet pea...as they are the first to say spring is here!!

This will probably change in the next few months, but here they are:

Evelyn
Brother Cadfael
Jude the Obscure
Ascot
Frederic Mistral
Julia Child
Dainty Bess
Young Lycidas
Ballerina
Angel Face
Golden Celebration

Runners Up:
Ebb Tide
Wild Blue Yonder

Diane

Here are the top performers in my relatively new rose garden, so far:

Pink Cracker
M. Tillier
Mutabilis
John Paul II (on Fortuniana)
Mr. Lincoln (on Fortuniana)
Europeana (on Fortuniana)
Le Pactole
Duchess Du Brabant
Caldwell's Pink
Alister Stella Grey
Teasing Georgia (on Fortuniana)

I'm sure that this list will change next year, as my Vintage Gardens bands mature. Also, I really don't expect the ones grafted onto Fortuniana to live very long and I will not be purchasing any more grafted roses. Reason: Graft separation/failure, too many of them have died.

Mme Joseph Schwartz
Mrs BR Cant
Fragrant Cloud
Iceberg
Mrs Herbert Stevens Cl
Ebb Tide (new for me and just bloomed; love it)
China Doll (never stops blooming)
Evelyn
Mons Tillier
Mrs Dudley Cross; she is great

I know this is more than 10, but:

Sexy Rexy; new for me and great, will see how it does long term
Firefighter: beautiful red HT
Safrano
Kaiserin Auguste Vikoria

I could go on and on

This entry is a little late, but nevertheless, these roses perform well in North Texas clay.
Peach drift rose

Belinda's Dream

Ducher

Marie Pavie

Souvenir de la Malmaison

Nachitoches Rose/Grandma's yellow rose

Lady Hillingdon

Charisma (Deep orange Floribunda)

Jude the Obscure

Archduke Charles