I love Earth Song, very healthy. I am getting me another this Fall.

Patrick

Earth Song is very pretty. It is very close in color to Country Dancer. I am hoping someone will enable me into a bicolor Buck or different shade of pink.

Gee, michaelg-- if you want her to get Earth Song, why don't you just come out and say it! What's with all the pussyfooting around?

LOL

Kate

Well, on reflection, not everyone needs to grow the best modern rose in existence.

I see that most of you posting or responding to this post are in warm zones. I was under the impression that the Buck's did better is cold zones. I love them and would love to grow them but I have to find them on fortuniana or at the very least own root. I'm really glad to see that they do well in your warm zones. I really want Prairie Star.
Nancy

Nancy, get thee to Chamblee's. I just received their new catalog today, and the first section is devoted to Dr. Buck's beauties.

I have Carefree Beauty----it is wonderful.

Florence

Prairie Clogger - dark red, single, fragrant, blooms all the time, good disease resistance. My latest heart throb.

I bought mine ownroot from Ashdown I think.

You know how well singles repeat and this is a vigorous bush. I'd already planted a bunch of red roses across the front of my house - if I'd had Prarier Clogger sooner, I'd have planted multiples of it instead.

I like all my Bucks. Finally got Quietness, which has had at least one bloom since the day I popped it out of its pot about 3 months ago. Its pale pink and fragrant. At the rate its growing and blooming I think it is going to live up to its reputation.

Big pink shrub that blooms all the time - Prairie Squire. The only rose bush I've had that bloomed more were the Betty Priors. I took two lbs of buds off it late last fall.

I think Michael should post pictures of Earth Song for me...lots of them. Right?!!!

Ronda
;o)

Well now, I think Michael has done his job, I don't have Earth Song. Pictures someone, pretty please.

Carla

Sequoia has Earth Song and we can order Jeri Jennings too. See, there's no hope for a rose addict!
Michael, I blame you for this.

Carla

I don't have a proper camera, but here's a search page for you to browse. Maybe harryshoe will repost one of his beautiful bush shots.

I have to admit, I don't know how it does in extreme heat, but the huge flush now opening for me has full-sized and deeply colored blooms. Highs were in the low 90s during most of August.

It really is an extraordinary rose for heavy production, health, toughness, orderly vigor, and handsome plant and flower.

Here is a link that might be useful: ES on GW

Until Harryshoe shows up with his gorgeous pic, maybe these will do.

Earth Song
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Here is a less artistic version that shows more of the bush.
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Hope that helps.

Kate

That looks so much like Country Dancer. I love the way Country Dancer's outter petals turn white as they age.

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Earth Song has a purply-pink center in the young flower, fading to rose pink. Country Dancer is exactly watermelon pink or red and a little stronger color.

I agree..Country DAncer is a fantastic bloomer, very resistant, a good grower and a pretty rose. My EArth Song is a little more bs prone, and not quite as good a bloomer. Mine has sulked after being pruned hard last year.

For me Quietness is about the best Buck in terms of plant vigor, health, and bloom production. Also has an intense fragrance but it's variable. Not always there. Pat Henry at RU recommended Simon Estes as being comparable to QUietness in habits but is a deeper pink. I have not found it to be very vigorous yet but we're about 17" below normal in rainfall.

Prairie Harvest is bs prone in my yard! Very dissappointing. I find Carefree BEauty to be pretty much continuous and clean. Folksinger is almost continuous, very healthy, and can be beautiful shades of apricot except in the worst heat. It has as good a plant shape as Quietness. Another good bloomer is Polonaise for almost red. Griff's Red is new to me but so far is clean and a good bloomer even as a small plant. I'm told he's very vigorous. Hawkeye Belle is vigorous and a good bloomer, but the blooms are much better in cooler weather.
I love the color of Autumn Sunset but mine is too new to say much about.

Linda