Stick with the pink ones. Earth Song would be an excellent rose for you. I've had significant hardiness issues with Prairie Harvest.

The off color/multicolored ones don't seem to be much different from the typical older HTs in terms of hardiness or disease resistance.

Ditto on Earth Song as #1. Other good bright pink ones are Carefree Beauty and Country Dancer.

Prairie Harvest (lt. yellow) is good if you are a bit warmer than mad_gallica.

Les Sjulin has hybrid tea form, bicolor light pink and Queen Elizabeth pink.

Winter Sunset, apricot, but flowers fade out and pop open quickly.

Mother of Pearl is half Buck rose with all the virtues but a superior flower, very long lasting, light apricot-pink.

All the above are blackspot resistant and fully hardy in my climate. Quietness is a great light pink rose that is resistant in many gardens, but not fully so in mine.

I only have Prairie Sunrise, Quietness, Frontier Twirl, and Virginia Reel.

Prairie Sunrise has been really good. Nice apricot color, fragrant and excellent disease resistance in my no-spray garden. And has been holding up well in week after week of 100 plus degrees.

Next would be Quietness, soft pink and fragrant but so far only average disease resistance for me.

Virginia Reel is healthy and fragrant but puts out long canes without many blooms. It is a plus though that it has hardly any thorns.

Frontier Twirl almost died over the winter and I think it will probably shovel-prune itself the next cold snap.

Chiming in here from zone 7A in Tulsa, OK, my opinions may not work for you because of the zone differences.

I am having success in my no spray garden with the following Buck roses:

Square Dancer
Prairie Harvest
Quietness
Earth Song
Golden Unicorn
Serendipity
Prairie Breeze
Pearlie Mae
Folksinger
Country Dancer
Simon Estes
Carefree Beauty
Winter Sunset
Wanderin Wind (if it is Buck)
April Moon

Some of the most beautiful couldn't handle black spot without spray. I really miss my large ring of Prairie Stars. I miss Distant Drums, Frontier Twirl, Prairie Sunset (and Sunrise, I think), Honey Sweet,

Good luck, and if you don't spray, let us know what works for you.
Sammy

My favorites are Hawkeye Belle, Country Dancer, Honey Sweet, Prairie Star, Prairie Harvest, Distant Drums, & Barn Dance.

I have a friend in MA who put in three Serendipty this spring and is so in love with theem he's going to put in a whole row next year.

Honesweet blooms her little heart out for me. Blooms are the color of an explosion in a lipstick factory. Quietness gets some blackspot. Les Sulin is hardy but blooms blow quickly and have a smell rather than a scent. Wanderin' Wind started OK but blooms got small and piddly. You are in a warmer zone so you have more choices.

I have not seen Aunt Honey, mentioned yet. AH is one of my favorites here in Tropical Minnesota zone 4a.

No disease, as hardy as any of the buck roses, and plenty of nice pink HT form blooms that come in repetitive flushes.

AH has it over Earth Song with better color, hardiness, form, and resistance to PM. Both are vigorous. ES blooms continuously vs flushes for AH.

Regards,

Charles

Karenforroses that pic of 'Prarie Sunrise' is stunning. Thanks for sharing that. Wowza!

Does Aunt Honey have any fragrance? My Earthsong takes a long time to come back after the winter. It has just started really blooming.

I would call Aunt Honey's fragrance "light" and Earth Song's "faint"

I grow AH and ES side by side in a foundation planting. They both freeze back close to the mulch line. AH came through this past winter with a couple of inches more of green cane than ES.

Ah gets off to a faster start and blooms first. ES is a strong finisher and is bigger by the end of the growing season. They both respond well to fertilizer and extra water.

At the moment, they are both in a summer slump. We have had unusual hot weather compounded by the fact that I have not been able to spray, water or fertilize this year.

Charles

Hoov, thanks for the compliment on my Prairie Sunrise. Catrose, I'm so glad you mention Serendipity. I forgot to mention that wonderful rose, which has been a consistent bloomer, and very hardy and disease resistant. I'll have to take a picture. I grow it on a tripod because it likes to get fairly tall.

Remember, there are significant climate differences between the East and the Midwest. Only a few Buck roses have good blackspot resistance here.

Interesting, I was just thinking about my twenty-some Buck roses now that I am into my third year of no-spray. I really got into collecting Buck roses when I was spraying regularly, but now I see that I will be taking many, many of them out. Beautiful flowers, poor garden plants - in my garden anyway. The ONLY Buck rose that I can unequivocally recommend with no ifs ands or buts is Applejack. But, since a 10x7' rose is not the type of rose most of you are thinking of when you talk about Buck Roses, LOL, then my next best votes go to Quietness, Square Dancer and Distant Drums. (After 9 years, my Earth Song had declined and finally didn't return this spring; otherwise it probably would have made my short list, too.)

I grow about 20 Buck roses here in Kansas. My favorites are Freckles (hard to find), Prairie Harvest (no hardniess issues here and absolutely perfect foliage), Earth Song, Carefree Beauty, Prairie Star, Hawkeye Belle, Quietness..okay, gotta stop somewhere

Check out the below link to a blog posting I did.

Here is a link that might be useful: Griffith Buck Rose blog posting on Garden Musings

Rick in Canada in past posts has recommended Prairie Harvest and Pearlie Mae. Both have done well for me in Zone 7 as well as Carefree Beauty, Earth Song, Winter Sunset and Apple Jack, All have been quite healthy with no spraying and minimal care.
Jim

I would expect that most Buck roses are virused due to when they were introduced. Maybe it would be helpful, when one describes their plant(s), to include a statement whether the rose came from "virus indexed" mother stock.

I haven't seen any virus on the Buck rose's I've grown...none whatsoever. I suspect that's because every one I've grown is own root.

Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Musings

Thank you all for the helpful advice! Looks like theres quite alot to choooose from, luckily i have till next year. I really like quietness and distant drums so far. Im going to check out that garden musings now, sounds interesting!
Also the pics are great! So lovely

I've got a few that I don't think were mentioned;

Blue Skies is a Hybrid Tea. I LOVE the color and bloom form of this rose. It is a typical Hybrid Tea shape - tall and not broad, with blossoms at the top. So I hide it behind shorter varieties. It does rust in the spring here, but spraying it once seemed to do the trick. It dies to the ground over winter (I don't protect), but is very robust during the growing season.

Gentle Persuasion is a lovely creamy apricot peach, with lovely bloom form. However, it fades to beige/white rather quickly in hot weather. I moved it into more shade, where it does better; however, if we ever move I probably won't buy it again. It is a healthy plant but on the shorter side. Some susceptibility to rust.

Happy gardening!
Lara

I love Carefree Beauty--

Would love to try Quietness and several other Buck roses but I have to limit my gardening---boo hoo---

Florence