Alicia, I can't detect a fragrance from most Tea's but Devoniensis is strongly fragrant to me. The reason I mention this is I have two fairly new white Tea's that are as fragrant as Devoniensis. They are Mrs. Foley Hobbs and Victor Velidan. They are still babies so I don't have any idea what their mature size will be but the blooms are lovely and very fragrant. If you can do white/cream with a touch of pink then William R. Smith is a big ole Tea with huge blooms. Sometimes they are more cream but they usually have some pink on the blooms.

Carol

My favorites are Le Pactole, Mrs. Foley Hobbs, Mlle de Sombreuil (not Colonial White) and White Maman Cochet. Of course, my absolute fav is Devoniensis, but you already have that one.

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Just to be repetitive, can I say Devoniensis? Mine is a climber grown unwillingly as a bush,the burgundy canes and leaves, the blooms so beautiful in their perfect pointed shape that slowly change into huge sumptuous blooms has no equal. Even Sombreuil and MAC which I love are not in her echelon.
la

I suppose the term big is relative, and I have no monsters, and only a few white roses, but Mme. Joseph Schwartz is looking very lovely right now. She sulked all through the summer, refusing to grow one new leaf, not to speak of a bloom, while her relative Duchesse de Brabant heroically kept up the good work. Nevertheless, she is now blooming and her flowers are scented and beautiful. At her best I think she's very special.

Ingrid

I echo Ingrid's Mme. Joseph Schwartz recommendation. A very fine rose - ours in the cemetery is just as floriferous and fragrant as Duchesse de Brabant.
Anita

Anna Olivier is cream colored, that is when it is not being light pink or light yellow, or cream with a light brick color on the back of the petals! That's one of the reasons I like teas so much - never boring! Anyway, it is a great rose - as to size, I have one very old one in my garden that is 8 feet high, and about 12 feet by 12 feet around. It blooms all Spring, summer, and Fall. Scent is sort of normal tea scent. I have another one next to the driveway that I keep clipped so that it is only about 2 feet deep, by 5 feet wide by 10 feet high.

Jacqueline -- Thank you so much for that report!

I have a young 'Lady Roberts,' which would I am sure be like her Mama in size.
Now perhaps I can avoid yet another error in placement.

Jeri

Jeri - One other comment that might be helpful in placing "Lady Roberts" - My huge old Anna Olivier grows in deep to partial shade (inside what I can only describe as a thicket of huge old garden bushes, and under a large privet tree) 12 months of the year. Thought that might give you a few more options re placement. Not that you would plant it in full shade, but I'm sure it could do well in a less than 6 hours of sun spot if you need to put it there.

Jackie

1. For beauty of foliage, bush and bloom, the California form of 'Lamarque'. Here it is healthy in a local public no-spray garden.
2. For elegant cream blooms with light pink guard petals cl. White Maman Cochet, I've been picking blooms this Autumn for bouquets from it that have lasted 6-7 days in the vase, another plus for me. The roses are of a very elegant, star petaled formation. I've grown both forms and the the bush form blooms more often.
I adore 'Mme. Joseph Swartz' but it reads as light blush to my eyes, yet of all 3, this last is the most fragrant to my nose, to me it smells of raspberries and roses.

Luxrosa

Thanks Jackie -- That IS a help.

Our climate has definitely altered here.
Used-to-be, we were pretty dank much of the year, only really drying up some in Fall.
No rain, but a little fog much of the time.
The upper part of the garden, near the house, could lack sun, as
the sun often did not burn through the fog until 4 p.m.
The hillside was warmer, catching all the sun, and was a great rose home.
Now, the upper part of the yard makes a good rose environment,
while things on the hillside may have to tolerate too much intense heat.
Roses that have bare stretches of cane are subject to sun burn.
To survive down there, a rose may need some afternoon shade, and
enough foliage to make its own shade.

Jeri

You guys have given me way too many ideas! LOL

I don't personally grow 'Mme. Joseph Swartz', but I do grow Duchesse de Brabant. And if this sport smells as good as the Duchesse, she'd have to be a winner.

Randy

Victor Velidan and Mme Bravy are the best for me. Victor's blooms are huge and Mme Bravy nods her head in such a charming way.