Hi Megan, You might find Amy Padgett's website on her roses useful there (link attached). She lives in Eastern NC, zone 8, and you might well have good experiences in Eastern SC with some of the same roses she likes in her no-spray yard. Specifically, she highly recommends both Souvenir de la Malmaison and Old Blush as favorite roses that are especially easy to grow and good for beginners. Not that you're a beginner, but that ought to be yet another clue that a rose will do well without a lot of fussing over it and spraying. Your list has so many roses that I either have or want that perhaps some that I happen to like might also appeal to you: General Gallieni. Needs room. Lovely fragrance to the attractive red blooms with lighter reverse sides. Can take a bit of shade, like many other teas. Grows horizontally like a rambler the first year, but then grows upwards. Evergreen. General Schablikine. Lovely blooms on an attractive plant that doesn't get as large as many teas do. Blooms that are good for cutting start early and continue into the early winter. Evergreen. Moonlight, the hybrid musk. Nice flowers, good for cutting, flexible stems. It held onto its leaves all winter, in a colder than average winter, and is doing great/blooming now. Very shade tolerant. It was evergreen here in zone 7. Ghislaine de Feligonde. If you have the space for it, this is a worry-free rose that's also shade tolerant. I especially like the looks of its foliage; it reminds me slightly of fern foliage. Our new one (planted last fall) hasn't quite opened its buds yet but it's absolutely covered in buds. Very bushy, but also can be used as a short climber. Evergreen. Crepuscle. We just got this one but everything I can find out about it for NC/SC (and plenty of other warm areas besides) is very positive for use as a short climber for a no-spray yard. Some shade tolerance. Amazone. We just got this one too. It was found in Bermuda, where there is plenty of humidity, so it should do well in NC/SC. If you read Help Me Find on this one, and you'll want to order it. It's pretty vigorous here thus far. Some shade tolerance. Spice. Also found in Bermuda, and new here too. Lion's Fairy Tale. We are taking a chance on this one for no-spray. It's new this spring, but once it came it bowled me over with the beauty of its huge blooms; I'm glad to be taking the chance on it. The plant will stay relatively small and can fit nicely into the front of a large planting. Gruss An Aachen. Our three did extremely well even in an amount of direct sunlight that's less than ideal. They love to bloom from early to late in the season, and the blooms are luscious. Others in other areas of the east coast report problems with disease. Ours did get a little powdery mildew a few times but hosing it down a few times worked just fine. No very noticeable blackspot problems. Ours came from Chamblees and I don't know whether their particular cultivar is any different from others, but we were thrilled with those roses (until they got Rose Rosette Disease so we had to toss them). We are going to replace them with more Gruss An Aachens. Good shade tolerance. Not quite evergreen in zone 7. Westside Road Cream Tea. This is a tea rose found in California that grows slowly and doesn't get large. There are lots of uses for small tea roses, so I hope our new plants do well. They came as bands and are still tiny, tiny, tiny at this moment. Rise 'n' Shine. New here. A heavy bloomer that's a good yellow fading to light yellow; the entire effect is quite attractive. Rose Rosette. A tiny pure pink rose that looks perfect in every way. (Imagine a tiny version of your Belinda's Dream.) Good for cutting long-lasting blooms. David Austin's Mortimer Sackler. No-spray here, though we've had to replace them due to RRD. A delicately beautiful pink rose with some fragrance. Can be used as a short climber and it seems a natural for that kind of use; the canes are extremely flexible. Mostly evergreen in zone 7. Red Cascade. We haven't tried this miniature climber/rambler by Ralph Moore, but I'd like to one of these days if I could find a sunny enough place for it. It looks wonderful to me, though I don't know whether anyone in the Carolinas has tried it. Anyway, Antique Rose Emporium sells it. Best wishes, Mary Here is a link that might be useful: Amy Padgett's roses in eastern NC

Pauline, Not Anne but Lol! I've been doing this for years! I was always too busy w/ kids & such to go around w/ my pruners. The way I do it is to snap the spent bloom right at the neck. I let them fall where they may. From my observations basically what you are doing is not letting the bloom go to seed so the growth hormone is still active within the plant and the new red growth appears where it should have if you would have pruned the spent bloom, to the second or third leaf down? That's where you'll see the new growth. When I have time I go back & remove the "headless" stems. So in a way, it is a quicky prunning & if you are busy, it saves time & you still invigorate your rose to bloom again. I hope this is what you were referring to. Betty:)

Ispahan is wonderful rose. Most years it will stay BS free or get very little BS in no spray garden even under high disease pressure. Give it plenty of space. In my climate this rose can get really big. I try to keep my Ispahan in 7x8 feet boundaries, but it is not always possible. It wants to be bigger. I prune my bush each winter to approx 5x5 and then again after bloom to approx 6x6 and then again in the late summer whenever it is neeeded. It would be wonderful to let it grow bigger, but for me it is placed between other plants so has to behave :). Fragrance is strong and bloom period is long. In my experience it is the best damask for high BS pressure climate. Olga

I have two E de Mouchys,so obviously, I like it. Now, my garden is VERY big, so I don't pay as much attention to individual roses as I should, none get watered after their first year in my garden, either-have to depend on rainfall, which is usually very, very scarce in summer (norm is two-three months of drought, but can be worse),and this year, for example, I was far too sketchy when it came to fertilizing, since I was so busy trying to improve my fencing and battling the wretched badgers. So I can't say how it'd be in more pampered circumstances. The more mature one is getting quite tall-say, 9feet? (HMF says it can get up to 15 feet) and has an average amount of thorns (next time I go out there I'll try to remember to look at it to check this info for you).However it doesn't give me the impression of being a true thorny thug like Laguna has become.It gives me the impression of intending to be a rose that shouldn't be too difficult to train; i.e., flexible,and not full of long,long laterals growing out every-which-way (like said Laguna or New Dawn) I don't remember ever seeing any disease on it at all (I don't spray, and do get p.mildew on a lot of roses), and it did flower for a long time. It's hard for me to say if it was actually "repeating", or if it was just one very long flush, since, because of the conditions stated above,my rose garden is mainly all about the big spring/early summer flush; anything after that is icing on the cake.But it definitely is NOT a strictly once-bloomer, like General Stefanik or Frederic II de Prusse. Flowers are beautiful; like the two-toned effect very much. I can't remember scent, but have a vague idea that there was some.Hope this helps.