I used to grow George Arends. For me it was much like a hybrid tea, including the pointed centre, just larger in all it's parts - a very nice rose.

Baronne Prevost is a keeper for me. Also Barbara's Pasture Rose, a found clone of La Reine.

Colleen

Lynette, it may or may not be helpful to you, but Baronne Prevost is one of the few HPs that has done well here, year after year.

Here, it grows as a lanky climber, but the blooms are beautiful, and it is resistant to rust and mildew. We've had it for the better part of 20 years, and since it is completely trouble-free, it will probably always be here.

La Reine.
The one I bought many years ago rusted to a fare-thee-well at every opportunity.
The one I collected in an old cemetery rarely rusts or mildews, and is dependable as all getout.
The other rose I have, SAID to be LR is "Barbara's Pasture Rose," from the Sacramento City Cemetery.
It is even better than my cemetery La Reine -- and bigger in every part.
In fact, despite the attribution, I keep wondering if it could be the La Reine seedling, 'Louise Peyronnie.'
The link below is to my Barbee Plot 'La Reine,' taken a bit over a week ago.
Catch the nice big ripe hip. :-)

Jeri

Here is a link that might be useful:

Years ago I had Henry Nevard. It was on the lanky side, but it did reasonably well. I now have Eugene Furst and Arrillaga. Eugene throws long canes and doesn't bloom much; rebloom is a fantasy. I will probably get rid of it. Arrillaga has large, silvery pink flowers that leave you begging for more. It is a once-bloomer here for me. I think it likes cooler temperatures. It may be fine out there. My best hybrid perpetual as far as blooming is Fisher Holmes. It is a very large plant and blackspots badly, but it blooms all summer and into fall up until frost. It is blooming when nothing else wants to. When it is fully loaded, the fragrance will waft through my kitchen windows. In truth, sadly most of my HPs are functionally once-bloomers. They are just as pretty as any of my other roses, but they just don't repeat like they should.

If by some chance you did an order from Vintage Gardens these are the hp's I would order.

Monsieur Boncenne, dark near purple blooms with a lilac outer edge on the bloom. Five feet tall and only three feet wide, decent rebloom in the fall.

Panachee d'Orleans, light pink with darker pink stripes on a cupped bloom. Very good rebloom through the summer, not always in bloom but enough to enjoy till September.

Robert Duncan, medium pink blooms with a nice damask scent and almost always with a bloom all summer. Will get somewhat wide compared to height but a great rose.

Sachsengruss, aka Marchioness of Londonderry, a great medium pink hp that has one of the nicest sweet scents in all old roses. Looks like a hybrid tea but more branched and the rebloom is very good. Can get seven feet tall but is not a real wide bush.

Sydonie, a short and wide light pink rose with a scent to die for.

Vicks Caprice, light pink flowers with stripes of different shades of pink stripes mixed through out.

All of these hybrid perpetuals can be grown here with no spray at all if you want to do it that way.

I have rooted cuttings of Mons. Boncenne if they do not die in our current deep freeze.

Lance

Lots of info from you all. Better than reading a book. As I garden In canada, I am reduced to either Pickering or Hortico. I wish I could order from Vintage but alas...

I have two that are in part-shade and are happy in their spots: Souvenir du Dr. Jamain, a rich deep red, and Sydonie. The rest seem to need full sun.

While these two are not on your list, they are two excellent performers; Madame Boll and Marchesa Boccella. You may already have them, but as they perform so well, it was worth mentioning. The rebloom is very good. They are both in a lot of shade, so I really should expect less bloom, but they always exceed expectations. I do not spray and these two roses are fairly disease resistent. Even if Mme Boll gets the occasional bout of black spot, she recovers well and quickly.
Joanne

Mrs Baker is my sentimental favourite ... 7 summers and 7 winters in the back north gardens and still blooming, looks very close to a portland - only at Pickering. Finally obtained one of it's parents from Petrovic Roses.

Tried many different HPs in the past, but from your list only Baronne Prevost,Henry Nevard and La Reine. I tried them for 3-4 years and then removed due to BS problems. They all requered regular spray program here. Still have Yolande de Aragon, just can't make myself to part with this one. The fragrance is too good and the bush is so vigorous, it is not just a piece in my garden, it is my garden. In my climater HPs will repeat, IF you supply a lot of water. I discovered that this is really critical for HPs and long cane Bourbons repeat. If you water them deeply at least 2-3 times per week, they will repeat here. As soon as you stop watering, they shut down.
Olga

You know, I had not thought about the particular need of HPs for water --
but that makes a great deal of sense.
THANKS!

Jeri

I find most HP's don't like my garden, but a few stand out as quite a bit better than the rest. I would not go without the following:

'Reine des Violettes'
'Baronne Prevost'
'Sidonie'

and possibly 'Mrs. John Laing' as well. I grew Mrs J. years ago and it was wonderful, but I don't currently have one :-(

'Arrillaga' would make it onto this list as well, if it 1) bloomed more often and 2) wasn't such a lanky, shapeless plant that makes nasty, fish-hook covered whips that grab and tear.

'Frau Karl Druschki' would also be on this list except that I think it is ill placed in the HP group; it behaves like an older HT. It is an ideal shrub that makes a shapely bush, blooms in flushes throughout the Summer as long as it gets watered, and the blooms are perfection every time. It does have one other drawback though, and I consider this to be a major one: no fragrance whatsoever. If you are going to adopt a sampling of good HP's then get ones that have the fragrances the class is renowned for.

I also love 'Souvenir du Dr. Jamain', but it must be grown in partial shade or it won't prosper. It is also rather stingy with bloom after its first flush, much in the same manner as 'Guinee', but the color is as rich as you can imagine.

In that same dark rich crimson/maroon color range is 'Emperor du Maroc', which in my garden is a spectacular showcase for all three of the major fungal diseases. To be avoided IMO, unless you care to spray it with multiple fungicides from March till October just to get a fleeting glimpse of one or two perfect maroon blossoms. Surely it must perform adequately somewhere in the world, or it would never have made it to market.....but not in my garden.

I also wish 'Paul Neyron' and 'General Jacquiminot' had done better than they have, but both languish and underperform for me, in spite of protection from diseases. The same can be said for 'Eugene Furst' at the moment, but I think its having a bad time in its current location, so I hesitate to be critical of it till I get a plant going in a more suitable location.

Regards,
Paul

Paul, Mrs. J was a bad ruster, here. I wish it were not so.
She was once highly recommended for SoCalif, so perhaps there were more
resistant clones a hundred years ago.

Souv. du Dr. Jamain did not thrive here. We DID have it in semi-shade,
in a barrel. The blooms were lovely enough to break your heart (and
fragrant enough to heal it).
When we finally gave up on him, we found that he had very extensive
root gall (I am 100% sure he came with it).

Gen. Jack was a pile of mildew here.
Too bad.

Paul Neyron -- We tried 2 different clones -- one with a clear 19th-
Century provenance. No matter where placed, they rusted with a
vengeance.
There is a very good clone of PN in the Sacramento City Cemetery.
It is clean there, and in the cemetery where it was collected as
"Dr. Kelly." I'll just enjoy him there.

Jeri

Thanks to all of you I can now make my list. I do have Frau Karl Druschki which is a good one, also Baron de Bonstetten a once bloomer in my area, John Hopper another once bloomer, Anna de Diesbach a good one, Enfant de France the best repeater in my garden, Ferdinand Pichard repeats and does well, Mme. Ferdinand Jamain a disaster. So I shall try Arrillaga, Baron Prevost, George Arends and a wildcat called Jean Rosenkrantz. Jeri spoke of "a clean clone" and I think where and whom you buy it from is important. And if I was more real, then in my no spray garden , it is not the place for Hybrid Perpetuals.

My experience with Hybrid Perpetuals:

Paul Neyron - quite a bit of blackspot. About half the spring blooms ball on me, and are therefore wasted. Typical HP plant habit (i.e. non-bushy). Doesn't bloom a lot. However, when it's good, it's really good. Blooms make incredibly beautiful & memorable cut flowers.

Archduchess Elizabeth d'Autriche - a great hybrid perpetual. Rarely mentioned, but one of the best roses in my garden. Lots of blooms for an HP. Not as long & lanky growing as some HPs, more compact. Blooms are nestled right on top of great & unusual foliage.

Reine des Violettes - a very special rose for it's excellent and consistent fragrance, gallica-like bloom form, interesting & changeable color, and the rarity of thornlessness.

Randy