Thanks. Good ol Iphone. I was shocked! The light was just right I guess. I took photos of Orange Mother's Day and Sexy Rexy and there was just no definition at all. I'm crazy about this rose. Can you see the veining at all? I have Honeysweet and Frontier Twirl coming from Roses Unlimited. They will hang out with Belinda and some white polyanthas. Susan

Thank you all for sharing your experiences with Buck roses and enticing me to other varieties. You, evil rose people, you! I am very pleased to hear about PS. As I mentioned, it was an impulse buy and never thought about it or never paid any attention to it. I was so fascinated with the large 4 inch bloom with intoxicatingly sweet fragrance. The bush was in a 2 gallon container and about 1 ft tall. When I go back to the nursery and see the roses, I have a better idea about how they are. My garden contains some Buck roses also - Carefree Beauty, Earth Song, Aunt Honey, and Blue Skies. All the roses are indeed carefree except BS. BS had very strong citrus fragrance and acted like HT, but he decided to not grow.

So that looks like an unconditional "Yes" from alameda for both Prairies Sunrise and Honeysweet, and a "maybe yes" from Michaelg? Thanks for the comments. I asked about these 2 because they're among the shorter Buck roses. Supposedly about 3' tall and not too wide. When I talk about potted roses, I mean 18 to 20" diameter; smaller for some of the minis. 20" is about my limit, because I DO want to be able to move them myself when I need to. Some Bucks I'd love to have but that I think would eventually get a bit too big (at least too wide) include Quietness, Hawkeye Belle, Distant Drums, and Paloma Blanca.

I've grown two of the Vigorosa series from Kordes, Innocencia and Emely. Both were short, very disease resistant and bloomed a great deal. This was in the southeastern US - it's rated to 6b by default on hmf, but may well withstand colder temps, being Kordes. Emely is one, I think that Pickering is phasing out, but I think it's still available from there. I grow Kordes' Cream Veranda and have found it to be very bs and mildew resistant here; very pretty bloom. hmf rates it to 6b but I notice that Celeste in New Hampshire grows it. New to me this summer, but I really like Tantau's Sweet Haze, which has a very pretty single pinkish bloom; Heirloom rates it to zone 5. I think hmf zone rating is in error, 8 to 9. What colors are you wanting?