Garden Valley Ranch offers quite a lot of them, if you want it grafted. I got a few from Northland Rosarium; they ship bands but the plants grew very well. Last time I checked their inventory they had a much larger selection of Romantica roses.

The Romanticas do well for me here on the So. Calif coast. I grow Jardins de Bagatelle, Peter Mayle, Yves Piaget, Eden, Comtesse de Provence, Johann Strauss, Jean Giono. I'd say most are pretty darned disease-free, except for Jardins de Bagatelle, which seems prone to rust. My Comtesse has issues with its blooms... they tend to fry quickly and sometimes smell slightly of vinegar. Odd, since it's next to Yves, who has long-lasting blooms. Yves will ball if it is rainy as it's opening. My Eden is on the north side of a six foot tall wood fence, conditions which should promote rust at certain times of the year, and it has never had rust (and I'm in rust central). I ditched Abbaye de Cluny a number of years ago b/c I thought it was a lesser version of Just Joey, which I like a lot better. The only one I gave away recently was Rouge Royale, for the reasons folks mentioned above. The person who I gave it to is happy with its occasional great blooms. John, I did not find Yves to be difficult to propagate... I made several cuttings of it a number of years ago. Romanticas are really just HTs. Susan

I grow Lunar Mist next to the cultivar it sported from, Colette. The color of LM is pale yellow; the center tends to be a deeper shade of yellow than the outer petals. The canes are long and lax and have a generous number of prickles/thorns; I always use my thick leather gloves with gauntlets when I need to prune it or work around it. The flowers have a high petal count and are around 3.5 inches across, which to me are medium. It is a very fast and vigorous grower in my garden and repeats well; the canes grow to 10 to 12 feet long. I do recall that Colette, the cultivar from which it sported, had a rather high ARS rating (8.5?). Lunar Mist and Collette have been good roses for me.

I was seriously considering Bolero but read it was subject to rust. That did it for me. I tried several of the Romantica series about ten years ago, but eventually took most of them out. Either they didn't have the health I wanted or they looked very modern in my old-fashioned garden. In my personal vocabulary, 'modern' is only a compliment when it is followed by the word 'medicine'. I do still have two. 'Pierre de Ronsard', also called 'Eden', is tried and true in my garden, and it is one of the three roses my DH Tom particularly admires, and so it safe from the shovel here. It is described as a climber, but I prefer to grow it as a large shrub. He also admires the gallica 'Tuscany Superb' which he encountered in several gardens in England, but which is not a great rose in our climate. As long as it stays alive, I'll keep it for him. The other one is the Austin rose 'Leander', which he greatly admired in Mendocino Rose's garden one year. We now have two, one climbing in the front of the house, and the other climbing on the back fence. The second Romantica I currently grow is new to my garden, the climber 'Polka'. I heard good things of both this rose and 'Colette'. Since I found 'Polka' first, that is the one I planted. Last year it slept. This ought to be its creeping year. Rosefolly