Try Pat Henry at Roses Unlimited. She had several of the Generosa series. Trish

Sorry...me again. Kate...I wanted to ask you about the color pink of Viking Queen. From the picture I saw it was hard for me to determine the color. In the first pic I saw, she looked salmony pink, but in a picture I saw later she looked like a true, rich pink? Not that it matters, cause either way she is beautiful, but if she was salmony like the first pic; then I think she would look great with Morden Blush, but if she is more pink, I was wondering if she would look better with Rose de Rescht? Also like Compassion's color with Morden Blush...oh the pressure...lol! Terryjean...Camille Pissaro is really unique and very pretty and I'm thinking it would look great with the Dublin Bay climber I was first thinking of. I really need a bigger yard...lol. Again, thanks to you all! Eileen

Kate, that's very common thing, it seems. I'm also very sad because there are dozens of excellent DAs I simply cannot buy anywhere in Australia, because they're not introduced here at all. And only few nurseries grow latest introductions (which are excellent and far superior, btw). American market is much better in that regard, whilst in Europe you can buy them all. So, whom to blame? Best place to buy roses is Europe, and everything else is pale in comparison. But even outside EU you'll find many problems obtaining roses from France, Germany or UK. Strict import laws and many other reasons prevent us from growing and enjoying some great roses.

So you def love Awakening! Do you have experience with New Dawn? I don't know if I'd pick Awakening again because I think there are better roses out there, and she is so very thorny. OTOH - she's healthy, doesn't black spot, and doesn't require much intervention on my part. I think I might just get a welding apron and some leather gloves though just to make pruning her easier. I don't think I'd have it on a porch if I had children, so now the pain she inflicts is more of an amusing novelty for visitors. On still another hand, she has a good fragrance (Apples) to me and since that and blackspot resistance are my two biggies she's been a good rose. As to rebloom I haven't found this rose to ever really stop and it has a good flush in the spring. I do not really keep up on deadheading, really I just rip old roses off as I walk by. If I had to pick again, I might go with a rambler in that spot and weave in a different climbing plant for later flower. An additional consideration for me was winter hardiness. I live outside of Phila in the last bit of zone 7a, and, in my opinion, we still get the occasional zone 6b winter. May of my other plants are protected by a long hedge which I've found further insulates my plants and helps maintain the temperature in the rear garden but the climbing roses climb above that protection. I'm not a woman who will go out and bury my rose canes in the ground (I have a fig tree that's on its own in the winter some years we get fruit, some years it regenerates from the base). So in additional to all I've written above I also wanted to consider a tough plant that would shrug off ice storms and the occasional freeze to 0º.