Ratdogheads - my Henri Matisse stays between around 3-4 feet in a mostly sunny spot, but might be a little larger in a full hot sun location. Suffice to say that planting it behind my Champagne Moment was not one of my brighter ideas, and it involves some judicious pruning to make both of them visible. Redwolfdoc - welcome to the fun of rose growing, and always feel free to start a new thread on a topic where it might get more response. I checked the website HelpMeFind, a TERRIFIC website for roses and well worth the optional membership fee, to look up Blue Angel. Both the regular and climbing versions of Blue Angel appear to be on the edge of reported hardiness for our zone, but those are default ratings so not anything to discourage you. If that rose has survived your winters, that's already a good start. Blue Angel cl. is reported to only bloom on old wood, which means that it won't bloom well if it has to regrow from dying back to its roots or graft each year, which is typical of some types of climbers that survive but don't thrive in our zones. Still, 3 seasons is still way too soon to make a judgment about a climber. They tend to spend more time than non-climbing forms in putting down roots and preparing to make their moves, so if it grows some or is at least green and healthy-looking in the active seasons, you might give it some more time. In my world, alfalfa hay or pellets is always a good thing to add to a rose to boost its production a bit in spring. To give you perspective, my Madame Isaac Periere - that is definitely hardy in my zone - was unexciting and unremarkable for 3-4 years while it was putting down roots. Then last spring in its fifth (?) year, it absolutely ate up every rose near it and was stunning in the spring. There's a standard rose wisdom that for roses, first year sleep, second year creep, third year leap. For climbers, you have to give them another year or two of creeping or sleeping before you get leap years. Hope this helps, and welcome to GW! Cynthia

All you need to know is, "the delbard rose" is another class of roses. You've got David Austin roses - which usually associate with "English" roses. Here, the Delbard roses - associate with the "French" roses and is bred by the Delbard family. There are about 3 main groups of the Delbard roses: 1) "The Delbard Painters Collections" Most roses in this section are named after some famous painters like Henri Matisse, Camille Pisarro etc. The flowers tend to have stripes - which does in fact looks like it has being painted on. 2)Delbard Couture Collection - don't really know much about them. All I know is, they don't have stripes, and the colours of the flowers tend to be dazzling. I'm thinking of getting Carmagnole - a new 2007 release. 3)Delbard Grand Parfums Collection - here you have strong perfume roses such as dioressence, souvenir de louis amade etc. Again, no stripes. 4)Delbard Rose de Libertie Collection - no scent - but masses of bloom. ie. paris 2000. This is Carmagnole - from the Couture collection - new release.

Cette rose à un coloris vif à l'ouverture... je confirme pour avoir été séduit par ses folles nuances qui évoluent et son entêtant parfum d'agrumes. Les roses sont grandes, aux pétales découpés. Le rosier est bien florifère et sain. Amitiés, Ghislain.

I missed out on General Gallieni, but to console myself, I instead picked these up at The Celebration of Old Roses: --VINTAGE GARDENS-- Alexander Baronne Henriette de Snoy Belle Isis Cary Grant Gribaldo Nicola Marina VID Mme E Souffrain Mme Lucien Duranthon Old Master VID Orange Velvet --TOM LIGGETT-- Beautiful Blanche "Fay Wolfe" Happenstance Parfum de Blanche Patty Click Red Planet (Precious Platinum ?) --HERITAGE ROSE GROUP-- Arcata Pink Globe Excellenz von Schubert Jude the Obscure Lady Hillingdon, CL Lordly Oberon Mlle Franziska Kruger Miriam Wilkins Rush Sally Holmes Souvenir d'un Ami R. californica X R. eglanteria R. banksia normalis 'single white'