Egads, I take it back, it's right there on their site. Sorry! See you there maybe...

Oh! How exciting!! I missed a rose sale similar to that here in Dallas and was just sick about it.ð«ð«ð«ð«ð«

I have been waiting for ages! I cut my list down and still managed to end up at $800......so I am sleeping on it to see what else I can cut. In my basket right now I have: Winter Sun Valencia Tournament of Roses Tineke South Africa Rosanna Poseidon Red Intuition Red Riding Hood Queen of Hearts Pomponella Pirouette Peaudouce (aka Elina) Nahema Milestone Mellow Yellow Martina Mondadori Laguna Kosmos fairy tale Kordes Golden Gate Jasmina Ivory Tower Ingrid Bergman Ilse Krohn Superior Harlekin Grande Amore Golden Fairy Tale Friesia Florentina Floral fairy tale Elegant fairy tale Dutch Gold Cinderella fairy tale Brothers Grimm Berolina Ascot Anne Henderson Aloha 49

For fragrant, hardy, disease resistant, repeat blooming roses, rugosas are a good place to start. Rosa rugosa has a delicious clove scent. I like the species selections Rosa rugosa Alba and Rosa rugosa Rubra as much as any rugosas, but there are many good varieties. Yes, the otherwise estimable roses from Agriculture Canada are not known for their fragrance. Many of my best "Landscaping shrubs" Seafoam for example, also lack fragrance. After this, it tends towards onesy-twosies. Jacques Cartier is an all around excellent rose. Large, very full flowers are powdery pink with an excellent wafting fragrance. Foliage has excellent disease resistance. I really don't know a so-called hybrid musk that is both hardy and fragrant. I have a feeling if I continue looking I will find one, but this is hardly a recommendation. Will Scarlet is an excellent rose, though mine is not fragrant. Hmm. I guess Darlow's Enigma is listed as a Hybrid Musk. It is cane hardy for me, and very disease resistant. It is a big horse of a rose. In a garden of large roses, Darlow's Enigma might be the champion of biomass. It blooms in large clusters of small, pure white, nearly single flowers. Each flower is punctuated with a brilliant boss of stamens. The fragrance is excellent and carries well. It has the best repeat of any rose I grow. The foliage has an elegant look to it, different from most of the hardy roses I grow. This rose may be hard to find commercially, but it is easy to root from a cutting. Among "Modern Shrubs", most are over-rated here in our wet zone 5. Some Austins are very good, with Heritage and Lilian Austin being two of our best. Heritage is a shell pink, with an excellent Lemon Zinger fragrance. Lilian Austin is an interesting color, sometimes brick red, sometimes tomato soup, sometimes a perfectly acceptable pink blend. I'm not sure I like it, but it is an excellent performer. Some Buck roses are OK. Earthsong has been our best performer of the Bucks. In terms of pure hardiness, it is disappointing, but it grows back more vigorously than most. It is very floriferous. The flowers are a good pink. It has a sweet fragrance, underlaid with an enticing pungence. Get some good, reliable roses in your garden, then you'll be free to experiment. Others may know other good ones. I love my repeat bloomers, but most of my best roses are once bloomers. Few if any repeaters can catch up to what these roses do in their season.