If they can handle full sun here in Florida, I'm sure they can in you location. The only one I grow on your list, however, is Buff Beauty, and it does geat here. The blooms get smaller and paler here in July and August, but they do continue to bloom. Are yours getting enough water during the hot months?

FYI, Laguna, Tradescant, and Graham Thomas are all modern roses - not antiques. I think they will all do fine, with the caveat that you will have to give them a lot of water when it is hot in the summer.

Jackie

Lilyfinch thank you! I grew Buff Beauty in PA, too. There, she bloomed at the beginning and end of the summer. I am hoping to get a third flush from her here in NC. I don't have many pictures yet, but I will share what I have (if I can figure out the new layout now that gardenweb is part of Houzz). If this works, one of the pictures is one I took yesterday that shows how big and brambly the roses got after only 1 summer. The other is a Buff bloom (she had some buds when I brought her back from RU). Sorry about the blur, I took these with my iphone; I will break out the real camera when the roses start blooming this summer.

Floradarosez9, I hope I did give them enough water. They are in the path of the runoff from the house when it rains, but we also have fairly sandy soil so the runoff doesn't stay around long. I did mulch with newspaper and shredded cedar, so it should have at least stayed damp as long as possible underneath, and we got plenty of rain last summer. Thanks for the reassurance about Buff Beauty; at least that's one that should be ok.

Jaquilline9CA, you're right, only some of the roses I mentioned were really antiques, but those where the ones I was most worried about, although I love the Austins too. Thanks for the reassurance that they should do fine!

Lois,

I live near you and grow three of the roses you listed: BB, MIP, and GT. The south side of our house is without question the harshest spot on our property. If your situation is anything like mine, I can understand your concern! It bakes over there and is much much drier than anywhere else. If you feel confident that your soil is amended well enough and the roses are getting enough water, don't worry about it. Neither MIP nor BB bloomed their first year after being planted in the ground for me. If your GT is own root I wouldn't be surprised that it didn't bloom either.

Of the ones on your list, I grew MIP, GT and BB in my Memphis area garden, along with many others in full sun and they all did beautifully and I was farther South than you. They should be fine.

No one mentioned feeding them. It wouldn't hurt at all to give them a little fertilizer in the spring, summer and early fall. Also give them a little time to get a good root system. All of my OGR's took a couple of years to start blooming. They get better with time.

If MIP is like her lighter sport Mme Ernest Calvat that I grow, then I wouldn't expect her to bloom all summer in any spot. Mine gives good early summer and fall flushes, but just a few sparse blooms in-between. She doesn't like to bloom when it's real hot.

More modern roses such as BB, GT, and Tradescant I would expect to repeat more frequently once they have matured if they are well-watered (and fertilized, as Ken mentioned, though I don't fertilize in fall here -- just spring and a boost in summer for the remontant ones -- because new growth is more winter-tender in these parts).