The only white DA I have is winchester, I agree the blooms are not huge but it flowers so well and has many other redeeming qualities. I have been tempted by the others as well.

I think Claire Austin blooms are bigger than Tranquility. But I have these two roses only for one growing season so i cannot be sure if Tranquility bloom size will catch up.

Glamis Castle has very nice white blooms. Fair Bianca is another great white Austin. Both of these have a myrrh scent.

Susan Williams Ellis is a fabulous, heavenly scented rose. I'll try to post a photo of mine tomorrow. It is covered in blooms. My Claire Austin also has bigger blooms than Tranquility, so far. I have only grown Tranquility for one season, though. I've grown Winchester Cathedral and Snow Goose for several years, and while they are good roses, I see Susan as the best of the bunch.

Can you compare Susan William Ellis to Winchester Cathedral? Im in zone 4, looking for hardiness, good repeat, large blooms and bs resistance!!

Sorry. That's a crappy, distorted photo from my phone.

I have grown Fair Bianca for quite a few years. The Myhrr scent is very strong. Although considered shrubs, the plants are really floribundas in my garden.

I have 3 bushes in a cluster now and they grow about 3 1/2 feet tall in my Zone 5b garden. They don't get full sun, but seem to do OK anyway.

Winchester Cathedral is the white sport of Mary Rose, and blooms and grows pretty much like the sport parent. Fair Bianca is exquisite but fragile. IMHO, strictly for pot growing in any zone colder than 6a. The flowers are smaller than those of WC.

SWE has rather small blooms for a David Austin. It's not a terribly exciting rose for the size and form of blooms, but it's a reliable bloomer, seems to always have at least a few blooms at any time. The pure bright white is particularly eye catching. The petals are rather delicate. I have not had balling, as in failure to open fully, but rather poor rain resistance, the blooms can turn to mush. In my extremely blackspot prone climate I've seen absolutely no blackspot. It's an upright shrub with many slender twiggy branches, covered with numerous small prickles. Mine have been very hardy, losing only the tips that were new end of season growth.

i also grow Fair Bianca and know of others who grow it nearby. Funny that folks have such mixed experience with this rose. Mine are in full sun, look pretty much like amei2nals pics. They've been hardy enough, and simply gorgeous. I do need to spray mine for blackspot.

For sort of whites, I grow Crocus and Lichfield Angel. Crocus is bullet proof hardy for me, pretty good with blackspot, blooms are large, pretty, don't shatter quickly, don't droop. Bush is compact and well balanced in shape. It blooms In flushes, pretty good repeat. Lichfield was new for me last year, growth was broader than tall. i pinched most of the blooms for the first year, but I will say that I already like the blooms and the bush better than Crocus, just a matter of taste, but to me it's more graceful.

Thinking about what I just said about these roses. SWE and Crocus are excellent roses and I should love them, but I merely like them. Fair Bianca makes me swoon; she's probably not nearly as good a rose, but I overlook her faults, sigh...

Ameri2nal the Fair Bianca in the last picture, is that one plant or those the three bushes planted together? They look fantastic. I am zone 5b as well, and that picture makes me want to add it to my order. Question is, to get that full effect is it one or three plants? :-)

A new white that may be here next season. Desdemona said too be very disease resistant. Rather looking forward too this one.

I have Glamis Castle, The Swan, Pat Austin and Lichtfield Angel. I do however live in a very different climate from you. Glamis Castle is very floriferous but tends to ball in the rain and fry in the sun. It remains a smaller shrub and has a soft pink tinge. I grow both Pat Austin and the Swan as climbers. The Swan has smallish blooms with an exquisite frilly shape and occasionally turns more yellow in the sun. Flowers last for a long time. Claire Austin is still new to my garden but I love its pure colour (it also has an occasional but less pronounced yellow tint. The flowers are medium sized and shatter after about 2-3 days but very elegant - I wanted it for years! I bought Lichtfield Angel (the newest addition) on the spur of the moment (Wanted Wollerton Old Hall which is not available here) without expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised. Strong stems, the biggest flowers of all my white Austins and a quite long lasting flower with good health up to now. It is still quite young but I have high expectations from it.

Ameri2nal, are your Fair Biancas own root or grafted? The wimp I had in CA never got bigger than 2' and was a martyr to mildew. I have wondered if that particular cultivar might be better grafted than not.

L G, I am so glad to read that someone is still growing The Swan! I thought mine was both unusual and attractive I also like the discreet charm of The Nun.

mcnastarana-2-3 1/2 feet is about as high as they want to go, mine are own root from Roses Unlimited at least 10 years ago.

Marcindy-That's one fair bianca, that was planted in full sun. I just took a picture of the 3 of them now, they are planted (in part sun) in a triangle (2 along the rocks, and 1 by the stake) with some soon to be moved overbearing Regal Lilies staked at the apex of the triangle. They are planted about 16 inches apart. The rose at the bottom right is not part of the FB group. I bought and planted a few Regal lily bulbs a few years ago and let them go to seed. Now I have volunteer Regal lilys peppering the bed. Those 3 stems were about 6 foot tall and really dominated the fair biancas.

Thank you so much for taking those detailed pictures. I think I will give Fair Bianca a trial in my garden.