Sara-Ann, I have both Quietness and Enchanted Autumn. Both of these do quite well in South Florida. I do nt get Black Spot on either and they both have fantastic strong scents. Quietness's scent is a little stronger. You can detect it further away from the plant.

The Buck roses are difficult to find in Europe. I have Mountain Music and Folksinger and photos only of the latter. A fully open flower:

Ours are too young yet to really comment to much on... We have own-root Earthsong & Prairie Harvest... Both rose bushes made it through the first season very well. No issues to speak of yet here in our no spray garden...

Prairie Harvest was from RU planted in mid May of 2015...

Earthsong was a baby Heirloom Roses band planted in mid July...

Prairie Harvest looks like its going to have a lot of vigor...Time will tell...

Earthsong:

This a not so great pic of my Quiteness. I truly love this rose. It has been a hardy and vigourous grower and has had no BS for me so far. I love its fragrance and I know it is going to get better every year.

Not sure that my experience would be helpful but I have had several. I currently have Prairie Sunrise, a full-petaled, apricot-colored rose with nice fragrance which I love. I got it as an own-root bare root 4 yrs. ago. It has survived deer, weather and my own goofs with grace and it continues to thrive. I also have Distant Drums, which came as a teeny tiny little band this spring and didn't even start to grow till I planted it in the ground this fall. This is my second; I lost the first one but loved the fragrance and changeable colors so much that I thought I'd give it another try. I also had Golden Unicorn which I lost to RRD, sadly. It loved to grow and bloom; it was 6 +/- ft. tall and wider than that when I lost it and it had a massive root system.

All Buck roses are not created equal, I'm learning. Some seem to be very tolerant and adaptable, even growing in shade and poor soil. Others seem to want the lower humidity, cold winters, soil ph or whatever else prairie life has to offer that I can't. Some are just plain fussy. Blackspot has not been a serious problem for any of my Buck roses- and I have lost roses to blackspot. While they might occasionally have a touch, they continue to grow and bloom without a care. Since there are so many races of blackspot, I might just be lucky, but I think that many could replace the knockouts that are so popular here. I have no idea about PM or rust since those are a rarity for me. My garden is no-spray, BTW.

Quietness is a wonderful rose. You will love it. It has performed well for me in South Florida, which is saying a lot. Polynaise is also a good one. Good disease resistance with a nice cherry red bloom.

We grow a number of the Griffith Buck roses. Our own root Prairie Star is spectacular for us, producing large (5-6 inches roses) on a 5 foot plant. I saw this at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden around a decade ago, and it was over 6 feet tall. The flowers are an appealing blush pink and have a nice fragrance. A great cut flower.

Quietness (own root; it roots easily!) is a medium to light pink rose that has a tidy bush that can be kept to 4-5 feet x 3 feet. If you don't prune it hard in the winter, it can grow larger. The flowers are similar in form to some of the Austin roses. The flowers are very full, last longer than average on our plants and are around 4 inches across. Nice fragrance also. Excellent disease resistance. This rose should be more popular than it seems to be.

Distant Drums (grafted) is a favorite of my wife, who enjoys flowers with unusual color. This one is colored in soft shades of light brown and lavender, and has a strong myhrr fragrance, which some people find unpleasant, but we like. The plant here is around 4 feet tall x 5 feet wide. The plant is shrubby and is a good landscape plant. Only minor disease issues here. We saw a huge bed of this near the parking lot at the American Rose Society in Shreveport around 7 years ago, and it was quite spectacular.

We have recently planted 2 own root Enchanted Autumn plants from Chamblee's around 20 months ago. We had to move them from their original planting site as they were not getting enough sun. Consequently, the plants are not as large as they would have been had we not moved them. So far they are shy bloomers, but that may be due to the fact that they are expending more energy to develop a larger plant. In cooler months, the flowers are more full of petals and are quite appealing. In the heat, the petal count goes down and are not quite as appealing. We will see how this variety performs in 2016.

We received 8 cuttings of Prairie Harvest in a rose cutting trade with a GardenWeb member in Texas around 5 years ago. Virtually all 8 of them rooted (!) and grew into vigorous plants that were around 5 feet tall x 4 feet wide. The foliage and stems were a bright green and disease free except in late fall. The soft yellow flowers were fragrant and around 4 inches across. We fell out of love with this one, as it was occupying too much real estate (30 foot hedge) and not as spectacular as others we wanted to grow, so we removed them all and gave them to the neighbors.

Thank you everyone for the helpful information and beautiful pictures!

I only have Distant Drums. To me, I got THE Buck rose to get me going with some of his roses. I enjoy everything about it. Quietness is on my list for this coming spring.

Thank you Ken and Beth. Your pictures are beautiful, Beth!

Here's a tale of two roses, Distant Drums, own root and grafted.

I grow a grafted DD in New Hampshire (z5). 60 miles away in a coastal Mass. town, (z6) my Mom had 2 own root DDs. Similar growing conditions, rich soil, full sun, plenty of TLC, although no winter protection other than snow.

One of Mom's roses was lost during the first, relatively mild winter. The other has never made it past about 2' tall, dies back to the ground every winter and weakly recovers, producing very flimsy canes. It gets a few blooms late in the summer, never very full.

Mine is snow line hardy. Some of the thicker, stronger canes will survive a bit above the snow line. It quickly recovers and reaches about 4' each summer. The growth is sturdy, bushy, forms a nicely shaped shrub with good foliage. The blooms are lush and full. I get several good flushes a summer.

I have Folksinger. It grows to about 4.5 feet in my south central Massachusetts garden. I bought her own root probably about 12 years ago from Heirloom. She blackspots a bit later in the summer but has wonderful repeat bloom. I'm ordering a couple more this year since she's so trouble free. Quietness has beautiful blooms and a nice scent but never seems to want to grow in my garden. She's 4yo and has yet to be 2 feet tall and maybe flowers twice.

'Carefree Beauty' is extremely drought resistant in southern California. Beautiful flowers most of the year here (when watered). Nice hips. Slight touches of mildew, no rust. Can't speak to black spot. I'm actually growing it in a bed that receives no water during the Mediterranean-climate summer drought and it's fine altho it doesn't appear to like growing in winter (may prefer warmer temps). Very little sunburn on canes in spite of the harsh conditions.

Nate

In all these years I still find it amazing how different rose can be for every one. Can add a couple.

Folksinger own root grew and flowered beautifully here. She mildewed some awful thou and was shovel pruned.

Quietness own root was very healthy. Had good flowering and strong scent. I moved it after a few years and that plant had an enormous root system. Rather like that of a large shrub that been in the ground for eons. Light pink is not my favorite color. So since she was a Jb favorite. I eventually got rid of it.

Distant Drums if I remember correctly was own root. Got lots of black spot and not vigorous. Read as thin canes and short. Shovel prune in 3rd year.

I'm trying 2 more this year Prairie Sunrise and Carefree Beauty. Really counting on these two maybe a pep rally when they come.

So far, no one in a cool climate has brought up the possible variability due to so many of the original Buck roses being distributed with a virus.

I have Carefree Beauty but didn't realize it was a Buck rose. I obtained it a year ago as a 2-gallon own-root but I'm a little disappointed that it hasn't grown more. I haven't really allowed it to bloom but it hasn't put out many new leaves either. As with so many of my other roses, it's a case of wait and see until spring.

I have several Buck roses and they do fairly well for me. My favorite is Quietness because it blooms so much and the blooms are always gorgeous!

Beautiful, Seil. These pictures are exquisite.

Thanks again everyone. Lovely roses Seil.

Hardly anyone talks about Prairie sunrise and I don't know why. Out of the 15 or 20 Buck roses I grew it was my favorite. Beautiful fully double bloom, lovely apricot color, very fragrant, frequent bloomer, always healthy and it stayed about three feet tall and wide.

Roselee, Prairie Sunrise does look like a lovely rose. I noticed Kes said they had it and like it. I'll have to check out the availability of that one. Thanks for sharing your experience with it.