(I was waiting around to respond so that someone who knew what they were doing could post a follow-up.) Now my two bits worth. When I had a greenhouse and did propagation experiments for my amusement I found that often I had better results starting woody cuttings when the plant was dormant. I never tried roses, hence my hesitation.

elanalv, you might want to post your question on the Antique Roses forum. This sounds like a similar question posted recently, and you may have a noisette, flowers range in size. There is also a "Rose ID" forum. If you want to post pictures, try using photobucket.com. Create an account (it is free, they don't spam), upload your pictures. Once you upload, under each photo will be three boxes. Copy all of the text in the box marked "Tag" and paste that line in the "Message:" box here on the forums. Your picture will appear.

Wait until you've gone through a plague of locusts. I've lived through a few 17 year cicada hatches in my lifetime. Not as bad as some of you have described but the sound of them singing was deafening some nights. Still, that was part of growing up in the South so we never knew any different. Still, the cicadas didn't really bother plants, to my knowledge. It was the grasshopper (locust) hatchouts that did that. Rhonda, I can't believe what you're saying about the mayflies and the plows. Wow. And I thought FL had bug problems! The closest I've seen to that is when we had a bad red tide and they had to bring in front end loaders to get all the dead fish and seaweed off the beaches.

I'm seconding Mrs. Dudley Cross- practically no prickles, the pink shading on the outside rather than the interior, the nodding heads and the open growth pattern. The burgundy stems are gorgeous! Also that it grows like a weed and thrives in neglect. I had mine in an atrium because I read it would be about 4'x4'. It ended up about 12' tall and 9' wide.