I love Barbra Streisand for the heat. I think it looks different enough from Fragrant Plum and heat doesn't phase it at all. Amazing fragrance and nice big blooms great for cut flowers. Shiny green foliage.

Diane easily talked me into getting Love Song too tho. :)

Chrysler Imperial handles the heat better than Mr Lincoln in my area. Both are lovely tho.

I don't do yellow so I can't comment on St. Patrick. Hopefully you're getting some of this rain we are getting to make the digging easier! :)

Mr Lincoln wasn't so good for me by Disneyland. I prefer Firefighter or Chrysler Imperial. If you don't have Pope John Paul II that has done very well here. I have Neptune and like it. The one that really blooms here is Memorial Day and for a fragrance rose, they last well as cut flowers.

For a red, I really like Ingrid Bergman. She has withstood some really hot, dry summers. It's amazing.

Unfortunately, my St. Patrick next to it, didn't make it, but it was a young own-root plant. If I try it again, I would grow it in a pot until it got bigger before putting it next to that stucco wall.

I had a wallflower die next to my stucco wall, jasminerose, and that is good advice.

I'm in the SFV (10a/20) and Mr. Lincoln has never been a big winner here. A few (huge, magnificent, fragrant) blooms in the spring, 1 or 2 in the fall, and that's it. I prefer Oklahoma, even though it does tend to fry when we get over 90. The growth form is graceful, the fragrance is to die for, and the blooms last a long time indoors.

If you are looking for yellows or blends, I recommend Gold Medal and Granada. These have been the mainstay of my front yard for some years now. Almost always blooming.

Apricots do well in our climate. DA's Tamora is as good as the two HTs I just mentioned.

Good luck!

If you are looking for a purple red rose that doesn't fry in the heat, and would like an Austin, try Munstead Wood. Mine is next to a white wall which faces west and reflects the hot sun all afternoon. We get over 105 to 115 during summer on a regular basis for several weeks at a time. While not blooming as prolific as in the spring, he still blooms nonetheless. I don't bloom as well during that kind of heat either.

I cannot recommend a yellow as I don't grow any. They fade in two seconds in the heat to white (at least the ones I have tried). Folks state that Julia Child does well for them during the summer, so perhaps someone else can chime in on that one.

Those roses that I have that are lavender that do well, are minis, so again, I can't recommend something. May want to check out a non-mini rose from Ralph Moore. His nursery in Visalia where he bred his roses gets hotter than 90's in the summer (90's are a rare, cool day here from May through October). His roses are great. He bred for health and then beauty. His striped rose (a large mini), Peppermint Parfait, did nothing but bloom all summer long and it was a first year own root. That rose is such a keeper! A little beauty!

St. Patrick is a heat lover. It was bred by someone in far inland Southern California--a hot area!