Hi Seil - I can totally empathize with your resolve to grow more sustainable roses that don't take pampering, and some day I might follow your excellent advice. Not that I pamper mine much (no spraying of anything), but I deal with a lot of wimpy divas and knee high roses that bloom once in a blue moon too, not to mention an average of 15-20% rose death over the winter.

My response to your overall priorities of health, rebloom and hardiness is a mantra: once bloomers, Canadians, Lim, Kordes, and Buck. The latter (Buck) is the iffiest one as far as health goes - Earth Song and Quietness are very healthy and great rebloomers but his lavenders and speckled roses (like Spanish Enchantress) leave some considerable room for improvement. Prairie Sunrise, Honeysweet and Prairie Breeze also grow and bloom reasonably well for me and are hardy to zone 4. I agree that Prairie Princess is exquisitely hardy, but it doesn't rebloom particularly often for me - maybe two and a half flushes. There are fabulous roses from almost every type of rose class if you want to deal with the trial and error (even teas if you believe that Francois Dubreuil is actually a tea), but it sounds like you want to be done with the low percentage success choices. Sadly, not everything Palatine sells is hardy in our zones, since they're also trying to market to zone pushers like me that don't mind some fussiness. Still, they're a pretty good bet of HTs and floris to try if you really want to keep that class, and if you stay with show roses that might be something you want to consider.

I agree with Mad that Kordes HMusks can be quite hardy, though I've had mixed results with some of theirs (I simply cannot get Kordes Moonlight to survive for me in any circumstances). I do agree that the Pemberton HMs are too unreliably hardy for what you want - I can occasionally get Prosperity or Nymphenburg to survive but even Cornelia that's much older doesn't bloom often. In the photo below, the reliable Hms are Heavenly Pink, Petite Terre de Franche and Guirlande d'Amour. Wilhelm blooms nearly all season and is a plant it and forget it rose along the lines of Darlow's Engima - both are in the shot below (DE is center-left in the back), Wilhelm is the red to the right of the photo, and he's as close to a true red as OGRs get for me.

Stanwell Perpetual has survived one winter but is MIA so far this year and at best isn't cane hardy for me. Baronne Prevost is quite hardy but I almost never notice it as it really doesn't rebloom well for me, and neither do the rugosas except the very excellent Linda Campbell (also red). Even Therese Bugnet is sadly a once bloomer and it took 5 years for her to even bloom that much for about 2 weeks in prime real estate. My favorite and TOTALLY cane hardy hybrid perpetual is Sydonie. It wants to ramble in part shade for me and can bloom off and on all season. I think it's supposed to have some scent, but I can't detect most rose scents. Here he is trying to take the stage away from the hybrid musks (put him about where the yellow edged hosta is in the above photo):
I agree with Moses and Pat that Little Pink and White Pets, Marie Pavie, and Aunt Honey are pretty reliable bloomers for me, and that Jacques Cartier is lovely but unreliable rebloom on its own roots. My tried and true nonstop bloomer along those lines though is Bonica - it's virtually unstoppable and has sort of cuttable flowers, though it's better as a bush. Mine looks this virtually all season even in part shade (it's trying to eat the fence to steal more sun from the other side):

If you want a striped rose, I'd go with Stars and Stripes Forever or Rock 'n' Roll or Fiesta as a better bet than Ferdinand Pichard - I've only just gotten a FP to survive in my third try. Tausendschon is a good thought and if you're thinking once bloomers, Veilchenblau has decided to eat my oak tree in very poor conditions and is rock solid hardy to the tips. It has a good 4 weeks bloom from beginning to end for me, May into June. Fair warning, this was last year in its third year and mine is already appreciably bigger than this with no signs of stopping, though it doesn't seem to sucker like Gallicas:

I've not been able to overwinter Cecile Brunner in any of her incarnations over many tries, and Perle D'or survives but is unimpressive and a short poor rebloomer for me, like Summers found. Pat's suggestions of the Kordes roses are entirely consistent with mine, and any of hers would do well with little care: Dark Desire, Savannah, Karl Ploberger, Summer
Romance & Beverly. In fact, beyond Blue Moon, Elegant Fairy Tale and Kordes Perfecta, I can't recall a Kordes rose that isn't robust, hardy and a good rebloomer. The newer ones have some scent and sound very promising. These are your best bets if you want to maintain your show quality blooms with a minimum of effort. A random sampling of these follow:

Cream Flower Circus (also Floral Fairy Tale and Champagne Moment are excellent) for a short constant bloomer:

Dark Desire - quickly becoming a favorite rose - he wants to get tall and lanky.

Sweet Jane was from Palatine a few years ago and it puts out a lot of blooms, some of which are HUGE. I don't think my hand conveys the size of this one.

Like the Kordes roses, I can only think of a handful of Lim roses that wouldn't meet your criteria of hardiness, health, and rebloom. Paint the Town, Yellow Brick Road and Grandma's Blessing were unreliably hardy, and Sunrise Sunset and Kashmir are so far unreliable rebloomers. Beyond these, virtually any of the Easy Elegance Lim roses would be fabulous. My favorite is always Sweet Fragrance below, but I have about 25 of these roses and they're all reliable and trouble free, mostly tip hardy.

Of course, the Canadians are a sure thing, and certainly for a climber Quadra blooms year round. I used to think most of the Canadians tended to be once-bloomers (not a reason not to try them, as Mad says), but with time Alexander Mackenzie, JP Connelle and John Cabot have started to rebloom a few times and I suspect more of them will follow suit. Here's the array of Canadians, focusing on AM & JC, but more are also in this bed:

Bottom line is don't let your reluctance to fuss any more limit you on growing roses, even the kinds of roses you like. Make a preliminary list of keep vs. toss, a preliminary list of new ones that appeal to you, and we can throw in encouragement or cautions. You are an exquisitely skilled and knowledgeable rose gardener, so you know what you'll like and have a good idea what's achievable in your zone and yard. We're happy to help, but you know best what you're looking for. All we ask is pictures in return (and not to leave us here on GW).

Cynthia