I'm not sure why you cross posted in the Landscape Design forum - your question really has nothing to do with design :-) I hope someone in the Antique Rose forum responds, as those folks really focus on growing roses....almost to the exclusion of any other plants - and will address suitability and disease resistance for your area.

Thanks very much -- yes, the cross post was an accident :(

Houzz checks boxes when you are posting a question as 'suggestions' of where else to post it..if you don't uncheck the boxes they will cross post. Its kinda weird but hey, you never know, maybe someone in the 'suggested forum' will learn something lol. I know I've clicked on things that seem out of place just due to curiosity and learned something.

Ha ha maybe we should all cross post to a bunch of other forums, maybe more people will learn about OGR's.

I've only the grown the ones you have already grown on your list :)

The only rose I have grown on your list is Duchesse de Brabant. I am not sure I would use it for a cutting garden. It is a lovely rose, and I would not be without it, but the blooms do nod. Photo of mine below. I do use nodding tea roses in bouquets - I use rose bowls, and put them up high. Just wanted to warn you in case that was not what you had in mind. Another tea rose whose bush growth is much more upright, and whose blooms do not nod as much, is Rosette Delizy.

Jackie

gardengal, very few of us grow roses, almost to the exclusion of other plants. Most of us have a variety of companion plants since nothing but roses can be very boring.

lavidalilly, I second Jackie about Rosette Delizy being an upright rose with sturdy petals that look fantastic in a vase, alone or mixed with other roses. Another good contender is The Faun with prolific pink old-fashioned blooms on a healthy bush. Bishop's Castle, another Austin, has beautiful and fragrant deep pink blooms that last well in a vase. It tends to get long arms but I get around that by cutting far back into the bush when I cut roses or deadhead. Another very floriferous rose for me is Souvenir de la Malmaison, which in my very mild climate blooms practically all year. La France is a short and manageable rose that has beautiful and fragrant flowers.

No need to take offense!! I only suggested that the OP would get much more specific information from the rose forum than she would in landscape design. Which is where her post appeared for me.

Cross posting between the Garden Web gardening forums is very confusing and not at all helpful to the original posters. This is a Houzz feature that really should be reconsidered and dropped!!

Thanks!! Ingrid, I am planting SdelaM along a fence, and looking forward to that! Jackie, thanks so much for the info, and, having seen your pic, I do not think I can live without Duchesse de Brabant!! I may move it to another location though, so it's more present to me in the landscape.

No offense taken just saying what Houzz does lol. I agree the feature is annoying as are some other features lately.

See if you can dig up local information on Duchesse de Brabant. I seem to remember teas not working in NoVa. You may find that Mme. Isaac Perriere is too much of a battle with blackspot, but since you are obviously going to be spraying it might work.

Hi lavidalilly, can't comment on most of the roses you intend to grow, with the exception of Abe Darby, which I find excellent for cutting. I also enjoy cutting Munstead Wood and Gertrude Jekyll -- both of which have fantastic fragrance. The downside to Munstead Wood in particular is that it has a lot of thorns, but the blooms look great in a vase. Eden lasts well for me in a vase. I've recently planted Paul Bocuse, which is reputed to have a very good vase life, and have Versigny on order for the same reason. Other modern roses I am growing for cutting include Princess Charlene de Monaco, which I have only had for one year but am happy with so far, and Evelyn -- for which I have high hopes. Marie Pavie is a great rose for a cutting garden, since it has a real will to bloom, has a wafting fragrance, and its small blush-white rosettes go with so many things in an arrangement. In fact, if there is one rose that I can say with conviction that I will always grow, it is Marie Pavie. Have you seen Fragrancecutter's thread on roses for cutting on the (non-antique) Rose forum? Probably you have, but if not, it is a great source for ideas!

Oh, and Jackie, that Duchesse de Brabant is just... wow.

I grow Mme Isaac Pereire, Mary Rose, and Marchesa Boccella which is sometimes sold as Jacques Cartier.

Marchesa is my absolute favorite with only occasional black spots, very floriferous and reblooms reliably.

Mary Rose reblooms a few times in my short season. I love it, though you might want to plant this rose in a protected area because, like many DAs, its petals can drop quickly if it's windy.

I have MIP for just one year but the blooms are so gorgeous that it's becoming a new favorite. Mad-gallica is right about black spots, but it has such a beautiful color and scent that it's worth spraying. It needs some space. Mine already grew a few feet long canes which I planned to peg had it not been for rabbits who ate most of its canes as they did with about a dozen of other roses I planted last year. It broke my heart but I think MIP will bounce back, it's quite vigorous.

I don't cut my roses but I imagine that all three should give very fine cuttings for bouquets.

Thank you so much everyone!!! I have placed my orders!!! I will have: Abraham Darby, Heritage, Spice (from ARE; maybe Hume's Tea-Scented China?) Souvenir de St. Anne's, Quietness, Golden Celebration, Wollerton Old Hall, Mary Rose, Sharifa Asma, Falling in Love, Electron, Jacques Cartier/Marchessa Bocella, Raspberry Cream Twirl. These are going into raised beds (one is about 65 feet by 3, u-shaped, and two that are 12 x 4), and there will be companion plantings. The shorter beds will have a rose at each end, and lilies (maybe peony too) in the middle, with other companion plants throughout (I'm thinking catmint, pinks, scabiosa, maybe mint, maybe marigolds). The longer bed will also have companion underplantings. I'm definitely open to suggestions about companion plants :)

You might want to skip mint as a companion plant; it spreads very, very aggressively. If you must have it,you could try planting it in a buried pot in the hopes to contain the roots a bit.

Other companions: Stoke's aster, penstemon Dark Towers, phlox Blue Paradise, verbena Homestead Purple, hardy geranium Roxanne, dusty miller esp. Powis Castle. Catmint, pinks, scabiosa, all good!

Nooo mint. It needs to be planted only in a concrete urn set on a large paved area!

Thanks! Yes, even though it is a raised bed, I will keep mint in pots elsewhere.