Sorry I don’t grow any stippling roses. The closest I can suggest is a stripped raspberry cream twirl. It has good disease resistance to blackspot ( which means it doesn’t get naked without spray), even tho it can get some bs at the end of the season.

I had Country Music a pink stippled rose by Buck.... it was healthy for awhile, but it died from nematodes here in Florida.... other than nematodes it was very healthy... no blackspot... I had Enchanted Autumn (not stippled) but great scent ... very little bs.... it /too died from nematodes.... I have Quietness.... and it is actually own root too but still managing to keep the nematodes at bay even though she gets a little bs... I would love to have some of Buck's other roses but would like the to be on fortuniana or I might go with your choices.. I love the looks of his Gee Whiz..... as for health I think Buck has some of the best roses to keep diseases at bay .... but they are hard to find on fortuinana.... I do have Distant Drums on fort and he is a great rose! I wish I could find Grace Note or Incredible both stippled on fort.

Good luck

Hi Dianela, your raspberry cream twirl is beautiful! Unfortunately I don't have space for a climber. But I wonder if I can grow it as a tall shrub. Are you in 7b? How tall does your raspberry cream twirl get?

Hi Sharon, I'm so sorry you lost your Country Music :-( The pictures on HMF are so pretty - just the kind of pink I like. One interesting thing I noticed among those pictures is that in some pics the stippling is so subtle that the overall effect is a rose of solid color. Do you happen to know what factors influence the stippling?

Would you consider to grow some of these stippled roses in large pots to avoid the nematodes problem? Pat from Rose Unlimited has a lot of them on her list. Very tempting.

linc1164, if I remember correctly temperature made it change the stippling.... but I can't for the life of me remember which season makes what what...... since it bloomed all year here in Florida I remember it definitely had a season where it was more pronounced.... in fact it was one of my first roses and I remember it changed colors on me and I thought "did I buy that".... then I said ok I must have.... and then later on it changed back and I thought I had lost my mind.... then realized when it changed again ah ha.... weather must be affecting it......

Yes, I am thinking of getting some from Rose Unlimited..... to start in pots...... but eventually I will be putting them in a NH garden..... so I am trying to get something this fall that I can grow them a little bigger before I move them....... At least that is the plan......

Not moving, but doing some landscaping for my mother-in-law.... she loves my rose garden so I am excited that she asked me to help her..... now I can plan on putting in things that don't do well here......

What are stippled roses? I found Buck’s ‘Country Music’ on HMF and it looks like a normal pink rose to me. What am I missing?

Hi Stephanie, stippling is kind of like speckling of colors. If you look up Spanish Rhapsody on HMF, the stippling is a lot more pronounced than some pics of Country Music shown on HMF. The color contrast on Spanish Rhapsody between the speckles (pink) and the base color (apricot) makes the stippling really stand out, while on Country Music, the stippling is more muted and subtle.

The petals of some stripeys also have the beautiful stippling effect. Dianela's raspberry cream twirl is a good example. The first time I saw stippling was on my miniature moss rose Kim Rupert. So pretty! :-)

So is the Gallica by Paul Barden ‘Song of the Stars’ also considered to have stippling with its spots? This one is so lovely!
https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.37541.1

Hi Stephanie, I think I would call Paul's Song of the Stars spotted, mottled, or dappled. The examples of stippling I have seen (by no means comprehensive) in roses entails finer sprays of speckles. Dave's Garden gave the following definition for stippling, " The term stippling or stippled, in botany, describes dot-like patterns produced in nature on the flowers of certain flowering plants. These naturally occurring dot-like patterns usually occur on the base of the flowers petals and the sepals. " Stippling in art means to cover an area with dots. So I think we can say there is quite some overlap between what one would call stippled or spotted.

Be that as it may, like you said, Song of the Stars is a gem. I've acquired her a few years back. Her bloom is gorgeous!

She has such magical blooms! Gallicas aren’t well suited for my climate, but I adore seeing pictures of this one. So it sounds like stippling is used to describe the more subtle little lines and speckles. Not bold stripes and spots. I like the term :-)

I just came across this blog discussing Gee Whiz and Incredible, two stippled roses by Buck. Is Kansas humid? these two are reported to do well there. https://kansasgardenmusings.blogspot.com/2013/08/gee-whiz-thats-incredible.html

Hi Stephanie,

Thanks so much for bringing that blog to my attention! I have forgot to check that resource. The blogger ProfessorRoush's climate in Kansas can be humid, but I believe the absolute humidity there is lower than what NJ experiences in spring and summer. In addition, I believe the strains of BS in KS are different than what they are here. I have planted roses which have done well for him, but their BS resistance in my garden isn't something to write home about (Quietness and Iobelle come to mind). But the fact that both That's Incredible and Gee Whiz fare well in his garden bodes well for Spanish Rhapsody, since all three are siblings. Plus, in another blog, he provided the ranking of his Buck roses regarding their BS resistance in his garden. On it, Freckles, another stippled cultivar, was reported to have 0% BS in June. So I may need to just try one or two in my garden and see how they perform.

--Lin

Stephanie, I don't know about Kansas being humid, but my guess would be yes.... it is next to Missouri which was where I grew up. Missouri can be hot and dry (from winds), but it can also be humid.... I now live in Florida zone 10 in Palm Beach county..... when people say "oh how humid it is" -referring to Florida- I laugh.... they really don't know what humid is.... Florida does NOT compare in humidity to Missouri.... I have spent many days cutting weeds out of my father's bean fields as well as other farming task.... NOTHING is more humid than Missouri when it decideds to be humid.... but that being said, a dry hot wind can brown a cornfield in a day when it comes.....

So do these roses do well in humidity?

Hi Vapor, I really can't tell if these stippled Buck roses will do well in general, since everyone's sense of being in a humid area differs greatly. Without knowing the relative humidity, as measured on a hygrometer, I find it next to impossible to translate how well a rose performs from one humid area to another. ProfessorRoush reported in his blog that That's Incredible and Gee Whiz did well for his Kansas garden. So that's positive points for those two rose. But like I mentioned in my reply to Stephanie, in the past, I have noticed roses that have done well in his KS garden performed poorly in mine. Iobelle was reported with 0% spotting in June in his blog. But it consistently defoliated almost completely in my garden that I SP'd it after 3 years. The lack of translatability could be from differences in humidity, or from the possibility that we have different BS strains altogether. So the only way to know is for me to actually give the roses a try. So there is another couple of roses for my list for next spring :-D!

We run 65% - 75% humidity on average. 65% at night and higher in the daytime. This is without rain when it really gets going to almost unbearable. I still work in it. We are in a river valley that retains humidity. I'm with you though! Experimenting is the best way! : ))

Your humidity ranges sound like ours Vapor! During spring time when the BS spores geminate, this sort of humidity is really agreeable to them.

I need to decide which one of those stippled Buck roses I want to try. Ratings on HMF for these roses are averages of few votes, which aren't fair representative. Because Pat from Roses Unlimited carries all four potential candidates (Freckles, Spanish Rhapsody, Gee Whiz, and That's Incredible), I may ask her to recommend the best performer based on her personal experience.