All need spraying with fungicides here to keep leaves. QE is a classic that should be in all gardens if you can stand a big bush and you're willing to tolerate spots. Eden is a once bloomer and gone. Mary Rose is a nicely floriferous shrub, but spots like any modern HT without fungicide. Abe Darby is beautiful, wonderfully scented, and BIG. He also needs spraying.

I thought Sunsprite too because HMF days it had ruffled petals but I'm not sure. None of their pictures have exactly the same form. It was the only one of this kind that I saw and was next to the old garden roses, not with the other tea roses. It is smaller and more compact than the HT roses I have grown but others on here have much more experience with a much larger selection so you all say it is a HT, I trust your judgement. All the buds are single. It is a very pretty plant. I pulled off the bad leaves and it still has plenty of healthy ones. If I get a chance this weekend, I'm going to go back to the store and see if I can find out the name.

Hi Oliver, I see on your list lavender, purple, orange and yellow roses, so I am not sure you are asking me for suggestions of similar color roses or compact roses of other color? Not sure of your other preferences such as fragrance or growth habit, or what you already have in your garden. Below are 3 roses that grow well in my garden and in case you don't have these yet: I have David Austin's Munstead Wood (own root), which is a burgundy color rose in cooler weather and deep magenta during the summer. It almost look dark purple during the spring and fall. It is compact, about 3 x 2.5 feet, very floriferous and disease free in my garden. I did not spray it at all. The bloom size is probably about 4 inches. The fragrance is remarkable. Own root grows slower than grafted, but if you get it through David Austin, Regan or Alden Lane, they will come in own-root. It is best for the front of the border. Below is a picture of one of my last bloom of the season, on the 18 December 2018. I am not sure if you want to consider a white rose, but if you do, one that flowers a lot and stay very compact is Bolero. It is also disease free for me without the need of spraying. It tends to grow slow, and is no bigger than 2 x 2 feet after 1 year on the ground. The fragrance is remarkable. It seems to prefer flowering constantly rather than growing. Here are couple of pictures: If you want to consider pink, I really like David Austin's Princess Alexandra of Kent. I won't say that it is compact, and its grow habit is very "relax". However, the blooms are fragrant and gigantic, on average between 5 - 6 inches. About 4 x 4 feet in my garden (own root also). It flowers freely and is also disease free for me without spraying. Here is a composite of several pictures:

All I can contribute is that Blessed Child is not one of the HTs that is tolerant of cold zones. She repeatedly didn't survive even my virtual zone 6, so she's probably only zone 7 and warmer. That's not an issue for you in the South of course, so I'm no help with your OP questions. Cynthia