I don’t have many HTs. I had to look up Poseidon to verify it’s not one.

Sunny Sky is my best. I think it gets a little blackspot lower leaves no spray in Sept. Foliage is nice color; reasonable fruity fragrance. Good flower production season long, though not as outstanding as something like Cream Veranda. Blooms are nice, though I don’t remember if they fade - I don’t think so, or flatten out - they might - with ageing.

Not a wimpy rose at all, even though I planted it (at least 5 years ago) in 100% homemade compost ( 0% mineral soil), which it supposed to doom a rose.

Dee-lish may turn out to be as good or better. I just got it last year, based largely on your recommendation. So far looks promising.

I won't comment as my roses never get BS, so I can't be of help....but I'm going to enjoy hearing about the healthy roses here (and seeing pictures!). :)

Same as Carol. No disease in the desert, so all my HTs are disease free, and they are pretty nontraditional HTs, too. Ascot, Rouge Royale, Abbaye de Cluny, Dainty Bess, Augusta Luise, Twilight Zone, Wild Blue Yonder, etc. Diane

Lots of humidity here in Georgia so roses have a lot of BS pressure. These roses are completely disease free: Sunshine DayDream, Bliss Perfuma, Earth Angel, Dick Clark, Princess Charlene, Mother of Pearl, Kashmir, mme Anisette. I have more but not really HTs.

For hybrid teas I’m gonna add a vote to

Dee-lish and also mention Wedding Bells and Savannah. I’m trying to remember (and I’ve only got one cup of tea in me so far) but I don’t think any of them had blackspot all year, not even at the end of fall.

@MasLovesRoses_z8a GA I'm not into HTs, but I do drool over Mme. Anisette. Plus, if it smells the way the name implies, I'd love to enjoy that fragrance. Maybe one day 🙃

@Mischievous Magpie (CO 5b) I've had a bumpy relationship with the Madame. Her blooms are absolutely breathtaking but she was a once bloomer for me last year. She has gorgeous green foliage that is about 12 feet tall even with pruning. If she wants to be tall, that is fine. I'll give her something to climb on but she needs to bloom more this year or her little diva bum will be out of here. :)

My only disease free (98%) blackspot free hybrid tea is Dark Desire.

Princess Charlene is decent in full sun also but still loses more than half her leaves. Dark desire here never ever has lost more than a few leaves on the bottom until hard winter, but others haven’t had the same luck. Maybe my strain of Blackspot is just different.

I personally just shy away from almost all hybrid teas. Some of the Kordes grandifloras like Madame A and Crazy love do better when it comes to blackspot here.

Earth angel is not a hybrid tea but she is completly clean here.

Francis Meilland. Super vigor, large flowers, absolutely clean and intense fragrance.

Rifis,

I will place Sunny Sky on my future purchase list....had my eye on it for some time, but wasn't sure about its free blooming nature (which some Kordes roses, as robust as they are, seem to lag behind in, stingy with blooms), or its flower form, even though it's registered for exhibition as a hybrid tea. Some so called hybrid teas are not the classic hybrid tea flower form, which is OK in some ways since I don't exhibit, but not others. As much as I like my Dee-Lish bushes(4), the flower form is not classic HT at all at any stage of the bloom's progression. Of course, it is still a beautiful bloom in its own.

Why I'm stuck on hybrid teas, especially new, disease free varieties, is mostly because of their upright, not too pretty (to most people), standing alone, bush forms. Also, the classic hybrid tea bloom form draws me in. This skinny, perhaps unappealing bush form suits my one and only 18' X 8' rose bed design perfectly. Flowers mostly at the top of a columnar bush make the mass effect I am after work best.

Centerpiece type rose bushes, ones whose bush form is aesthetically balanced visually don't work at all. The room they take up, and the flowers sprouting all over the bush, not just at the top, make them poor candidates. All the side blooms are obscured by neighboring bushes.

If you have seen Memorial Day's bush form (which I don't grow because of its disease issues here), very columnar with blooms at the top 1/4, that's the perfect bush form for my rose bed. Although, MD grows too tall at 6+', also.

Thanks for your input.

Moses

@MasLovesRoses_z8a GA Your Madame Anisette is 12 feet tall! Woah. I thought Poseidon was tall for me and he's only 7 feet by the end of summer. I've only had madam Anisette for two summers and now I'm excited. I have her next to a trellis with native honeysuckle so I guess I'll just train her sideways and see what happens.

Only 7 feet? Lol. Sad zone 5 noises.

Moses, do you have Veterans Honor. If is typical Hybrid tea and the blooms last forever.

Kristine, I don't have Veteran's Honor but will research it. It looks beautiful, and flower staying power is always a plus. Thanks for the recommendation.

Moses

Moses, I would only suggest two, but unfortunately, I'm not sure either would survive your winters: Tiffany, and Belinda's Dream (an offspring of Tiffany) are both highly disease resistant. BD is technically a "shrub", but the blooms are classically high-centered, and mostly born singly. I don't grow many modern roses, but I wouldn't be without these two.

John

John,

Belinda's Dream, and I planted a number of them in my garden when I first discovered it some years back, just never thrived for me. It liked to repeat bloom very well, but just did not put on size. Not sure why, but it could have been my winters were too hard on it and come spring, it had to start from such a diminished point that it never gained any headway year by year. Long gone now.

Tiffany is probably one of the top 10 HTs for classic beauty, but alas, it black spots badly here if not sprayed.

Thanks for your valued input.

Moses

Moses, I hate to hear about Tiffany and Belinda's Dream for you, though I suspected one or both might not survive your winters. For me, T is one of my healthiest roses, though I do spray it once or twice...nothing like a "spray program" at all. And BD is nearly spotless here, and quite robust. It just goes to show that a lot of advice is useless if it's not from someone VERY local to you! lol. There are at least five strains of BS in the US. Some areas have none because of climate conditions, and some areas are cursed with all five types. But still, as bad as BS is here on most modern roses, I held out some hope for these two roses for you.

I do hope you find several new roses that suit your needs.

John

I follow @mrs.roselady on Instagram. She had great things to say, in a post today, about Ginger Syllabub and how vigorous and disease free it is. She lives in the very black spot prone Pacific Northwest.

I have a bed a red HTs and accidentally got Dark Desire.

Its completely disease free for me while the others (Oklahoma, Chrysler Imperial, Mister Lincoln, Black Magic) defoliate from blackspot.

The new foliage is a silvery blue and in fact, the canes are purple.

Wedding Bells. It is one of my very cleanest roses and I'm in a very high bs pressure area in the southeast. Surprisingly--considered how big and petal dense the blooms are--I get several excellent flushes a year. Here it is in the middle of October when even my most disease free roses have given up the ghost for the year. Not the greatest picture, but you can see how clean the whole shrub is:

Looking a little nicer:

I should add I do not spray at all for blackspot.

JC,

I think I will give Dark Desire a second try. My first attempt with it ended in a shovel prune mostly because the bloom and foliage color was so dark, it looked like there was a hole in the rose bed where it was planted. Siteing it better may cancel that effect. It sure is a lovely rose.

Thanks for your response.

Moses

subk3,

I have two young Wedding Bells which are showing great promise. Glad I got them. Thanks for reaffirming my adding them to my garden...looks like they will be keepers.

Moses

Stephanie,

Ginger Syllabub is one I had my eye on for some time. Thanks for your affirmation.

Moses

Mine is in afternoon sun only and grafted on Dr Huey.

For color reference, Oklahoma is the dark red to its left in the 2nd photo.

if dianela is experiencing the same level of disease resistence i am, it seems like a good bet.

jc - your DD looks lovely in that spot!!

subk3 - beautiful WB!! Oh my!!

Oursteelers,

Thanks for your votes on: Dee-Lish, Savannah, and Wedding Bells. Planning to give Savannah a second go after seeing a two year bush in my friend's garden this past summer literally blooming like there's no tomorrow. I shovel pruned mine because of the pancake flat full open blooms, but in retrospect I think I was too hard on it for that rather minor flaw. DL(4) and WB(2) are all coming along very well for me.

Moses

Moses, have you grown Memorial Day ? It is one of my best. Huge blooms, fragrance is strong and for me totally clean

Kristine,

Memorial Day is one of my favorites, but alas, it bIack spots badly here if not sprayed. I'm determined to convert my roses to black spot free/minimally effected varieties. I am even planning to shovel prune my Julia Childs because of their black spot susceptibility. That's not easy to do.

Moses

Oh dang! I guess that I am really blessed with low blackspot pressure. I take it for granted and have believed that it is my rose choices, guess not as much as I thought.

If I had to spray I probably wouldnt grow roses. So, I guess that I better not ever move