be nice if you showed us the house .. if you want us to opine if a certain plant would work there...

and while your at it.. where are you.. z6 is about half the US.. and wildly divergent ... big city name ...

in my MI... im not sure .. and to be sure.. i once had a collection of about 150 roses in my BACKYARD ... but im not sure i would want them out in front of the house ... though the flower pop.. and blow your mind.. otherwise.. roses can kinda be ugly bushes ... needing lots of pruning.. etc.. not a project i would want out front..

ken

I grew Golden Fairy Tale last year as own-root and it had ugly bush shape (irregular and thorny). It didn't survive my zone 5a winter in poor drainage clay. Julia Child floribunda at nearby rose park looked much better than my Golden Fairy Tale.

Golden Fairy Tale is a Kordes rose and Kordes tend to get large & leafy with less blooms unless one has good rainfall. If you have lots of rain, then Golden Fairy Tale would be better than Julia Child. If you have drier climate, then Julia Child is better looking.

Dianela - unbelievable beauty!!!

Thank you Carol! The kordes tend to do really well here, I guess we get lots of rain.

I like Kordes roses the best. I second Bordeaux cityscape. it's done well for me.

In front of the house, I would definitely prioritize disease resistance over everything else. Without leaves, any rose will look bad. I grow double knockouts and I think they look great. I have smaller roses in front of them because they tend to be more tall than wide.

What color knockouts I was looking at the pink and Peach but I feel like I need color out there

Pink double knockout is really pretty. I think the doubles are more attractive than the singles in the knock out series. I've also had tremendous health with pink drift and red drift.

I like the blushing knockout roses they're beautiful so are peachy:I was looking for yellows instead. I do want to add color like pinks and purples:I can't make up my mind which drift I want I also love the at last roses. I think in drift I would plant Peach or Apricot.

Since your original idea was to plant hydrangeas, you should know that panicled hydrangeas/Hydrangea paniculata should be fine in sun in zone 6 as long as they have adequate water. They won’t be blue, but most go from light green as they start to open to a creamy white to various shades of pink. Depending on the cultivar, they start blooming from late June to late July, and here in central NH bloom until frost. Height ranges depending on cultivar, starting at around 4’ and ranging up to about 15’. some cultivars such as Quickfire have lacier panicles and stiff stems that never droop, while others have very full panicles such as Limelight.

This is a current photo of my Quickfire which at 12 years is about 7-8’ tall. It has some of the laciest flowers.

On August 12

Labor Day until frost it is a rich rosy color in my garden and doesn't seem to change or fade for several weeks.

I have researched panicle hydrangea. When I spoke with some local nurseries they had told me they might work but my best bet would be the lime light. While they're beautiful I am not looking for white or green. I checked out tidbits which I liked more than quick fire:however I do not want red in the landscape

If you don’t want pink, green or white, the panicled hydrangeas aren’t for you. I just mentioned them because youbrought them up. They make great hedges and are really long blooming.

Yeah I love

White Knock Out is the most well groomed looking rose bush that I know of. No special trimming or pruning is needed whatsoever. It tailors its growth itself by being bred to do it. An annual spring pruning just to invigorate new growth and remove the oldest/dead canes is all that's needed. No dead heading needed either, all season long.

A hedge of White Knock Out would not only be elegantly dramatic, but be almost effortless to achieve. Normal rose bush water and fertilizer needs, as in all other roses, are the only essential ingredients needed to achieve your success.

No spraying for disease or insects is needed.

A runner-up to White Knock Out is Pink Double Knock Out, Vaporvac's recommendation. It's a beauty that's less tailored looking than White Knock Out, but very eligible as a hedge in its own right.

Blushing Knock Out is very informal in growth. Its open growth habit with canes terminating at varying heights on the same bush is the rule. The cupped blooms are beautiful. A hedge of it would be nice, but look a little sparse , IMHO.

Moses

I would not use anything seasonal as the main plant for the front of my home. I want the front of my home to look decent 12 months a year- I have guests in January just like high summer and I expect my house to look good in the winter just like it does any other time of year. And it's for ME most of all- when I pull into my driveway I want to feel "I LOVE my home" not "Oh crap this is a disaster, I can't wait until spring."

I'd use a base structure of conifers and broadleaved evergreens and save the seasonal bloomers for accent areas.

Why choose a plant that looks nice two weeks a year for the front of a house? The blooms on roses may look nice but the plant itself is no showstopper and could be generously termed unattractive 48+ weeks a year. Even the longer blooming Knock Outs are ugly plants when not blooming. A hydrangea 'hedge' would look marginally better but still, only blooms once each year and would be nothing but bare bare sticks all winter long.

So why?

Make a GREEN setting and use bloomers as featured plants in small groupings, pools, pots, or vignettes. That's how I would do the front of a home.

Mine are double red. I planted them like 15 years ago and they were the best KO at the time IMO. If I were to plant today, I think I would still plant double red. It goes well with my house colors. I recently planted a coral KO. The colors are pinkish orange. I think it looks good. I planted some Drift Peach in front of the double red. Perfect height. They seem to look good together IMO.

Could I plant drift or carpeting roses infront of other roses also what color are driftroses?

The Drift series has about a dozen different varieties including yellow. Each Drift variety has a different growth habit and a different flower form. The different named varieties of Drifts not only have different colored and shaped blooms, but varying growth patterns, from more upright to more spreading, all specific to each variety. What unifies the Drift group is their short stature, small foliage, disease resistance, and small, no dead heading needed flowers.

They all are perfect front of a rose bed plants, hiding the 'naked ankles' of the taller roses growing behind them. Their relatively low thorn count, at least for the three varieties I grow: Popcorn Drift, Sweet Drift, and Apricot Drift is much appreciated. Dead heading is not mandatory for repeat blooming, but does make the bush neater and fresher looking, and causes quicker repeating, IMHO.

Of the three Drifts that I grow, Apricot Drift stays the smallest and grows the most upright. The blooms are heavy petaled. In my garden a mature bush gets to be 18" tall by 20" wide.

Sweet Drift is very heavy petaled, with distinct quilling of the petals as individual blooms age. It has a more spreading habit getting about 18" tall and 30" wide, but the width can be easily controlled to less width if desired.

Popcorn Drift is my favorite. The 12+/- petaled blooms are cup shaped, starting off yellow then age to white, lasting a long time on the bush before getting tired looking. The bush itself is very nicely shaped neither very spreading, nor very upright, perfect, to my way of thinking being 20" tall by 24" wide.

Moses

My pink drift is more upright and very bushy and rounded. My red drift has a tendency to Spread out

So drift roses will grow different? Has anybody tried rose bonica?

It's an older shrub rose from Meilland, taking the rose world by storm at its introduction. The blooms are very pretty, smallish, and abundant. The bush itself can get big, easily 5'X4'. It's disease free.

Moses

Has anybody planted music box roses? Do they grow like a shrub or hedge?

I view all monotone color as kind of dull without some flowers. Give me beautiful blooming hedge or flowers that last 4-5month periods.

I honestly think the OP should really look into some other plant for the project.

Could we see a picture of the area that is under consideration? It's hard to imagine what you are going for without seeing The space. I don't see anything wrong with using roses in the front of the house. Many people here have them in the front of theirs, including myself. You could use some sort of Viburnum as here are many of those that do well in the sun and look beautiful with roses fronting them.

There's a beautiful rose named our lady of guadalupe,does anybody know how tall they get,could they be trimned?

The caramel and florals fairy tale roses,if you've grown them in nj(zone 6b),how disease resistant are they?