The only one I can comment on is Claire Rose. Mine survived the big Easter freeze of '07, but it took it hard. Last year it just started to bloom again, but only a little. It did put on some good growth. I just pruned it today, and it looks promising with plenty of new growth and hopefully plenty of flower buds. The flowers are a pale pink, and prior to the big freeze they were fairly large. I think the David Austin catalog online has pictures of it. Here is a picture of it before that big, bad freeze. I hope this gives you an idea what it looked like, and hopefully my plant will look like this again in the not too distant future.

HMF lists only Hortico for North America... Here is a link that might be useful: rebecca claire @ hmf

I can see why you are contemplating it as a climber! My poor sad one would have been about third of the size... I grow all my roses in pots- If I want to encourage them to bush out, produce more canes, perform better or decide to give them a last chance before putting them in the green recycle bin, first thing I do is repot them into something bigger (if they look dry, I try to soak them for a few hours in water first). then fertilize. I use Sudden Impact for roses. Its not cheap, but its definitely worked on a lot of my roses. Although now its heating up here, the whole new growth getting burnt crunchy is becoming a problem.. Btw, your fence looks exactly like the one that my landlord and next door neighbour conspired to put up here hehe. Sure, it looks nice, but I liked my old one better..could bang as many nails in that to fix bits of chicken wire and plastic trellising as I wanted...

vaporvac - I've had 2 Cloud10s. The first one was so wimpy with tiny little flowers and never climbed. The second one started out the same but I fertilized it more and since it never stopped raining last year it seemed to like that better and actually put out several 5' canes. It does not BS at all! The flowers hang on a long time but they will get dirty looking with tons of rain. But it has very little foliage and I cannot detect any fragrance. I put it inside an obelisk and I think I should have wound the stems around the outside and it might look better. At the time I was thinking deer protection since they were roaming the gardens all night but they reached right in and helped themselves.