Thank you for posting, I'm always delighted to see an Old Garden Rose grown where I might not expect it to be growing. I visit the home gardens of vintagegardens.com every year, and they sell the original form of "Anna Olivier" which has apricot and buff hues. You might e-mail and ask if they will have it for sale later this year, as they rotate their inventory of roses for sale, during each year. vintagegardens' "Anna Olivier" is the most strongly scented Tea rose I've ever smelled, with a deliciously heady blend that includes ripe stone-fruit, Damask rose and mixed floral scent notes. I blush to say that I crave the fragrance of "Anna Olivier" as if it were a drug. Lux.

If it were me, I would mix in a touch of black kow into the planting hole and mulch well. I would not put fertilizer in or on them. I would let the plants establish themselves before using fertilizer. Also, if it were me, I would work on adding organic matter to the beds and let the plant work off of that. Just my 2 cents! Good luck and have fun~ jenn

Here is my revised list: Revised 'Old Garden Roses' for Small Gardens Dream List (08/21/2013) 1. Autumn Damask (Damask ancient) (gets big but I like it. I have to figure how to use it. I like this rose because of its rose history) 2. Boule de Neige (Bourbon, 1867) 3. Honoraine de Brabant (Bourbon, age unknown) (gets big but I like it. I have to figure how to use it) 4. Maggie (Bourbon found 1980) 5. Souvenir de la Malmaison (Bourbon introduced 1843) 6. Madame Cornelissen (Bourbon introduced 1860 to 1869) (Thank you Ingrid_vc for the suggestion) 7. Beauty of Rosemawr (Tea, 1903) 8. Westside Road Cream Tea (Thank you Luxrosa for the suggestion) 9. Captain Harry Stebbins (Hybrid Tea discovered 1980) 10. Devoniensis (Tea, Foster 1838) (Thank you Ingrid_vc) 11. Francis Dubreuil (Tea 1984) 12. Comtesse du Cayla (China 1902) 13. Fabvier (Hybrid China before 1929) (Thank you Luxrosa for the suggestion) (does it have a fragrance?) 14. Green Rose (China prior to 1845) (I like this humble rose) 15. Old Blush (China Hybrid, 1852) (I like this rose because of its rose history) 16. Fritz Nobis (Floribunda, Shrub 1940) (not a OGR; gets big but I like it. I have to figure how to use it) 17. La France (Hybrid Tea 1867) 18. The Doctor (Tea Hybrid, 1936) 19. Marchesa Bocella (Hybrid Perpetual, 1842) 20. Barbara's Pasture Rose (Hybrid Perpetual, found rose) (Thank you Rosefolly) 21. Enfant de France (Hybrid Perpetual, 1860) 22. Duke of Edinburgh (Hybrid Perpetual, 1860 to 1869) 23. La Reine (Hybrid Perpetual, 1842)

I've never looked up my sunset zone before. I see I'm in zone 39, interesting! I think my advice, besides what you've already mentioned, Lynn, would be to give them space. In my lust for more roses I crowded mine together and regret it now. A lot of mine are tied to trellises so they don't cover neighboring roses and they can't become the robust shruby plants they should be. And be patient. I've found that the Austins and OGRs take time to establish and build up they're structure before they really start to strut their stuff. It took at least 3 years and sometimes 5 before they really gave me those big beautiful displays of blooms. Oh, and easy on the pruning. Let them just grow the first few years and don't prune them at all except for dead wood. After that you can shape some but don't whack them back. I thought they needed pruning like my modern roses but they actually don't like being pruned much. When I stopped pruning them like HTs in the spring I found out they bloomed way better for me.