I am not familiar with rose experts/ rosarians doing house calls, especially right now... I have witnessed a lot of people getting very useful help by posting images of the issues their plants have, and seeking advice on this forum, especially from members who garden in So. CA.

Thanks Sheila! Houzz was not working earlier and posted things a few times. There’s more pictures on the other thread.

Garden Roses LLC 5" quart pots, own root, lots of older David Austin roses https://gardenrosesllc.com/ I don't know how good they are, but once I get my order in Spring I will let you know. A note to add about Breck's and Spring Hill: they stand behind their warranty and don't make you jump through hoops for it, which I very much appreciate. And they both have great sale prices at least a few times every year. Michigan Bulb, they also stand by their warranty. I haven't ordered from them in a long time, but they are who I ordered my first roses from in 2006. All of them lived and most thrived and I was a complete gardening noob at the time - this was my first plant purchase ever. I bought a few hybrid teas (I didn't even know what that meant back then) and a rose mix which included a green rose and and a red rose (both the red and green were mini's but I didn't even know what that was at the time). The red one is the best groundcover rose I have ever had. Always in bloom, true rich Valentine's Day (the holiday) red, super healthy, and true groundcover that spread low and wide. Now that I know a little about roses I know the hybrid teas were grafted, good size, and healthy and if I had known more about caring and pruning roses back then they probably would have thrived. @BenT (9B Sunset 14) How is your Buxom Beauty? Is it healthy? Does it bloom well for you? Are the blooms as large as some people say?

The beauty of it is you can do whatever you like. Try one thing, morph to another, create your own style etc. I put in our rose garden as an experiment. Had a bed that was overgrown with trees and large bushes. So thick you couldn't walk in it. There were rocks in the base but you couldn't see them anymore as it was so over grown. We pondered what to do with it and decided to try roses. They worked out spectacularly. If I'd known they would do so well I would have probably done more of a formal style. But I am very happy with what we got. The plants are all healthy and put on a nice display without much work. Sometimes there is a rose that I don't like for whatever reason and it gets given away and replaced with another (my husband hates this as he is the one that has to dig it up). We also put roses in various other parts of the yard, some rock, some mulch. For whatever reason they do not do well in mulch in our yard. So we have moved some of them to the rock bed and abandoned the holes. Here was yesterday. Sorry for the picture through the window screen. This was it last June. The idea was that you could walk down a curved path in the middle. The Love Song (small purple rose front and center) was originally a yellow Golden Wings. It got big really fast. After I planted it I saw a mature one at the Denver Botanical Gardens and knew we would have to take it out of that location. Ended up giving it away because the flowers were beautiful but decimated by Japanese Beetles every day so there was no pleasure in it. Sally Holmes which is the white low growing shrub at the center back is the same way (eaten so quickly). But it is failing due to it's persistent lack of obtaining size. I had originally put three of them back there, thinking they would create a wall of white as a back drop to the rose garden and they don't thrive here. We should probably take that out also. Dainty Bess, mid way back on the left is also eaten quite quickly. But it is so pretty I've left it. However I could see putting in something like Moonlight Romantic in it's place.