Thank you very much for your interesting suggestions. I will remember to look out for these roses this summer when I visit gardens and nurseries with big collections of modern roses. Interesting to see the parentage of some of these roses. Curlydoc - I really like the fragrance of Peace too - not strong but delicate. Interesting to see that it gets more pink hues in intense sun/or heat.

I have one final rose suggestion to make. I love the little Tantau floribunda "Bernstein-Rose". Only a few roses stay within their predicted size here. Most get much larger, but this little rose has stayed well within your 3X3 foot limit. I have three B-R, two of which I positioned slightly down the slope from my monster Julia Child roses which grow on each side of the ascending sidewalk. The B-Rs look like the little children of Julia. So cute. Their color is just a slightly brighter yellow than JC. The only downside is a very mild to no fragrance. In my pic, you can just see the the edge of a mother Julia above the valerian, while in back of B-R is a Ballerina. By the way, I'll trade you 10 days of your rain and humidity for ten days of 98-100+ degree dry heat, NO blackspot whatsoever, but only 4.46" precip in nine months, and as a bonus--drumroll...my water bill! (no takers, I'll bet). Diane

I don't know if it's tall enough for you, or if it's a color you'll care for (it tends to be something one either loves or loathes with little in between), but Fragrant Cloud is definitely an orange rose. I don't know if it would be "tall" for you, but most likely it will be of at least medium height. I have an own root in zone 6 that I never protect (just the wood chip mulch the landscapers put down in the spring) & the only time I had trouble with it was in the freaky winter we had a few years ago where the temps. consistently remained in the 50's & 60's until a sudden brutal cold snap in early Feb. That killed it to the ground but since it was own root it's come back. (A normal winter here has temps. in Dec. in the low 40's or 30's during the day (except during a cold snap), and in the upper 20's or low 30's during the day in Jan. (except during a cold snap, where the high can be 10 for most of a week).) Tropicana is another famous orange rose. I don't have personal experience with it, but I know it has a reputation for growing tall when it's happy. As long as it was own root (so it came back true if it died to the roots) I wouldn't be reluctant to grow Tropicana if I had my own yard and enough sun to make it worthwhile. Both are strongly fragrant orange roses.

Those are not Stargazers. Stargazers are just one kind of oriental lily variety, raspberry red over white with prominent, raised darker dots. When I man our Society lily sale in the fall, people often ask for Stargazers as a generic name, when they really mean the mostly commonly seen variety, or ask for "that lily that smells so good." (orientals have the heaviest scent) The crosses between orientals and asiatics or orientals and trumpets have no raised dots, or tiny dots, less than a poppy seed in size, that are not raised. One way you can tell you've got an oriental are the prominent dots. Orientals and certain species lilies have the most prominent dots, often raised, to the point of being papillae. Take a close look at a photo of Casablanca oriental lily: though an all-white variety, the papillae are prominent. No raised dots, not a pure oriental. The tallest lilies will be either trumpets, aurelians, or crosses with those. The OP’s photo has the hallmarks of an orienpet, as Pitimpinai said. But orienpets are very popular, and there are many varieties. Okay, now you know too much ;) http://www.lilies.org/culture/types-of-lilies/ http://whatcomflowers.net/casablanca-lily-information-and-facts.html/casablanca-lily-pictures-and-photos