I live in Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, southern California, and need advice. I have room for three new roses that bloom most of the time in our heat. I am looking for disease resistant roses that are fragrant and do well as cut flowers. I love the Austin roses' form and fragrance, but most of mine are unhappy unless they receive some shade. I have had good luck with Country Dancer (Buck rose) but Earth Song was a loser for me. My McCartney rose is a giant as are Sentimental and Osiana. Yves Piaget is my best rose. All suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thank you.
Oakslesly

Part of the issue with Austin roses is that they cannot tolerate drought. As our climate has grown drier, they become somewhat problematical. Austin's 'Prospero' is an excellent cut flower for us, in Camarillo, as long as it gets enough water.

Our approach has been to move to Tea Roses, and they work well for us at cut flowers -- Though many do "nod" to greater or lesser extent, and if you don't like that, you just don't like it.

I cut most everything. 'Sombreuil,' Cl., 'Fourth of July', 'Lady Ann Kidwell' Most of the Teas, even "Ragged Robin".

But to be truthful, my best cut flower rose is also my best garden rose . . . "Grandmother's Hat"



and it has the added qualities of being disease-resistant, fragrant, and blooming pretty much through the year.

Well Hello,

I live in Houston, TX and have grown may varieties which have
done very well in our very hot climate.
I would recommend growing several old garden roses as they
normally grow well in warm weather and of course those David Austin Roses
are patterned after them. Here is a list of my favorites:

'Maggie' an old Bourbon rose
'Duchesse de Brabant' 1857 Tea rose, also known as 'Comptesse de Labarthe'
'Mrs B. R. Cant' 1901 Tea rose
Cramoisi Superieur 1832 China
Souvenir de la Malmaison 1843 Bourbon rose

Not an OGR but my Julia Child is nearly in constant bloom. She is very disease resistant for me and smells good too!

Well, I have been a very big fan of OGR's since I started growing roses