A friend has this rose...it has a lot of thorns, red thorns, flowers have a good scent...small 2.5-3 inches and the foliage stays pretty clean...it has been in a half barrel and seems happy and it does repeat.

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This is in Texas

It's a pretty rose?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I'm totally clueless... Zuzu & Calif-Sue will definitely know, though.. they're super-rose-brains!)

Reminds me of an Austin.

Yes it does but the blooms are small...think it might be a Austin parent...

If it repeats and it has that habit, it might be a tea, but I don't know enough about teas to even hazard a guess.

She says it blooms in the spring and has an occasional bloom in the fall.

The cupped form makes it look like it descended from gallicas & centifolias. The yellowish tint is definitely suggestive of something more modern - tea roses or post-pernetiana hybrid teas. It all makes me think it is most likely a DA rose. Comparing it to a photo of Claire Rose in DA's "Old Roses and English Roses" suggests that might be a reasonable guess. Emily, Evelyn, Cressida, or St Cecilia, and Sharifa Asma might be possibilities, too.

If it really doesn't have a yellowish tint, Heritage is a possibility. And I guess there is some possibility it is an old garden rose. I believe elsewhere someone suggested Souvenir de la Malmaison. Repeat flowering rules out anything older than that.

Souvenir de la Malmaison repeats like crazy and it's a good guess. But there are so many bourbons, teas, and chinas that look like that and rebloom constantly that I wouldn't hazard a guess of my own. I don't have that much experience with OGR's.

I first thought it might be Souv. de la Malmaison...but I think we have decided it is Duchesse de Montebello

Duchesse de Montebello is a once-bloomer.

She says it blooms in the spring, with an occasional bloom in the fall.