I also prefer the globe shaped blooms of DA to any other type of rose, and I have gone off the pinks due to pink overload. Among my current favourites are Windermere, Jude the Obscure, Pat Austin, Lady of Shalott, Troilus (flatter shape but fabulous all the same), Ambridge, Wollerton Old Hall, Golden Celebration, and Charlotte.
All but one of my roses are grafted because that is all that is available to me. I grew one Windermere from a cutting and it is doing fine on its own roots. I will try to strike more cuttings this year even though I actually have nowhere to put more roses. My sheep are never happy when I fence another part of their pasture off from them and fill it with things they can't reach.
You have so many more varieties available to you that I have. I have a wish list of DA roses that I know our local growers will never fulfill. They seem to drop certain varieties for no reason and I have lost the chance of owning some lovely roses due to this haphazard culling from them.
