I also agree with Mike. Thank you Sue for the links. My Crown Princesse Margareta looks much more like the HMF photo.
In NJ I found DA roses to be much more robust, growing more vigorously and resisting disease much better than any HT or floribunda. Although disease is not a problem here, I'm finding DA roses seem do better than most other roses here, too. My guess is that some of the cause is the vigor of the cultivar. Some of the cause might be the rootstock. Nearly all of the roses on their own roots are just limping along. HTs on their own roots here are all but impossible to grow here ... at least given my approach to soil fertility. One exception is Don Juan which is planted so as to get only six hours of sun.
I noticed two or three times that roses on their own roots start putting out leaves before it is safe to do so, while the same cultivar on DrH rootstock waits another two or three weeks. The consequence is that two or three times I have had identical cultivars perform differently, with the own-root rose dying of frostbite in April while the grafted rose survives. Lost GSThomas this way.
Sooooo... I'm thinking that I might be moving back in the direction of DA roses from DA nursery.
