I'm with you Sunny. I've always tried to stick to plants that didn't need too much coddling. Things like wrapping, laying on the ground were extra steps I wanted to avoid. There are lots of people who grow roses back in NY but they were willing to do the extra work they required. I was not.
The only rose I had sucess with was one I grew from a seed. A fellow on an internet rose hybridizers group was giving away some seeds he had hybridized away. I put my hand up and got I don't remember how many but only one seed made it to adulthood. It looked and performed very much like a rosa rugosa. Lovely fragrance and loosely blown blooms about 4" in diameter. Color was a very deep pink. When I moved from that house I took a runner from it with me (plant had grown to 5' tall so I wasn't about to move the whole thing!) but the runner died in a drought that summer. The best thing about that rose was it never needed any extra care. It had one big bloom in June and several smaller ones throughout the summer. By August there were rose hips on it.
MollyD
