I loved it so much when you posted @Nollie that I have ordered one. Well I needed to replace the Julia Child that arrived dead so it made it into the basket too. Does look lovely.
@Marlorena , I like Jasmina but wouldn't choose it again. The blooms are lovely, pale pink with lots of petals, but small with blooms in clusters. They droop too much for my liking and need to be tied to the trellis often, which as the stems are very prickly is a real pain - literally. It's got to be at least 5 if not 8 years old and has been moved once. It also has survived having to be chopped down when 2 fence panels were blown down in a storm. It's not in very good soil either, almost solid clay!
'Joie de Vivre' in the full 1st flush. Yes, quite late, but there were some scattered blooms earlier. 'Charles Darwin' bombing the photo on the right.
'Astronomia', very likeable. I agree with Nollie, fleeting. But I hope, when it gets bigger, there will be so many blooms that it won't matter.
'Our Beth'
'Souvenir de St. Anne's'
'Ebb Tide'
And a word of warning for anyone considering 'Eye of the Storm', it could be 4, 5 or 6 generations away from hulthemia persica but it has that vicious hooked thorns, completely up to the uppermost leaves and buds, very noticeable when deadheading.
I've got 2 of your first list @Katsa, WOH and Claire Austin . They are too young for me to be of use to you but I don't want to ignore you. The first was only bought and planted end May this year. I love it, and this was after being very worried about the colour being a bit neither one thing nor another. It has grown really vigorously and is practically the same size as CA which was planted end of June 19. I am still a bit disappointed with CA, the flowers and canes are flimsy and rain is a disaster. But in the knowledge that DA roses sleep, creep, leap I still have hope.
The best scented climber I have is TGG (planted early June last year), I have found it vigorous, robust and floriforous (already 8ft by 8ft on a trellis) but I hear that is not always the case. I have it in a sheltered spot, only partial sun. Bathsheba and Teasing Georgia are very new and doing well is all I can say about them. The former has lots of growth, few flowers, TG is concentrating on flowers.
Even newer are Ghislaine de Feligonde and Blush Noisette which I think will suit the spaces I have for them but they are very different to the DA climbers.
That's @Tack . I was leaning towards Claire Austin and amnesty international. I may go for wollerton Old Hall, especially if it's better in the rain. Sometimes I just need to make a decision otherwise I keep looking and faffing.
@Katsa I have only had one rain on one WOH flower but I was pleased how it stood up to it. But that is very little for you to go on. On the other hand @Marlorena mentioned somewhere that massive numbers of petals is a disadvantage in rain. DA USA usefully gives petal totals in its descriptions, WOH has 45 to CA's 120.
Edit: Another thought is check out all your roses in the Members' comments on the Help Me Find website, a quick squiz showed me people bemoaning rain on CA and that Marlorena had a WOH!
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...are you getting any scent off Diamond Eyes please? thanks... it looks very nice..
It also has survived having to be chopped down when 2 fence panels were blown down in a storm. It's not in very good soil either, almost solid clay!