Yes! Viru's Coffee Country, a russet/tan/coral floribunda. And Mystic Beautiy which is related to SDLM-- both from Roses Unlimited. Still on my wish list is an old Kordes climber, Summer Wine. Not rare but DEFINITELY not common. And a newcomer on my wish list, McClinton Tea which is a found rose.

I've ordered several that I've not heard mentioned (often) as well.

Gypsy Boy
Antonia d'Ormois
Wretham Rose
Hovyn de Tronchre
Gravin Michel d'Ursel
Duchesse de Verneuil
Blanche Moreau
Boule de Nanteuil
Agatha Incarnata
Amadais
Plaisenterie
Velours Episcopal
Lordly Oberon

Robert

Me too, "different and little known" is a quality that appeals to me...I want to put some pictures on those poor empty Photos tabs in HMF.

Renee Danielle (Wichurana climber)
Prince de Vaudement (Moss)
Sorority Tea

Eric

Secret Garden Noisette
Aunt Margy's Rose
Natchitoches Noisette
Mc Clinton Tea
Mrs. Wood's Lavender Pink Noisette
Huilito
Carnation
Ley's Perpetual
Heideroeslein

Ingrid

Now these roses may be well known....but I never hear much about them on these forums so here goes...

What I purchased and why I selected it:

Faith Whittlesey-- White Tea, size and performance similar to Duchess de Brabant (whom I love dearly!)

Borderer-- Compact and practically evergreen in zone 7. Good rebloom. Great for the front of the border.

Mystic Beauty-- Because I saw this rose at Pat Henry's house and was instantly smitten. Its one of those roses you think about long after you leave. I am getting 2 since this rose is also great in pots.

Amadeus-- Red climber from Kordes...I hear great things about this rose as far as disease resistance and rebloom.

Clementina Carboneri-- Because I lost my Niles Cochet (which means I have room for this biggun) and because....its just time I had her!

Rhonda-- Had this one before and left it when I moved. Just recently purchased a book that had many pics of a mature 'Rhonda'. I want her back. :o)

France Info-- I have wanted this for some time. Hoping it is good in disease resistance and rebloom...surrrrrre is pretty!

Thats it....for now...(ahem)....

Ronda

Many of my 2007-8 new introductions in the garden are uncommon or very rare Roses, almost for European Countries. But I know that a big part of these Roses are well known in USA (... La Biche, Sousan Louise, Jean Bach Sisley, Duc of York, Le Pactole, White Cécile Brunner, Cels Multiflore, Emmie Gray, Miss Attwood...).

Rosa cymosa: a wild climbing Rose, related to Banksiae, from Sichuan.
'Triomphe de la Guillotière': this is a pretty rare, Rosa roxburghii hybrid. Climbing, with big, cupped, full flowers, in shades of pink and a little hint of salmon in the center.
'Sénégal': another climbing Rose. An old HT, from Charles Mallérin. Almost purple-black, dark crimson medium flowers, in quarters. Very well scented.
Ley's Perpetual: a climbing Tea-Noisette, similar to 'Maréchal Niel'
Jenny Wren: an old Floribunda, related to 'Cécile Brunner'. Small urn shaped, ivory flowers, with a hint of blush in their centers.
Eugène de Beauharnais: listed as a China, but maybe an hybrid Bourbon-China. Crimson-purple flowers, full of petals, strongly scented
White Jacques Cartier: a white sport of the widely known Portland Rose.
Alister Clark: an hybrid Gigantea-Polyantha, similar to 'Borderer'
Lady Plymouth: a Tea, in the 'Lady Hillingdon' style, but the colour is more creamy and the plant is thinier.

... ;o)

Maurizio

I always order a few that are little known or seldom talked about on this forum. This year not as many since I have no room...

Comtesse de Rocquigny
Romaggi Plot Bourbon (another)
Etoile de Mai
Marie de St. Jean
Victor Velidan

Carol

Ingrid, Ronda, Maurino--- eeeyay! I want everything on your list! We were enchanted that our new house has a wilderness behind it...but what good is a 330 foot deep lot if it's mostly TREES?? All these beauties you'll be planting I'll have to wait until we retire & move to open acreage. Thanks for the help with my wish list!

I ordered just a few, really no space left.
Bellard
Juliette
D'aguesseau
Baby Ballerina (saw it many times at Lori's garden and love it. Resistant too.)

Olga

No more room and drought looming:
Aunt Margy's Rose-3
Spice
Souvenir de St. Anne's Because of Carol FM
Orange Morsdag
Marie d'Orleans Because of Carol FM
Chapeau de Napoleon
Souvenir de Pierre Notting, again Carol's influence
Basye's Purple, wondering about this choice after reading post on here, oh well.

Carla

Most of mine do not classify as unknown, apologies Ronda.

Carla

Let's see what I have coming that we'd consider to be unusual or little-known . . .

Vanguard - hybrid rugosa
"Mandeville Pink" - found pink rambler
"Ralph Moore's South African OGR" - bourbon
Blairii #1 - cl. bourbon
Alba Odorata - hybrid bracteata
Atomic White - HT
Isabella Skinner - climber
James Bougalt - HP
Beales' The Bride - HT
Morning Dawn - climber
Country Doctor - HT
Magnifica - hybrid rugosa

. . . and lots of others. :)

Is it spring yet?
Connie

Please report back how Mme Creux, Taicha, and Victor Velidan do for you. These are all roses that I have lusted over but couldn't find available.
If they are available right now then I don't want to know! I can't order any more roses when I know I'm going to move soon! Maybe they'll still be available once I'm established.

In the province of Piacenza most varieties of roses are rare: I mostly see Hybrid Teas, and various modern and popular bush types and small climbers. So everything I buy is unusual, for here. I mostly get old and older varieties, lots of Teas, lots of once-blooming old roses, and I have a great affection for the Hybrid Musks; I also acquire climbers and ramblers of various sorts, half against my will as I never have any place to put them. Like Maurizio, this year I ordered from Schultheis in Germany and Le Roseraie du Désert in France: great minds think alike. At this stage I'm working desperately to get a collection established and get the bones of the garden in place as well; later on I'll begin to refine my selection and go to work on the details.

Melissa

I've ordered a couple of winter hardy roses that aren't so often mentioned here: Zeus (the hybrid setigera) and Fruhlingsduft.

la belle sultane,gloire lyonnaise,etoile de feu,feu joseph looymans,soeur therese,fruhlingsgold,suzanne,edith ballenden,golden chersonase,venusta pendula

Len, I don't know where you live but I'm betting you're a good bit lower than zone 8! Love your list--(me jealous)

thank you barbara. but some i have are probably borderline
i don't think i can grow many trinity roses.lol

I love looking up all these roses! Will most likely be enabled with several. I have finally gotten Etoile de Feu after many years of waiting, it is growing in a pot now. Does anyone grow it, can you comment on it?
Judith

Some of those I ordered are well knownbut most of them wasn't known to me but sounded good enough to try. I will receive these roses from Vintage

My Choice
Mme. Butterfly
"Romaggi Plot Bourbon"
Comtesse Vandal
Augustine Guinoisseau
Cynthia Brooke
Sleigh Bells
"Spice"

Not antiques but not well known moderns are:

Jessica
Augute Louise both are Tantau roses from Hortico. Jessika looks healthy and great, Augusta Louise is no way could be considered a grade 1 rose but I hope it will make it. Beside the less than satisfactory number and size of the canes, Hortico chopped the roots so short that my first thought was: well that's one of the reasons why I don't buy roses at Lowe's, HD etc. any more.

Marie de St Jean (Portland)
Duchess of Albany (sport of La France)

I was quite fortunate to pick up both Odee Pink and Sorority Tea, along with France Dubreuil (sp?) at a local rose auction earlier this month. Am keeping them all in large containers for a while since the OGR bed has no room left this year. I already pulled out the (finally) dead Compte de Chambord and replaced it with the shrub-version Cecile Brunner. The Comte spent 5-6 years looking stickly so it was rather a relief when it made a decision.

Princesse de Vaudemont
Comtesse de Rocquigny

Wedding Cake. I'm hoping that Most Unusual Day hangs on because Sequoia was out and they will have no more.

I don't know how little known these are but they do seem unusual enough....

City of York (climber)
Summer Wine (climber)

Ellen Willmott (HT)
Mrs. Oakley Fisher (HT, but this one might be more widely grown)
Vesuvius (HT)
Smoky (HT)

I have Orange Morsdag but it is still a tiny baby. At last inspection it is taking the winter well. I'll let you know how it does.

Bayse's Purple - make sure you give this one a lot of room. It likes to visit the neighbors. Mine does anyway.

Carol, where did you order Victor Velidan from?

Alicia, I ordered it from Vintage. Gregg says it is a wonderful Tea that stays "smaller". I suspect that smaller is a relative term for a Tea :-).

Carol

Thank you Carol.

This year my unusual roses are:

Juliette - medium pink Gallica. This is my first gallica and I picked it because it's my daughter's name.

Mozart - single hybrid musk that is colored halfway between Ballerina and Marjorie Fair. I picked it instead of either of those because it's supposed to be somewhat fragrant.

Bubble Bath - light pink double hybrid musk. I picked it because it looks so pretty.

I don't know what I'll order yet (I order for the fall). Last fall I got 'Rosa bhutan' from Rogue Valley Roses. I don't know much about it yet. It's not a recognized species. It's looked beautiful all winter, lots of anthocyanins: chocolate-red canes, purplish leaves with red edges and a hint of green in the middle. I can't wait to see how it grows. I expect it will green up.

White Pearl in Red Dragons Mouth
Bon Silene
Chesire Red
Captain Hayward
Cels Multi Flora

I bought them from the Sacramento Cemetary and the end of the season sale at Vintage. None of them have bloomed and I am waiting for spring to see what the colors, scent and blooms look like...

Spring Christmas!

From my spring orders, the most unusual:

Errinerung an Brod (rambler)
Inermis Morletii (rambler)
Umbra (gallica hybridized by Paul Barden)
Incantation (small shrub rose, also by Barden)
Geschwind's Orden (shrub)
Norland Rose (climber)
Break o'Day (Brownell HT)
Andrewsii (spinossisima)
Alika (gallica)
Prairie Flower (Buck)
Sweet Fragrance (Grandiflora by Ping Lim)
Omphale (gallica)
Daphne' (gallica)
Heinrich Karsch (polyantha)

And for every one of these (plus the other seven I haven't listed because I see them talked about all the time) I must find a rose already in the garden to remove, pot up and give away. No expansion, that's my self-imposed new rule and that will make planting twice the work, I think! Oh well, a good number of these will be small bands that may not go in the ground yet this year. We'll see how they do in pots for a while. :-)

Anne

@alameda/zone 8/East Texas How did Raymond Carver grow for you? Which ones performed best for you in Texas?