Mine is Variegata di Bologna. I just love that rose!

In my opinion nothing can beat Rosa Mundi with Camaeuix (sp?) second (but not close second). Never saw a picture that gave a justice to Rosa Mundi. It is so much better in real life. Tried many of them (Variegata di Bologna,Honorine Brabant,Ferdinand Pichard, Georges Vibert,Mecene, Belle Doria, Village Maid, La Rubanee and some others including moderns). Stripes preference is very individual thing. For example I don't care for Tricolore de Flandre, I don't know why.
Olga

I have Rosa Mundi on order. My six-nearly-seven year old wants it and has wanted it since last year. I will have to tell her she has good taste.

I will second what Olga says... the flowers of 'Rosa Mundi' are surprisingly big, and so much more vibrant in person than in any picture. Of course, I adore 'Variegata di Bologna' - I can remember the first time I experienced this wildly contrasted stripe at a winter flower show in a department store in Minneapolis, and that fragrance like raspberry jam and roses... I don't think even RM will quite be able to knock that impression out of first place in my heart.

My only stripey rose is the gallica Tricolore de Flandre. It's once blooming but has very healthy dark green leaves that set off the attractive pink and purple striping on white petals. Also it's fragrant and very winter hardy. I don't know if this is what you are looking for but it sure is a nice rose.

My buddy, Cheryl, was shocked when she first visited our rose garden. "What, no striped roses!! They're the delight of the garden and you have to have some of them, at least!" Properly chastised, I bought Camaieux (love it), Oeillet Panachee (love it), Tricolore de Flandres (so-so, but it's small and not in a perfect setting yet), Honorine de Brabant (nice, but doesn't roll my socks up and down) and Rosa Mundi (very beautiful). Cheryl was absolutely right about the interest they generate in the garden. I much prefer their subtlety to moderns like Fourth of July.

Sue

I love all of my striped old roses, but two in particular because they are the most generous with their blooms....Rosa Mundi and Centifolia variagata. (although Cent. Variagata is extremely thorny and I have to watch my back!) Both are once-bloomers and hardy. I also grow Ferdinand Pichard and Vick's Caprice which are hybrid perpetuals. My Ferdy is stingy with the blooms, but I love that he has no thorns and the canes are limber for wrapping around an obelisk. Vick's Caprice is a generous bloomer and I get several flushes during the summer...he also has few thorns. I also have the gallica Belle Doria which has pretty stripes. Here are some photos of them for you....
Celeste

Centifolia Variagata

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Belle Doria

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Vick's Caprice

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Ferdinand Pichard

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Rosa Mundi

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Celeste,
I just showed your pic of Rosa Mundi to my daughter and she went "ooooohhh I LIKE that." She isn't fickle with this which is good since I sent away the money order for it today.

Great pictures - thanks!
In fact, I already have Rosa Mundi; it lives in my herb garden and fits well in there - albeit after three years it is still a small bush and I think it perhaps does not thrive too well there.

For the long, large rose plot I think I shall have to go for one of the rather contrast-filled stripees. I would like a neat and healthy bushy plant, and one that could rebloom a little, and I like the flowers very full (like 40 petals!). That might suggest the Variegata di Bologna?

Difficult, difficult, they are all so beautiful.

Mrs. Liteturn

Does Variegata di Bologna have much of a repeat, if any? I have this rose, and I believe it is nearly a a once bloomer (from what I've read). Mine is still too young to comment on.

Robert

My rose pusher has Bologna set up as "reblooming", but there are reblooms and reblooms... What shape does the Bologna have in your hands? Lax, upright?

Mrs. Liteturn

I've always heard from gardeners that 'Variegata di Bologna' is practically once-blooming, too. I wouldn't buy it if season-long, high-contrast striped blooms is your object. A modern striped rose is probably your best bet in that case.

There goes the reputation of my trusted rose man! I will call him and grill him about this.

Anyway, I don't really do modern roses :) I have, I believe, three exceptions in the garden. Perhaps four. That's just me. I am sold for the oldfashioned grey-greenish matte-sheen leaves, the bloom style and the scent of OGRs (I am one of those persons who never really liked roses until they ran into Jacques Cartier and had a shock). I'd rather sacrifice the reblooming, then!

Mrs. Liteturn

Celeste,
Thank you for your beautiful pics! This year I had already designated as my year to bring stripes into the garden. Your incredible gallica photos last fall had a big influence on my orders this year. I have Rosa Mundi, Camaieux, and Georges Vibert on order, as well as the striped mini moss, Love and Peace, from Sequoia. Still waiting for Belle Doria to become available, and on the verge of ordering Variegata di Bologna. Now, after that photo, I am really tempted by Centifolia Variegata. I really like the softer tones of that one. Also reconsidering Tricolore de Flandres, which my daughter had requested. It seems to get mixed reviews here.

Celeste, thank you for posting those gorgeous stripes.

Carla

I must be a closeted striped fan. In a way i think they are so gaudy candy cane looking and then they keep slipping into my orders. Last year i planted 3 var de bologna, villiage maid,belle doria,2 camieux. i have ferdinand pichard on order. i don'tknow if baron de ain or roger lambelin or leda, should be included. camieux some canes sport a pink, also gets damask crud, variegata has a nice arch look.also have honorin de brabant.