Most of my roses were in their first year, but I still had some standouts.

They were:
Julia Child, Gold Medal, Altissimo, and White Eden.

I bought Sexy Rexy in the spring, and while I cannot say it has bloomed heavily, it took a lot of shade and did not show one bit of mildew. I'm thinking it will perform better next spring as far as blooms go. I like it.

Unusually cool summer for us. 'Belindas Dream' the heat-lover was just as spectacular as usual.

'Tamora' was a standout in cooler conditions. It seemed to always have many, many perfect flowers.

'Disneyland' liked the cool conditions also.

'Pope John Paul II' I was very surprised did not do so well in the cooler weather. Flowers were gorgeous but many less of them.

Less flowers overall from the garden due to the cool weather, but the quality was very very high.

Mother of Pearl, Julia Child, Snowdrift, White Out,Amalia & Cherry Parfait did particularly well this season.

Overall best performers: Le Vesuve and Cottage Rose

Most beautiful blooms on newer bands: Queen Nefertiti and Charles Darwin

Best shrub shape, vigor, most buds of newer bands: Coquette de Blanches and Miss Atwood

Most Unexpected Growth Habit: Aunt Margy's Rose, a polyantha, is happily clambering up a house wall, about six feet now and shows no signs of stopping. I'm delighted.

Ingrid

For me Pink peace and Granda with a little Garden Party. I think my other roses would be doing better if wasn't for all the rain and blackspot.

My new Pinkie knocked my socks off. It's turned out to be a bit of work, since as soon as one bloom is over I have to get out the ladder and trim and tie because another bloom is on its way. It is on its way to its fourth flush this year.
Renee

Tahitian Sunset, Hot Cocoa, and Tabasco Cat, hands down. Most blooms, best foliage, robust growth.

My Garden Party continues to pump out lovely blooms, but shirks her leaves off below the hemline every single year.

World War II Memorial is looking great, although I've only had it for 2 months. Too soon to say it's stellar.

---Laura

Austin's BELLE STORY
DARLOW'S ENIGMA
HT TIFFANY
FL ARTHUR BELL
CL DUBLIN BAY

Gotta say the bands that I got from NORTHLAND ROSARIUM this spring have given me much joy. The following are my newest favorites from this group:

BARBRA STREISAND-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM for the powerful citrus scent and color! Bloomed well too. (Week's says to spray for blackspot. Haven't seen ANY diseases on in yet in my no-spray, semi-arid garden.)

TYPHOO TEA-WOW for it's powerful fragrance and it's 'cha-cha', lipstick color!

DOUBLE DELIGHT-gotta laugh--years ago I considered it a gaudy, common looking rose. Finally changed my mind and decided to plant one. Found it fun. Loved watching it's phototropic colors--plus it has a good spice fragrance. Dang, I love this rose! A big surprise, he,he.

Great thread!! :)

Debbie

Julia Child and Harlow Carr

my roses are all new this year...

but my favorites this year are:
Madam Alfred Carriere (even though she's in partial shade, she's got canes almost as tall as me now.)

Jude the Obscure - the color and shape of the bloom on this rose just kills me. So beautiful. And the smell is even MORE wonderful.

James Galway cl - despite being the last of my bareroots to show any signs of life, it's now the biggest of that set and wants to bloom a lot even though it's it's first year.

Sombreuil - just so gorgeous. SO GORGEOUS.

William Shakespeare 2000 - ditto

My favorites at the moment are the ones that are still blooming like gang busters and have maintained very healthy foliage (& lots of it). Among the HTs, those are

Tineke -- the A#1 winner, and (in no particular order) these:
Safari Freelander
Charlies Rose (aka Acapella)
Cary Grant
Chrysler Imperial
Tahitian Sunset
Tiffany
Brigadoon

My best Floribundas right now are Royal Wedding, Julia Child and Antique Silk (aka Champagner). I list Antique Silk primarily for its lovely foliage rather than its bloom production, altho the roses it's producing now are the finest it's produced this year.

As for OGRs, its the Bourbons (as always) -- esp SdlM and all her sports (as always).

Producers: Black Magic, Moonstone, Ginger Hill

Today's prettiest bloom: Let Freedom Ring

Sally Holmes has been outstanding and is still blooming. Memorial Day was a slow starter but took off in July. It's now producing isolated, but giant, blooms. I also particularly love the band of Compassionate Friend I received in June. Beautiful fragrance and she's got to be about 5x the size she was when I got her, so she likes it here.-Maeve

I can't say enough good things about Voluptuous! This is the best bloomer in my garden. I love this rose and I don't even particularly like pink roses! It has been covered in blooms since June.

Other favorites for the year: Mister Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Let Freedom Ring (standard).

Correction about my prior comment regarding BARBRA STREISAND--it seems I got that all wrong. HMF'S site shows, "Weeks' web site says Flower color & size do best in milder temps." Sorry 'bout that!
HMF's site states that it's "Blackspot sensitive, so keep it sprayed."

Debbie

In my hot zone 9 garden, this summer's best were:

Marilyn Monroe
Black Magic
Miss Behavin
Route 66
St Patrick
Symphony
English Sachet

Big disappointments were Pure Poetry, Honey Bouquet, and Tequila Sunrise. Only difference is I was too lazy to do alfalfa tea for the first time in years.

Explorer rose Champlain-hardy to zone 3, absolutely covered with blooms all season till fall frost.

Rosa Rubrifolia-beautiful purple leaves-grow with low growing silver plants like snow in summer, silver mound artemesia.

Sun Sprite and Macy's Pride have been fabulous- and still are blooming like 90. My Austins have been great, especially Sir John Betjeman and L.D. Braithwaite. My climbers have been great this season. Lunar Mist; Full Moon Rising; Golden Showers; and AD and Teasing Georgia who have decided to be climbers.

All my roses were just planted dec-april but the best bloomers were Secret, Heirloom, Tiffany, Oklahoma, & Chicago Peace.

Harlekin, Austin Mary, William Baffin, Morden Centennial and Angel Face were the winners in my yard this year.

I have a floribunda that I never hear anyone talk about that knocks my socks off and everyone thta visits my garden. I got it just to fill out an order and am I glad I did.
"PREFERENCE" is the rose, a dark velvety red blooming floribunda that has TONS of blooms in sprays and singles all the time that last a long time and are gorgeous. Even in the hottest of summer it is still blooming it's fool head off. The foliage is deep dark green and stays healthy and the bush is large and very shapely and very dependable and not too thorny. It is an absolute gem.
Other good ones this year....
Moondance
Heart O' Gold
Rock & Roll (Striped Grandiflora)
Pride of England
Spellbound
Love & Peace
Dream Come True
Gold Medal (of course)
Salita (climber)
Christopher Columbus
Moonstone
Daybreaker
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Honey Dijon
Double Delight
Norma Major
Mavrik
Eternal Flame (the yellow HT)
April In Paris
Blackberry Nip
Memorial Day

John

Preference is a winner for me, too! I can hardly find any information on it, though.

Firefighter and Chrysler Imperial are wow!!

Sombrieul started off strong but is just struggling now.

Habanera
Lafter
Eglantyne

Double Delight is starting slow but I love the two colors. I guess I'm just a gaudy kind of girl.

First year for everything, BTW.