My situation is different, because I have a big garden and am a collector of sorts. I like to have at least two of every variety so that I don't have to worry about losing any, though once a rose begins suckering generously I think very little can kill it, and I don't worry so much about those. I have a number of singletons of giant roses, just for lack of a place to put them. I'm very far from having more than one of most of my roses: for probably the majority I have just one plant.

Some roses I have quite a few of. For a while it seemed like the garden was full of 'Spray Cecile Brunner'; the reason was I rooted some plants of it, then rooted more that were supposed to be 'Mlle. Cecile Brunner' which then turned out to be 'Spray'. Another one is 'Fantin-Latour'. I got four plants from four cuttings years ago: three are good and two of those are quite large. It's a great rose and that's plenty. But it appears that one of my mystery roses is also 'Fantin-Latour'--it sure looks like it--and I have three plants of that as well, all of them thriving. Where on earth did it come from? I would certainly never have propagated 'Fantin-Latour' again deliberately. This happens not infrequently: roses are supposed to be distinct, or at least I get them under different names, and they turn out to be the same rose. I had a lot of 'Louise Odier' in the garden at one point for this reason. 'Onex' from Petrovic looks exactly like 'Nuits de Young'. 'Comte de Chambord', 'Mme. Boll', and 'Mme. Knorr' from Schultheis all look identical. And so on.

Good luck introducing your neighbors to old roses! Perhaps they'll find some new friends, and the old roses need them.

I have two Mrs. B.R. Cant, two Le Vesuve and three SdlM. Oh, also two Rhodologue Jules Gravereaux. Unfortunately also three Wild Edric which are not doing well as two have rust and are lanky, with sparse leaves along the thorny stems. Mrs. B.R. Cant does not like it here and I may replace those two with something other than roses. One rose I wish I did have multiples of is La France, which surprised me the last time I had it by doing well in the heat, until is succumbed to canker. My new one has not bloomed yet but I can't wait to see those marvelous blooms.

We have 10-12 "Grandmother's Hats". More, if you count the two that are 'Tina Marie'. We have 2-3 of "Old Town Novato," 2 of "Elisabeth's China", 2 of "Barbara's Pasture Rose" (more, if you count the several other "La-Reine-TYPES" in the garden) and 2 of "Dawn Crest". Then, there are 4-5 of 'International Herald Tribune,' and four of 'Golden Celebration'. Oh, yeah -- 2 of 'Bishop Darlington' and 3 of 'Jeri Jennings'.

If I like it, and it does well for us, I really enjoy having a lot of it.

When It comes to stand outs or favorites I like having a lot I just have to become creative about placing duplicates so they don't look out of place. I have friends who live on an acre lot that is fully landscaped and Its hooked me on wanting atleast an acre to achieve mass plantings of various ogrs

Minette is the only old rose I have two of, one from a neighbor across the street, one from Loubert in France. It's a controversial rose here, it used to be considered a native Scandinavian rose, very common in all the Nordic countries and went under the false Latin name Rosa suionum in Sweden and local names elsewhere. Then somebody spotted it in Sangerhausen labeled as Vibert's Minette which it isn't, not according to Vibert's own description. Nobody is sure what class it is. It is supposed to be similar to Banshee in North America and it's well known in Northern Germany as well. I got one from Loubert to be able to compare them and they are the same rose. I guess that Loubert got it from Sangerhausen.

I have quite a few multiples of some of my modern roses. I started a circular bed with 4 times 12 roses in 4 colors, white, pink, yellow and purple in their separate quadrants. This has changed over the years, the purples are gone and replaced with amber and there is a total mix of varieties now but I try to keep the color scheme.

If I had it to do over, every third rose in my garden would be Peach Drift. That way I'd have continuous color!

I have 2 Mme Jules Bouche(I'm ordering a third in autumn), 3 Marie Pavie,2 The Mayflower, 2 Roseraie De L'Hay, 2 Moje Hammarberg, 3 Comte de Chambord, 2 Reve d'Or & 3 White Pet. I also have several modern multiples.

Jane

For the old garden roses, I have 2 SGMC, 2 Paul's Himilayan, 2 City of York, 2 SdlM, 2 R. Moschata (not real ones, some kind of musk climbers), 2 Ghislaine de feligonde, 2 La France (not the real ones), 2 Grandma's Hat, 4 Zephirine Drouhin, 2 Phyllis Bide, 2 Alpenfee.......

I have a few that are multiples. One I would consider getting a couple more of is DA Jubilee celebration. I like her salmon pink and since she is getting older who knows when Austin will stop having her.

I have La Reine in many names and if you count my happily suckering Grand Mothers hat and Reine des Violettes I have several of those

I have a long row of Johann Strauss with Clotilde Soupert in between each JS. The Huntington planted a row of JS and it makes a great low hedge that is always blooming. I like the way the Clotilde adds contrast and then I don't need to think about keeping the JS all the same height.

I also have a row of JOHANN STRAUSS, 12 of them... 2 A SHROPSHIRE LAD, 7 PERDITA, 2 TEASING GEORGIA, 3 CROWN PRINCESS MARGARETA... As you can see, my color scheme is all the same family and they all blend together beautifully!!!

On the left is EVELYN, on the right is TEASING GEORGIA, and top and bottom is CRESSIDA. I am impatiently awaiting the first blooms of newly planted darker than these, CROWN PRINCESS MARGARETA. And lighter than these, A GENEROUS GARDENER. The added bonus is all of the roses that I grow are strongly scented. Standing over this bowl to take this photo made me "heady" with the fragrance!!! Delicious!!

Rebecca