I think this got moved down too far, bumping it up!

I'm not sure on this one. There do seem to be OGRs that wait until it is safe to leaf out. My Tea roses can leaf out too early and get frost nipped sadly.

In my garden, it breaks out of dormancy later than the Austins and Hybrid Teas.

Thank you everyone. While very recently we’ve had some warmer weather, probably not enough yet for the soil temps to be warm enough. Unfortunately, I don’t have any of the class of roses you mentioned Christopher. I have Reine des Violettes, and American Beauty, also HP’s, which have both leafed out some and Paul Neyron, which is still very small, but is leafing out. The rest of my OGR’s are Bourbons, which might be a little behind my modern roses, but are all leafed out.

I should have mentioned that Marchesa Boccella and my other Damask Perpetuals break out of dormancy later than the Bourbons, and the Austins and Hybrid Teas.

Thank you Krista. At least for now what I’ve read here has eased my concerns.

It'll break dormancy soon. My Compt de Chambroud is just now breaking and all my other roses have all leafed out.

I have once-blooming deciduous roses and evergreen warm climate rose and find that they have basically different growth patterns. The deciduous once-bloomers color in fall then lose their leaves cleanly just like maples and dogwoods, stay naked for the winter, then leaf out in spring, with bloom following in late spring. The weather doesn't matter: they have their schedule. Warm climate roses instead keep, or try to keep, their leaves all year round, succumbing only to severe cold, and they bloom whenever it's sufficiently warm and sunny and they have water. There may be variations on these patterns for roses of mixed blood, but basically this is what I see in my garden. At the moment the once-bloomers are leafing out, while the Teas and Chinas are in early bloom, a month ahead of their usual schedule as we've had an (appallingly) early sunny spring.