I grew them both in Alaska. Therese Bugnet is hard to beat. They are both great. Jens is more typically rugosa. Therese is graceful and more elegant.

thank you Sheila. That is good to hear.

I’m sorry that I’m unable to help as I don’t have either one. Just wanted to wish you luck with your choice.

The only rugosa that I’ve had for a very long time is Roseraie de l’hay. If you should ever consider another rugosa she blooms all year if deadheaded and no disease. She has beautiful hips if you should stop deadheading in mid summer. I always enjoy hearing about other roses so hope you did not mind my adding that

Jens Munk is a rose with extremely clean foliage and blooms all season but I am having to take mine out because it suckers terribly in my loam soil. I am looking for a spot for it where it can range without being a problem for surrounding plants.

Therese Bugnet is indeed graceful and elegant with good winter interest. I did lose it after many years and would happily replace it.

Thank you all very much for the helpful feedback! It looks like Therese is my girl. I will look for one next spring. There is a nursery in Chicago that had it on their list this year. Both of these plants are hard to find and don't seem to exist in suburban garden centers. I did have some concerns about potential suckering, based on my experience with William Baffin. I am technically in zone 5b, but I have learned the hard way that many plants rated for zone 5 don't do that well here.

I got my Therese Bugnet on Monday and hope to get it planted soon if it ever stops raining. I had some concerns about its suckering nature, and a lady at the Garden Center who has grown this plant said that I could try planting it in a bottomless large plastic pot. The spot it's going into is heavy clay soil and not completely full sun, but more Sun than shade. There's plenty of room for the main plant to get big, but I just don't want to be digging up suckers all over the front yard. ( I go through this enough with my trumpet vine in the back.) Has anyone tried growing a rose in the ground in a bottomless pot? Thanks very much.

I don't think you need to bother with all that, Nancy. Therese is an upright vase shape. I never had one sucker. Regular rugosas do, but this rose is different.

Sheila, thank you for the feedback. Apparently this Rose does sucker under good conditions in this area, but not necessarily. The lady I discussed it with has one that is growing in partial shade and does not sucker, but there is another one she knows that is in good conditions and suckers enough that it provides offshoot plants that they occasionally dig up and sell at the Garden Center. My site unfortunately will only get 3 hours of full sun a day but they are in the middle of the day. After removing a 20 year old cotoneaster and digging a hole today, I've decided on a compromise. I think I will use the pot but keep it somewhat open on the side where there's room to expand, and put the closed part facing the lawn. After the good stuff for six or seven inches down, there is awful yellow sticky clay. I started feeling sorry for the plant.

That isn't nearly enough sun for a rose.