It may be lost in the USA

@MetteBee_Copenhagen8b

If you are still looking for this rose HMF says it's available from the Belgian nursery Daniel Schmitz.

They don't sell through their website, but you can email them for bare root orders.

schmitz-rose@skynet.be

I love the sort of rumpled look of the open blooms - DA did a HUGE favor to us, by getting the entire rose industry away from its focus on only HTs being "real" roses.

Jackie

Thank you, @seasiderooftop for that info! I'm redesigning my kitchen garden this fall and I hope I can incorporate (more) roses...

There was someone in Seattle that had one the year it was released in the US all those years ago. She said it did very well for her, but I have tried every which way to see if she is still in the area or has it. The problem is she posted on her blog (about 14 years ago) that she moved and did not mention taking any roses with her to the smaller house. She also had a Summer Song that she said was her best rose ever in Seattle...DA pulled it after 1 year.

Talk to any nearby independent retailers that are buying Austin roses wholesale and see if they can get it for you at this time. I know that labor shortages during the supposedly now over pandemic seriously impacted the domestic supply of Austin roses but maybe that phase has passed or is passing. I also know that when another of theirs was just coming on the market before the pandemic impact occurred I was able to ask for one in advance from a local independent and they had it for me after shipping (of barerooted Austins) had taken place. And there was only a tiny number of my variety present when I picked mine up, as I remember it all labeled so as to indicate every one of them was a special order. Point being it wasn't a matter of simply setting aside one for me from a full sized allottment of that variety that they were going to get anyway - they apparently bought it because a few of us asked for it, were in fact willing to do this for us. And only bought enough to fill our indvidual orders, were not going to have any on display for potential sales to others later that same season.

Otherwise if a kind of plant comes on the market for a short time and then is gone it means some problem quickly presented itself that killed it as a commercially viable product. This can be that it turned out to be hard to grow or hard to sell. Hard to grow as in not conforming and responding well to how involved producers have their systems set up. Or having a limitation that resulted in multiple garden center customers bringing it back to each operator. With brick-and-mortar independents being quick to drop anything that produces a number of failures at the consumer end or does not fly off the shelves in the first place - the involved filters are actually pretty restrictive. Because not only do plants presented have to be sufficiently tolerant of whatever conditions purchasers happen to place them in afterward they have to conform to prevailing ideas of what is an attractive plant while they are still in nursery sizes. With of course a marked falling off of orders from retailers resulting sooner or later in a largely discontinued wholesale production.

Did you ever find Windflower by chance?