Thank you

@Marigold33 NY-Z7

for your post! I will add your list

Of disease resistant varieties to my list. I am always looking for blackspot resistant varieties.

Disease resistance to blackspot and very close to non stop bloom:

Bordeaux cityscape

Flamenco rosita

Knockouts

Guirlande d’Amour

Crazy Love

Mel’s Heritage

Darlow’s enigma

Raspberry Cream Twirl

Annie Laurie McDowell

Kendyl Marie

The fairy

Disease resistant that take time in between flushes:

Earth Angel

Florentina

Teasing Georgia

Dark desire

Pomponella

Thanks for sharing dianela! This is great to know! I'm always looking for new roses to add to my collection and I'm opting to get disease resistant roses even if they're not overly floriferous.

For me disease resistant are Plum Perfect , Bolero Olivia Austin, Fiji and Ingrid Bergman. Oh and a perfect rose is The Fawn.

Not so resistant to disease,

Heirloom

First to clarify: disease resistant for me does not mean no black spot. They all eventually get BS by the end of the season, lose leaves, etc, but some seem to fare better than others. At the same time, I noticed variations by year - some do better in some years. Very hit or miss. This spring I've been spraying them (I am at my second spay already) and I can certainly see a difference.

Overall, however, these are my patterns.

The Coral Drifts take the prize for health followed by

Olivia Rose Austen

Easy Does It

Plum Perfect

South Africa - first season so not sure yet but it grows well and seems resistant to BS.

Belinda's Dream under-performs relative to its reputation.

The Fairy is awful, full of black spot and is not even mid Spring; poor, unimpressive bloom that ages badly, slow grower, a major disappointment; I might get rid of it.

Beverly - small still, her first season but already black spots and loses leaves, maybe it's just a matter of maturity.

Good as Gold prone to black spot but beautiful blooms.

Marigold I am the same right now. I of course love contact blooms but having good resistant to blackspot is my main concern. I have even added some one bloomers this year and will report later how they do. I forgot to include the following roses that have great disease resistance to my list.

Madame Anisette: perfect health ( rebloom can be sparse )

Summer romance: perfect health ( rebloom weak so far)

Peggy Martin: (rebloom improving after two years)

Fiji: perfect health (rebloom took 3 years)

Laguna: great health (to young to evaluate rebloom)

I have read the Kordes respond well to pruning after each flush. I also added 8 new Kordes this year to try and see how they do. I added the two new Austin’s also, they tend to bloom more for me but tend to get more blackspot.

Kristine Olivia is also one of my best Austin’s for blackspot resistance and I forgot to mention her. Nothing like a Kordes but really good.

Artist, I was thinking about getting the Fairy, I heard it was an easy rose with few problems but I guess climate factors into the mix. I read many great reviews about Cherry Parfait, especially how cold hardy it was. From Heirloom roses: "Cherry Parfait is extremely hardy and performs in all climates and stays compact" That's why I was more than surprised it didn't make in through my second winter. Cherry Parfait is only rose bush I've ever lost.

dianella, thanks very much, I also read that Kordes are very good roses!

@marigold,

You can see mine in the large grey pot posted below. It blackspotted already and quite a bit too, blooms are late and current buds not at all abundant. It needs to give up that prime real estate space its taking, to someone who can actually do the job and command some attention. I don't know who would fit well there ...a bright pink, coral red floriferous rose in constant bloom....but now I know the Fairy is not it. Smetimes I think I should keep that pot for annuals: sweet potatie vine, marigolds and blue petunia ...need something to cascade over the pot...and I thought the Fairy could do that but she is wimpy. Oh, well.

Artist, I also buy annuals, about 12 potted and others scattered in the garden. After trial and error with annuals I now have my go to annuals that I know are easy and perform well. I have 2 heucherellas that are potted, I know they're perennials but I'm surprised they come back year after year. They both do so well in the pots although I leave them outside all winter but they don't cascade. I also had a coreopsis "Full Moon" one of my favorites, it cascades but it's a bright yellow it did very well in a pot but I didn't end up keeping it there. I don't think I'm going to risk getting the Fairy.

Disease resistance depends heavily on the particular weather. Some are very resistant if it's cool and wet. Some if it's warm and wet. Some if it's cool and dry. Etc... . And it's only part of the equation. I've had roses that got a lot of BS and drop a lot of leaves, but they would recover quickly and still be very productive. While others would lose their leaves one by one and wouldn't grow new ones. We focus so much on what ails the leaves, when we should be more focused on healthy roots and canes. Because a really healthy rose can go through BS cycles and quickly recover. I think Kordes generally makes the healthiest roses. So, even ones that get BS perform better than others that don't get it as much.

The Fairy is very healthy for me. I have one that's maybe 5' tall right now, covered in lush green leaves. It was neglected for decades. It was covered by a forsythia for 15 years. I forgot I planted it. I cut down the forsythia and found it to my surprise. It's a tuff rose.

@Artist-FKA-Novice Zone 7B GA

Artist is your fairy in full sun? My fairy is in almost all day sun starting at 9Am and has perfectly clean foliage without spraying. Here is one of my three plants with buds but no blooms in the front.

Of course we know there are several variants of blackspot and maybe mine just isn’t susceptible to the one/ones in my yard. we are so close geographically tho I am shocked she is doing so poorly.

I feel like if a rose doesn’t get full sun (at least 6 hours) they definitely suffer more from blackspot no matter which rose it is.

I wonder if your rose is maybe too young yet to perform? Mine is the easiest most nonstop bloomer ever. You probably can’t count the buds in my picture and it never stops even tho it is a three year old plant.

Dont give up on it.

november

disease finally showing in November (i dont hold that against it)

I mentioned The Fawn as a great overlooked rose.

The color is a perfect wedding cake pink that blooms non stop. The blooms last forever and self clean. It is a fountain form that has never had any kind of pest or disease.

I WA going to ask the same thing, dianela. When I grew The Fairy ,she languished in part shade, but became a stellar rose when I moved her in a pot to unrelenting full sun.

@dianela7analabama and @Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley

My Fairy is in full sun all day. There is no sunnier spot on my property - it gets at least 8 hours of sun a day and hot southern sun to boot. Maybe that's why?.

But yes, it is a relatively new rose, I planted it last year and this would be its second season. The blooming was very meh last year but I did not make anything of it given I had just planted it. This year I was expecting an explosion of blooms but nope - not much yet. To be fair, it did go through a late frost, several days in a row, and I also pruned it maybe more than necessary for a first year rose in a pot.

Full of BS already, I need to get rid of all those leaves and spray it.

Not sure what happened but maybe it needs time. Even so, I need something much more strongly colored for the landscape, that can be spotted from a distance. Something of the Coral Drifts' intensity.

I won't give up on the Fairy yet but it will need to find a place in a different spot. That's too prime for its subtle effect.

Kristine, The Fawn is looking lovely in your garden! I got three of them from HCR last fall, tiny little bands. Normally I pot up bands and let them grow for a season or two before I put them in the ground, but I got impatient and put mine in the ground. All three are putting on new growth this spring and even a few buds. I can’t wait till mine look like yours!

Novice it definitely doesn’t get too much sun as mine gets like 10 and we are only 3 hours away from each other. However after trying over 600 roses in the past 7 years I have learned that if you don’t REALLY love it just don’t waste your time with it and try something new. Life is too short! Find something you love.

Definetely!

It's fun fun to make lists of roses!

My Kordes are all lovely, very blackspot free, although some rebloom sparingly in the hot NC summer.

Poseidon

Jasmina

Madame Anisette

Dark Desire

Quicksilver

Plum Perfect

Summer Romance

Non-Kordes, blackspot-free:

Bolero

Dee-Lish

Alexandra Princess de Luxemburg

Mostly blackspot-free and fantastic:

Kateryna

Some blackspot but still great bloomers:

Lady of Shalott

Iceberg

Darcy Bussell

I finally bought Earth Angel, we will see how she does! She might be my most fragrant rose yet.

Here in Malta blackspot is not an issue but powdery mildew is always lurking.

Here are the roses that never ever got any, even when the rose right next to them was attacked. I won't include those that got a little but recovered, just the 100% mildewproof ones. It's a short list!

Olivia Rose Austin

Princess Anne

Desdemona

The Lark Ascending 

Wild Edric 

Autumn Damask

Mutabilis 

Marie Pavie 

Raspberry Kiss

Eyes for You 

Rosomane Janon

There may be more among my new additions but I give them at least two years before evaluating, as I have noticed that some that seemed immune to mildew in their first year or two here disappointingly ended up getting it this spring (looking at you, Heidi Klum). So I will wait and see before recommending.

Ha ha, just when I raved about The Fawn I saw that she has mosaic virus.

Another great rose

Memorial Day

Blue For You

Our Anniversary

@Artist-FKA-Novice Zone 7B GA I was reading a discussion a while back on this forum about 'The Fairy' and there was some speculation that there may be more than one version of it in commerce and one of them performs beautifully while the other is a dud. Perhaps there's some truth to that theory? https://www.houzz.com/discussions/1711254/about-the-fairy

That's very interesting, @Meg-zone8aOR. I have a hunch this is true as I remember seeing pictures and wondering if this is even the same rose. Not a big fan of mine, that's for sure.

This definitely is a possibility. I purchased mine from the Antique Rose emporium

I used to grow it years ago (purchased on clearance from the garden section of my local grocery store) when I knew nothing about roses. It received absolutely no care from me and it grew so vigorously it covered half of my tiny front yard at the time, and was always healthy and covered itself in clusters of tiny pink blooms. If you decide to try it again I know Burlington carries it.