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Brandy hybrid double tea has been a stellar performer with multiple bloom periods - up to four times per year, incredibly beautiful bud shape - totally disease free.  It has a wonderful apricot color.  It's a tea rose that thinks it's a floribunda.  I've specified it for clients, and they love it as well.  It is also widely available.  It is easy to care for -- less is more --deadheading spent blossoms, a little fertilizer, light pruning in January --that's it.

The cl. rose "Westerland" grows against a mostly west-facing house wall and receives no direct watering, yet blooms reliably every spring to early-mid summer.  I treasure it for its soft orange flowers ("soft" because they are not a shrieking orange, but a blend of orange, pink and yellow that reads as a single "soft" orange color) and its magnificent rose fragrance. The fragrance alone makes it worth growing, but it also shades that entire wall in summer, significantly reducing the heat gain in that room. Though I do not give it its own water, I am sure its roots reach over and steal from my raised vegetable beds.  I don't begrudge it.