Best Ones (these flowers are not only handsome but will stay there in full bloom for a long time):
- Color Magic: opening flat sometimes in cluster, not fade or wither under the sunlight
- St Patrick: rose with green hue, and best yet, the blossom will stay there until you get tire of it.
- First Prize: name says it all, huge rose in pink
- Ingrid Bergman: Best Red Rose (better than Mr Lincoln)
- Henry Fonda:Very yellow rose, never stop blooming
- Fourth of July: Magic of Stripe
- Donna Darlin: Better than Perfect moment or Rio Samba in its color class, child of double-delight, but better than it when it comes to withstand the heat.
Good (there flowers will make you like them):
- Redgold: oldies but very vigorous, never stop blooming
- Olympiad: bloom a lot and stay for a couple weeks
- Opening Night: same category as Olympiad
- Full Sail: huge white blossom
- French Lace: white with coffee hue in early stage, flowers stay long time
- Gold Medal: gold yellow turns white
- Judy Garland: sometimes it will turns out wonderful yellow red clusters surprising you
- Love: Red/Pink with white/silver reverse, blossom won't fade away or get blow away easily
- Knockout: fiercely pink flower blossom in a relay
- betty prior: fewer petal might not mean worse, same category as Knockout
- Perfume Tiger: never stop blooming striped roses
- Lady In red (Veteran's Honor): more fiercely red and bigger than Olympiad
- Rainbow's End: Rainbow (Colorful)
- Iceberg, Brilliant Pink, & Burgundy ones
- Carefree spirit (lots of flowers in red and pink reverse)
- Showbiz: better than Trumpeter
- Dick Clark
Roses with Stripes:
- All American magic*, Citrus Splash, Fourth of July*, Earth quake, George Burns, Orange n Lemon*, Perfume Tiger*, Purple Tiger, Rock n Roll, Scentimental (* are the ones worth planting)
Average but famous Roses( They smell nice and good looking but not able to stay long enough):
- Double Delight,
- Mr. Lincoln,
- Heirloom,
- Angel Face,
- blue girl,
- Medallion.
- Peace
- Sunsprite
So-so but AARS:
- Love&Peace
- Elle
- Intrigue
- Cinco De Mayo
- Easy Does It
- Livin Easy/Easy Does it
- Sunset Celebration
- Just Joey
- Bonica (lot of flower, probably can hold the world record)
Suckers:
- Perfume delight,
- Mirandy,
- Orchid Masterpiece (like stock, does it ever have a bloom),
- Queen Elizabeth (Very famous, but not able to withstand the strong sunlight)
- Granada: will fade and wither away when sunlight hit
- Arizona (always struggle with Mildew)
- Delta Gold: Child of Arizona, seems having same issue, not very vigorous plant
- Maggie Barry: fade in the sunlight quicker than you think, Color Magic is way better.
Worst Roses:
- Pat Austin (take 1~2 month for it to bloom, but flower only stay for 1~2 day , then wither away fast when sunlight hit and flower is always face-down, purely water-wasting and time-wasting to cut the spent flower)