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Aug 23, 2020 9:59 PM CST
Name: John Hunley
E. TN (Zone 7a)
You're welcome, Mike. I actually should thank YOU, since you gave me an excuse to share it. I compiled it ages ago, and I can't swear it's complete. But at least now someone might get some use out of it. It wasn't doing anyone any good sitting on my hard drive, but I'd never really seen a reason to share it. It's nothing that anyone couldn't find on their own, but it's amazing what you'll do at 3am when you're bored and chasing rabbits through the google maze, lol.

More on topic, I've grown several of the no-longer-ADR-roses, and still have:
Iceberg
Dortmond (on its last legs, unfortunately. It's only 40 years old, hehe)
Bonica

Had but now gone:
La Sevillana (martyr to BS)
Robusta (ouch! oooch!)
Westerland (too orange for me, so I now have Autumn Sunset, its sport)
Sparriehoop (RIP from RRV).

Of the current ADR roses, I have:
Pomponella Fairy Tale
Jasmina
Karl Ploberger (the ONLY rose I've bought from Heirloom since the price hike...and probably the last).

As for AARS winners, over the last 40 years I've grown too many to list, lol. Just assume I've grown about 90% of them. Most of them were duds, health-wise. Some were real beauties and at the time I thought they were worth the effort to spray for BS. The keepers even today in my mostly no-spray garden would be:

Bonica (also ADR, see above)
Carefree Wonder
Easy Does It
Tiffany (get it if you like pink. There's no better pink HT even today)

Some AARS winners that I've grown that I WISH I could grow no-spray are:
Brass Band
French Lace
Intrigue
Medallion
Peace

If someone could inject BS resistance into those five roses, I think they might (with the addition of Tiffany!) be the only modern roses I'd grow. They're THAT beautiful.

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