I'll have to try Distant Drums. I am thrilled with Buck's Honey Sweet. It is classified as a shrub, but its form and blooms look hybrid tea like. My Honey Sweet is own root from Chamblees. I definitely want to grow more Buck roses. Chamblees added some that are new to commerce recently.
It helps to know which hybrid teas do well for people. It gives me a good place to start.
The new place has some gently sloping hills, so I can put plants like my irises and grafted roses in spots with better drainage. I suspect winter wet is grafted roses main problem in my level, poorly draining, clay soil. We get rapid cycling freeze-thaw in February and March where the ground freezes solid and thaws to soggy mud daily. I also have what i believe will be a sunny but protected area for borderline hardy plants. I will have a better idea of my options once I move in and start digging.
Any hybrid tea would look puny next to my huge, healthy Austins and shrub roses!
