Hi Josephine and welcome!

I don't know if you know about the site called Help Me Find Roses but it's a great source for the info you want and much more! I'll post a link below.

I did check there for your rose Piano and I don't see anything in North America listed as a source. And importing roses from Europe is very complicated and takes years of quarantining. There is one garden in the US listed to have it. Maybe you could email them and get a cutting.

Here is a link that might be useful: Help Me Find Roses

Wow! There is not just Piano, but a whole sport family. All look fabulous in the HMF pix.

Judging by HMF evidence only, Christian Evers seems to me like a much more interesting breeder than Hans Jurgen, who, I gather, was mostly involved in supplying the florist trade.

I understand that importing plants has become expensive and difficult. What about importing budwood? And could budwood be sent by mail after all regulations had been complied with and fees paid? Might importing budwood be something any American nurseries want to do, or would that also be prohibitively expensive.

Piano has already been given a North American mass market friendly name, Hope and Glory, so we may hope that someone intends to offer it here in the near future.

Here is a link that might be useful: The family Piano at HMF

Hi there -- what is it in particular that you find enticing about this particular variety? Maybe one of us can suggest something with a similar characteristic that can be obtained stateside.

There are lots of roses that look similar to the photos of Piano posted on HMF.

I've mentioned in more than one thread that Tantau doesn't have an agent in North America so most of these newer roses can't be sold here. Several roses have been poached before they were patented, and have been sporadically available in Canada. I guess Ascot (Palatine) and Augusta Luise (Hortico) are still for sale. Astrid Grafin von Hardenberg can be custom grown by Angel Gardens. Diane

Maybe someone did try to poach, and got as far as the mass market friendly name.

Eurodesert's Morongo Valley, available at Heirloom, shows similar flower shape. I don't know about vase life.

I also thought the Piano family's blooms looked somewhat unique and beautiful.

Looks a lot like 'Francois Rabelais'.

Yep -- I would also recommend Francois Rabelais and also Amadeus (Kordes, 2003) -- which is similar to FR, but a larger plant that blooms in bigger sprays. Both would be available in the U.S. Both of them are healthy bloom machines.

Here is a link that might be useful: Francois Rabelais on HMF