I was just looking online at a nursery close to here and they are pushing the Easy Elegance series of roses as a truly perfect plant and forget rose. I'm guessing they are shrub roses. Here is what they are advertising along with a 2 year warranty which is amazing as most don't guarantee roses around here. The following is what is advertised.

"They are truly exceptional - and here's why:

Each plant is grown on its own root for unequalled hardiness.
They have superior shape and evenness of size with no suckering.
They offer everblooming blossoms all season.
Most importantly - they have unbelievable disease resistance!
"The Easy Elegance® series of roses was born out of a desire to change peoples perceptions about roses. People are no longer fussy about plants that require the use of chemicals to keep them healthy."
In fact, "there are no chemicals used in the breeding or evaluation programs, absolutely none. In fact, in a seedlings' first year they are sprayed with a mixture of powdery mildew, black spot and other disease spores so any roses that show signs of disease are quickly eliminated."

Anyone have any that they can comment on? Seems like a no brainer for someone like me who can't get into the garden many days of the week due to disability. Certainly not a replacement for many of the exquisite HT's but the pics are really beautiful and they come in 11 different colours!

Eric grows Tahitian Moon and maybe will jump in here and comment on it.
-terry

Lance

The reason I picked that rose was that a few summers ago, we had a very wet spring followed by a very humid summer. By August, all the roses at my favorite garden center were so covered in blackspot that all were marked down to 50% off. EE sunrise/sunset had nary a spot on her. She's been a great rose for me.

My knockouts OTOH, get attacked by rose slugs, some get canker, some get powery mildew and all get white spots. EE has never had a problem.

Here's Tahitian Moon

I'm waiting for some repeat, maybe it will come later. This spring it did put up 2 big new canes.

Eric

I just purchased Champagne Wishes as well yesterday, which isn't listed on their site but the tag said it was EE and it was bred by Ping Liam. It's got 11 buds about to open and it looks equally as healthy.

The local nursery in my town carries them for $23.50 and they are in 1 gallon pots. I'd buy more but I think I got 1 of everything they sold this year. Hoping next year they'll have more of them since they are such wonderful roses.

Regardless, these really do live up to the hype as reported, though I agree that no rose is "no care" - at the very least when they're happy, they at least need deadheading! Until the last winter the LIm roses were the only breeder's roses that I've never lost from winter kill (20 out of 20 plants lived), but I did lose some roses that were new late summer plants and my well-established Yellow Submarine (for some reason) last polar vortex winter. Regardless, these roses are among my most reliable rebloomers and tend to be fairly tidy and almost blackspot free. They're more often semi-doubles than very full blooms, like Mystic Fairy - which reminds me of Eutin that's individually unexciting as a bloom but impressive en masse. OTOH, Sweet Fragrance is a double rich peach color that is one of my top 10 roses ever (out of more than 700).

I'll let mine speak for themselves in a few photos:

At the far left here is Mystic Fairy bleeding into the very similar Eutin (both low and dark crimson-pink).To the right of that, with the yellow buds is Yellow Submarine:

Here's Fiesta - a very hardy striped pink/white:

Here's a first year Sunrise/Sunset that's the low pink plant. It has gotten so wide (but no taller) that I've had to tuck the canes into the arch with Illusion behind it to keep them off the sidewalk:

Sweet Fragrance is the lovely fluffy apricot blooms toward the top of this shot, to show you how big she grows. Normally she's blooming from head to foot, but this shot has Carefree Celebration at the base instead:

Aww, come on, Sweet Fragrance deserves a shot all by herself!

Tempted yet?

Cynthia

Wow Sweet Fragrance is absolutely gorgeous. Your gardens are beautiful! I really hope our local nursery carries that one next year. Or at least some other EEs so I can get some different ones than what I purchased this year. I'm only in my second year of gardening and I'm already going to run out of places to grow roses... going to have to get creative. :P Doesn't help that I love Carefree Beauty I bought two of them at once.

Thank you for sharing your photos!

Farmerduck - I'm sorry you aren't able to find any locally. Maybe as they continue grow in popularity you will. :o)

Our local greenhouses (etc) quit selling them awhile back for the same reason.

Why they do not sell I do not know???

I was going to try one but the online vendors that do have them want a mint!

I'll have to check Roses Unlimited as I just now notice your post farmerduck...

I checked Chamblee's online offerings, and I couldn't find one EE rose listed.
They offered some in previous years; I bought some from them. Maybe northerners just don't know what a good source they are for own root roses? Or maybe folks just catch on too late about what's good? I don't know the reason.

However, from a business perspective "not selling" is a good reason; it's a sound good business model practice.

I've noticed that roses Chamblee drops (not the ones listed as currently unavailable, but completely removed listings) are usually gone for good from their mail order listings.

So the lesson I've learned is that if Chamblee's is offering an excellent rose that just doesn't happen to be "in fashion," I'd better order it when I see it offered if I want it from Chamblee.