Perhaps you might be better served by selecting two or three roses sufficiently hardy and disease resistant for where you live, then fill in around them each year with annuals so you have the color you desire with a lot less to maintain over winter, as well as much less labor to keep them healthy, properly pruned, etc.? A smaller number of plants which can be permitted to grow larger so they will be able to support the bloom size and quantity you desire because of their greater foliage mass, will provide you with a better, less overwhelming result?

Unless you purchase them as annuals and replant each year, your selection is limited due to your zone rating. While many will look great during the spring and summer, your probable winter severity may well kill them off, particularly in more extreme years.

I think your selection and our suggestions will probably be easier and more productive if you can determine your minimum bloom size desired, and figure out how much winter protection, disease and insect protection you wish to do and how patient you will likely be to prickles attacking you when you have to maintain them.

An alternative is to hit your local garden centers, sometimes even grocery stores, for their small pots of bud and bloom gift roses. Some of them actually have larger (3" to 4") flowers on short plants in four and six inch pots. But, don't expect them to remain that short as they are genetically much larger plants. These have been selected to root easily, grow well and quickly own root and provide those large flowers at a small size. They are intended to be gift plants, like the potted azaleas, hydrangeas, etc. you find in the stores, but they don't remain that small and very likely might not over winter from one year to the next. But, they can provide you with the roses around your gazebo at about the height you desire for the summer they are there. You'll probably have to treat them as annuals, replacing them each year, but that would be one fairly certain way to get the larger bloom size you indicate you desire, and not have to put in a lot of preventative care and maintenance for them from year to year. Kim

It's on sale (through today only) at Heirloom for 50% off.;) They do have other groundcover/smaller sized plants. You could ask them to recommend something for your location. Although this late in the year I don't know if a new rose would have time to mature enough to survive the winter.

Melissa

You could be looking at landscape or ground cover or miniature, even mini flora types to get the sort of plant you seek. Perhaps the landscape and ground cover classifications would provide potentially healthier, hardier types for your situation. The other classifications have slightly different selection criteria, skewed more toward the flower than care free plant. Those selected for landscape use would tend to have less emphasis placed on the individual flower and more on the more maintenance free plant type. Good luck! Kim

Here's a link. If I didn't get it all, search for "pavement on helpmefind.com/rose

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/roses.php?searchNmTyp=5&searchNm=paveme nt&rid=4131&sbSearch=SEARCH&tab=1

Here's the HMF link for pics if you're interested. Good luck in making a choice!
http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.194698
-terry

She's a wonderful rose--big, fat, full blooms, pink; disease-resistant; cold hardy through Zone 5. But she's kinda hard to find since Austin dropped her from his line. However, her popularlity on this forum is high and posters have found other places she is offered. Try the search box below for more information.

Kate