Baronne Prevost was received as a band this Spring and is growing in a one gallon pot. I have yet to see any blooms; but that is okay as it is newer. It seems happy and is growing rapidly.

To throw a monkey wrench in things, I could keep them both; growing almost side by side in the same area by relocating Gertrude Jekyll and planting one of the two roses in its space. I swooned over G.J.'s fragrance on the 4-6 blooms it has produced thus far, but thought the color and shape of the blooms is just okay.... I do not know what will become of the growth habit either. Yet again, for me, Baronne Prevost's blooms remain unseen.

One of these roses will be placed in a focal point position that was once home to a Carding Mill. If you had to choose, which one would it be, Baronne Prevost or Madame Isaac Pereire?

Lynn

Malcolm_manners, roseseek and Jaspermplants,
That is one of my concerns with Baronne Prevost; re-bloom. It would be in a focal point and I would NOT be happy with a once-bloomer there. My Paul Neyron was purchased as a band last summer. It struggled and has bloomed once. It is growing well now as it seems to be responding positively to the higher temperatures... Maybe... I bring P.N. Up because I read that it is a heavier bloomer than B.P.

Right now, MIP is healthier than Baronne Prevost and Paul Neyron, but it was purchased as a one gallon plant versus a band which was the case for the other two.

Jasperm, I hope that M.I.P. Makes it through Hades- (July) here, what was the issue for M.I.P. In your garden?

Lynn

As for Paul Neyron, the secret to getting good rebloom on it, here, is hard dead-heading -- that is to say, really cut it back at each dead-heading. Then it, too, will flower on every flush.

MIP is pretty much once-flowering here; occasionally a flower or two in the autumn, but mostly spring. But of course, it would behave differently in your hotter, drier climate.

I probably have too many roses as I struggle to maintain them sometimes during the ling, hot summer. And, as many others have noted on this forum, there are roses that just do better in certain climates without constant babying, and MIP is certainly NOT one of those for me in hot, dry climate. (Anyone else hate typing on Ipad with dang spell check. I read back over my message and see my words have been changed in the most bizarre ways!)
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I have never grown MIP. When I started to purchase it, I think the vendor encouraged me to select another. It possibly grows taller than what I had wanted.

I regretted shovel pruning Baronne because I had wanted a hybrid perpetual, but it's gone.

Sammy

I am a sucker for the Bourbons, and really like Hybrid Perpetuals. Thus far, in my garden, the Bourbons seem to be performing better.

Gertrude Jekyll may be re-located. Reading information on-line, it seems as though Gertrude Jekyll could be the least remontant of the three?

Lynn

Molineux,

I was thinking of placing MIP in the spot where Carding Mill use to reside; it is in a pot on the other side of the yard right now, and Baronne Prevost in Gertrude Jekyll's spot if I re-locate her. My Gertrude Jekyll is grafted, planted last year and has only produced about 4 blooms total. If it was a band, or even a 1 gallon own-root I would definitely overlook it, but 4 blooms….I had forgotten how long it has been here and that it is grafted. Thank you for suggesting Comte De Chambord. That rose has been on and off my list for year.

Lynn

Lux

MIP is so pretty in photos & she does smell nice, but it's never been healthy or a good repeater in either. As posted above, she gets disease riddled & defoliates, often before finishing out a spring flush, then rarely repeats, even when most roses do in fall.

Baronne Prevost has a nice graceful vase shape, flowers then rests, then repeats, all season long. The flowers are beautiful, with button eyes & smell wonderful.

FWIW, Comte de Chambord hasn't done well for me in either climate. I keep trying because it's beautiful, but it's been marginal, not flowering & looking pitifully chlorotic.