Syliva -- I grow Cymbaline. It's one of my husband's favorites, with blooms that have a delicate opalescent quality. It's also absolutely disease-free, and fragrant.

For us, it is a sparse bloomer, but may perform more generously in your warmer conditions.

Pookah is considered to be a Polyantha, and was a big winner recently at the Biltmore rose trials. You will love this little guy.

Same experience as Jeri on Cymbaline--stingy bloomer, superb disease resistance.

I see no one has yet replied re. 'Pookah.' It's a rather new rose, and (IMHO) charming. I had it for a while, and lost it, and drought-permitting would like to have it again.

See:
http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.61438

It's a single, which I love -- and it was disease free in my fog-encouraging garden. I can't imagine not loving 'Pookah.'

OH heck -- I should have put the link below:

Here is a link that might be useful: POOKAH on HMF

I'm pretty sure Roseseek has Pookah. Maybe he'll chime in or you could send him a PM.

My Cymbeline is a new arrival. I have 3 buds, should open very soon.
I am interested in experiences with this rose also.

I think I had about the second plant of Pookah when Jimofshermanoaks handed me one from his original plant. In this area, Pookah is what Ballerina SHOULD be, but isn't. Ballerina is terminally chlorotic in every garden I've grown it in and suffers greatly from crown gall, mildew and blackspot. Pookah has none of those issues. It isn't "little", though. Mine regularly hits four feet tall and wide and would likely get larger if it had more water and less competition from the neighbor's twenty foot photinia hedge behind the fence. The color is much darker (even in most of the day southern sun), foliage MUCH denser and greener and much better at supporting itself compared to Ballerina, too. It is a great landscape rose for this area, resembling an ever flowering medium to darker pink with white centers hydrangea. I like the rose much and have used it quite a bit for breeding new seedlings. Of course, I am probably prejudiced in its favor because Jim rooted it for me, but it is, in its own right, a great garden/landscape rose for this area. Kim