Leonie's Appoline, Lady Alice Stanley, Duchess of Albany and Souvenir de Pierre de St. Germain are other roses of mine that may not be found in every garden.

What about everyone here? I'm sure quite a few of you must be proud owners of unusual and rare roses. It would be fun and educational to learn about them.

Ingrid

Kim's Annie Laurie McDowell is the most unusual, it's green to the tip now, zone 5a, and 100% thornless. Another unusual is Robert Neil's CAROP thornless blue rose, second descendant from Kim's Joyberry. That one still has green leaves, and that's a miracle for a tiny rooting outside in zone 5a.

Check out Robert Neil's newly created REALLY BLUE thornless and fragrant rose below:

I don't know that I have any really "unusual" roses -- tho we have a few that are found, and not available in commerce.

"Pulich Children," "Jesse Hildreth," "Legacy Of The Richardson Family," "Durst Plot," "Ladyfingers," "Orange Smith," Rosa arkansana "Peppermint Candy," -- Foundlings of ours and those of other Rose Sleuths. 'Mel's Heritage,' 'Lupe's Buttons' -- Seedlings from the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden.

But I don't know if Uncommon could equate to Unusual.

Jeri

Jeri

Another is Andenken an J Diering, a climbing rose I like very much! I have to get new pictures of that one (well, all of mine). I saw some Japanese pictures of a mature one, and I can't wait till mine matures more.

Sophie's Perpetual. It's been mentioned here before, but not very often. Some call it a China. Vintage calls it a Bourbon (and they're description uses the word unusual!) It's most likely a Bourbon China hybrid. Twiggy, thornless, china-like growth with flowers that darken in the sun, but a nice Damask fragrance. The first flowers on mine were nearly single, but there's a flower open now that is quite double. I will try to take pics tomorrow.

I also have an old Ralph Moore miniature/polyantha/wichurana seedling from 1953 called Frosty. It hasn't bloomed for me yet, but is supposed to have snow white flowers with green styles in the center and a strong honeysuckle fragrance. Also thornless.

My two DDR roses are probably unusual too, Salzaquelle and Wartburg 77, both bred by Hermann Berger at the East German production cooperative Roter Oktober. Wartburg 77:

I, too, have found Euphrates to be very long lived. I've grown Tigris and Nigel and lost both over the years, but this piece of Euphrates is still one of the original rooted suckers from that plant I imported directly from Harkness back in the mid eighties. It isn't happy here and it has mildew, something neither Tigris nor Nigel ever had to contend with, but this plant flat out REFUSES to die! Kim

Very interesting and certainly inspiring to read about the unusual roses growing in the gardens of other Antique Rose Forum members!

Christina

Comtesse Emmeline de Guigne' is not rare, but I rarely come across it in other gardens.
I found a cream sport on a plant in a public garden and have waited 3 years for it to grow to large enough so I can propagate from it by taking 3 cuttings, and still leave a good amount of sporting section upon the sport parent. If I can get to that garden this January (I have an injury that keeps me from driving) I'll take cuttings from it, (I've had a permission letter, to do this for a few years now). The blooms are the size and shape of another Tea; Catherine Mermet, but the petals are glossy and cream.

'Cemetary Musk' seedling I bought this at the Sacramento Cemetary sale intending to use it in a white rose border, but I should have visited the plant in the garden first, my mistake, for it is a pink Noisette, not a white Musk.
It is a fetching five petaled pink rose, with the regular re-bloom of a Noisette, and the foliage is so healthy and attractive that I regularly use it in bouquets, and it is still blooming now, ten days before Christmas.
I left Celsiana and white Rose of York, when I moved, and though they are not unusual, they are rarely seen where I live near San Francisco, ca. Oh, how I miss them!

Luxrosa

I like newly bred exotic roses because the disease-resistant is superb compared to OGR's that gave me trouble: either BS-ridden, or don't bloom often. The 3 roses I got from Robert Neil are 100% clean, zero BS here.

Here's another newly bred reddish purple from Robert Neil, its non-official name is JACXSMO:

Here in my zone 5a, LYGXCHT is 100% healthy, zero blackspots in our rainy fall. It's still green until hard frost hit Dec. 12, the root system is good, and I hope it will survive winter with dirt mounded on top. It's fruity fragrant, peachy-yellow, many petals. Check out the link below for this new, VERY disease-resistant rose: