Texas Gardening: favorite rose for Texas, 1 by rouxcrew

rouxcrew wrote:
Since all I grow are antiques, I can give you three choices that are antique, easy care, repeat bloomers and smell great. My favorite is one called Maggie, a fuchsia color that just covers the bush several times a year. This one I have at my front gate where it gets no supplemental water, fertilizer and is planted in plain yellow clay. The bush is reasonably compact.
Another choice would be Westerland, a gorgeous deep orange, smelly rose that blooms several times a year. I also have it planted at my front gate in the same conditions as Maggie. My Westerland is leggy, popping up behind lower plants rather than out in front.
A third choice is Katrina Rose, the Rose that survived being under salt water for weeks after the hurricane ravaged New Orleans. Tons of little blooms in a pale pink, and repeat blooms profusely. It sprawls near the gate to my back yard, it could be a climber but is very attractive as a weeping bush.
If I had to choose one for me, it would be Maggie. I am in love with those blooms.