What PNW Rose for Cutting?

Read your article today in the Tacoma newpaper about the advantages of carpet roses for this area. The growth, drought and disease resistance sound perfect for my sandy soil (Chambers Creek area). I have enough Doug Firs that my sunny spots are not quite full sun either so I’m guessing leaf spot will be an issue. So I’ll try a shrub of those for my wife, the rose lover. My problem is that she also likes cut flowers, preferably fragrant of course, so I’m looking to plant one of something else in my sunniest airiest spot, maybe on a trellis up the south face of my kiwi arbor. New to this area two years ago, and not a rose guy, so no idea what varieties to look at. Ease of care in a variety that that produces a few flowers to cut for the house is what I’m looking for. (I get it from your article that it goes without saying that nothing that I’m going to be looking at will be as easy as the carpet roses for ease of care in this area.)

Posted by John Eastlake on January 30, 2018