Go to Heirloomroses.com and look at the Griffith Buck winter hardy roses.
Almost no care and tough to wistand Ohio winters.
Another choice is Sally Holems the best rated shrub rose in the USA.
Edmundsroses.com in Wilsonville Oregon can sell you this one. It does grow
large and needs no chemical control for spraying and it stays covered with
white to off white flowers all seasons. Blooms in clusters link a hydranga.
Hybrid Musk rose.
John Grunden
Seattle
"Karen Fletcher" wrote in message
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I'm helping a friend who is in turn helping a relative select a 'romantic'
but tough and well-behaved rose for planting at a gravesite in central
Ohio. Repeat bloomer would be nice.

This really will need to be a plant it and forget it rose since the only
groundskeeping done there is mowing.

Thanks for any advice!

-- Karen