Henry wrote:

I'm close by (Gaithersburg). My Graham Thomas is very tall and not
particularly dense. It could do with a bit more sun. If you have a
good bit of space, I'd recommend planting a group of them together,
perhaps two feet apart in a triangle. Then treat it like one large
shrub. The color is wonderful, the fragrance is nice early and then
seems to fade. (I wonder if that's a factor of the amount of sun,
also?) Not a small rose.

Well, hello, to a fellow Marylander. Thanks for the advice re Graham
Thomas, but IMHO, a rose should be able to stand on its own merit. If
I'm buying more than one GT, that's fewer different roses that I'm able
to buy. And it's more $$ in David Austin's pocket so he doesn't have to
breed roses that can stand on their own.

Personally, I like Austin's roses. Some take a few years to get really
set but I think they are pretty once established.

I did like my LD Braithwaite's, and I'm looking forward to GT. David
Austin just needs to have a decent enough rose to grab my atterntion.

BTW - where in G'burg are you?