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Roses in the Midwest

My tea roses are starting their second biggest wave of blooms (the first
one was in late June).

Is anyone else on the list from the Midwest?   I'd like to know what
roses do well in your garden (I'm in suburban Chicago).  The roses in my
garden that wintered over well in my garden this year were - Portland
Rose Festival, a red and silver hybrid tea, Electron, a deep pink hybrid
tea, and Reines des Violettes, a lavender hybrid perpetual (all my roses
survived last winter, although a couple are on their last legs).

I added several new roses this year - minis, hybrid teas, floribundas, a
grandiflora, a bourbon, a shrub, and a rambler.  The hybrid tea - St.
Patrick's Day (yellow), and the floribundas - Gipsy Carnival
(red/yellow) and Sheila's Perfume (pink/yellow), seem to be the
healthiest so far, however, St. Patrick's Day had some problems with
spider mites earlier in the year.

Portland Rose Festival and Peace are probably the most prolific bloomers
this year.   I've been fertilizing more frequently, alternating Alaska
Fish Fertilizer (very stinky) and Miracle Gro for Roses, every two
weeks.  I've also added epsom salts a couple of times this year, and
started out the year fertilizing with a mixture of bone meal, blood
meal, cottonseed meal, and fish meal.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I don't spray at all, other than the
Safer that I tried using earlier in the year.  I have tried using the
Safer fungicide (sulfur) on one of my Bourbons that seems to be
developing blackspot.

To Duncan McAlpine - I took a look at your garden - it's gorgeous.  How
many years did it take to get to that point?

L. Weiland
Zone 5
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