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What is pimpinellifolias?

Dear Bob,

>Gallicas, of which my favourite is Belle de Crecy.>
>I like the gallicas better as shrubs, and they seem 
>a bit hardier and less blackspot prone>

Wonderful. I have no experience with growing Gallicas,
I will look closer into this group of roses. I want a good
hardy shrub without blackspot.  Thanks.

>I intend to put in a number of albas and some pimpinellifolias,>

What is pimpinellifolias ? 
What kind of albas did you have in mind ?

>hard to pass up the Austins>

Aren't those English roses beautiful. I love Graham Thomas,
Mary Rose, Abraham Darby, Othello,... the list could go on.
I had bought (and left at old house) these roses.  They were
grafted. In two years their health was failing, the graft was cracking
and ugly. They just stopped thriving. Even blackspot became a
problem.  Now I am a converted own-root only roses owner.
Perhaps it was bad luck with the grafted, but why waste my time
and money. I don't want to worry about the graft. (winterizing ect.)
How about you ?  Have you had any experience with own-root.

Sincerely,
Carleen from Oregon
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