Hi Pamela,
Thanks so much for following through and posting the pictures - your Danny Boy truly looks wonderful. I am sorry for such a late response - I got sick right after our series of messages and spent the summer going through multiple rounds of strep. My husband's layoff the next summer put me solely in charge of providing for the family and I could not keep up with HMF.
I read about your life in your description and it is wonderful how therapeutic you have found roses to be, just as I find mine. Like you, I am expecting a move as well and don't want to leave my plants behind. I feel pressured to order Danny Boy anyway (available after a long break at Rogue Valley - and will buy now since you confirm it is the right plant, though the San Jose Heritage Gardens' pic looked like orange red, and this blooms pink) and also because it is not so easily available.
Right now, I am trying to recover from my stupid boo-boo of overpruning - pruned Floribundas and Grandiflora (1) as hard as the old garden roses, and no roses this summer for me. The only one who came through okay was Souvenir de la Malmaison. Sharifa, Camelot and Iceberg (Iceberg, imagine that? Takes special skills to bomb at growing Iceberg). New to me last Fall - mini bands of Tropical Sun, Walking on Sunshine, Miss Behavin' and Black Cherry that will most likely not make it ( I have no idea why Jackson & Perkins would ship like that to 6b - it was a gift from family and they did not know this won't work). The last straggler from the gift, Honey Perfume, came in a few weeks ago and is nice and healthy. Right along with a very healthy Zephirine Drouhin.
With a 1000 roses, you probably have all of these varieties but let me know if you need anything and I can try to make a cutting and root it.
Have a great day, Pamela. And thanks again for the follow-through!

Nancy