Not really.
I've had some great AARS roses and some stinkers.
Although AARS test gardens are scattered through the country and in all growing zones, I've seldom found one that performs well in all zones. They seem to be better suited for warmer and temperate growing areas, not so much for zones 5 or less.
I don't buy a rose based on a AARS rating. I wait a year or so to see how well it does in the average rose growers garden where it may be subject to some neglect.
If it still gets raves, it may be a winner then.
As with the J&P Rose of the Year and other J&P award roses, I believe the AARS award is a selling tool to sell lots of roses to unsuspecting buyers. Every year hundreds of thousands of AARS award roses are sold based only on the fact they got the award. I've read too many bad reports on them over the years to get real excited over them. Another way to tell if they are good is how long they stay in commerce. How many of those given that award in the past 5 or more years are still around?

ALL-AMERICA ROSE SELECTIONS WINNERS 1991-2008
2008
Mardi Gras
Dream Come True
2007
Rainbow Knock Out
Strike It Rich
Moondance
2006
Wild Blue Yonder
Julia Child
Tahitian Sunset
Rainbow Sorbet
2005
About Face
DayDream
Elle
Lady Elsie May
2004
Honey Perfume
Memorial Day
Day Breaker
2003
Whisper
Eureka
Hot Cocoa
Cherry Parfait
2002
Starry Night
Love & Peace
2001
Marmalade Skies
Glowing Peace
Sun Sprinkles
2000
Knock Out
Crimson Bouquet
Gemini Coral
1999
Betty Boop
Fourth of July
Candelabra
Kaleidoscope
1998
Fame!
Sunset Celebration
First Light
Opening Night
1997
Scentimental
Timeless
1996
Carefree Delight
Livin'Easy
St. Patrick
Mt. Hood
1995
Brass Band
Singin' in the Rain
1994
Secret
Carribean
Midas Touch
1993
Solitude
Sweet Inspiration
Child's Play
Rio Samba
1992
All That Jazz
Pride 'n' Joy
Brigadoon
1991
Shining Hour
Sheer Elegance
Perfect Moment
Carefree Wonder

I keep watching to see if Molineux(Patrick) has posted his famous list, but I haven't seen it lately, and now that my roses have finally started blooming, I want to compare what I think I smell with everyone else's experience. So far, Mr. Lincoln is tied with Fragrant Cloud as my favorite fragrance (one cut bloom fills the air for days), with Lemon Spice, Oklahoma, Double Delight and Full Sail right behind. I have baby (bands) Alec's Red, Jude the Obscure and Velvet Fragrance that will be another year before they're big enough to start stinking up the place.

I've got my 'Want List' spreadsheet started with Chrysler Imperial heading the list, but would like to add to it.

So, what is your best 'can't live without it, no holds barred' fragrant rose?

Thank you, Laura

Here is a link that might be useful: Rose Survey 2005

Suppose that at some point in the season you spray your garden with both tebuconazole and an efficient and instantaneous sporacide and suppose you manage to kill all established infections and all spores. What would happen? Well, any new infection would have to come from spores traveling in from outside your garden. Exactly how bs spores manage to travel is still an open question but nearly everyone agrees that they have exceptionally poor mobility. In bs Hades, you might see a new infection in 3 weeks or so (tebuconazole is supposed to remain effective for 2 weeks and it takes about 1 week for a new infection to become established and visible). In bs Purgatory, where I live, I suspect you might not see a new infection for a month or more. In many cases, I suspect only a few bushes would be infected and then only on a few leaves. You would then have the option of spraying your entire garden with the combo spray, or you might choose to spray only the infected plant and perhaps its immediate neighbors, or you might simply choose to wait until the infection becomes objectionable and then spray. The point is that you would have flexibility and, in gardens like mine, you might have to spray only a few times in an entire season.

One key to success with this plan lies in identifying an "efficient and instantaneous" sporacide. Tebuconazole, itself, kills spores, but I suspect only during the act of germination. Rosemania describes Mancozeb as a spore killer, but I have seen no evidence that it operates efficiently and instantaneously or at any point prior to germination. The thing is, you don't want to kill spores one at a time as they germinate, the law of averages will get you. You want to wipe them all out at once. There are lots of things that do kill spores on contact. Horticultural oils, sulfite solutions and lime/sulfur probably do so, but I think the really efficient all-around sporacides are the things we use to disinfect pruners, things like hydrogen peroxide, bleach or alkylammonium salts (the stuff that’s in Lysol household disinfectants). I wouldn’t want to spray bleach, maybe I might spray hydrogen peroxide in dilute form (ZeroTol is a commercial hydrogen peroxide-based fungicide) but I think the Lysol stuff sounds most appealing (Consan Triple Action 20 or Physan 20 are commercial sources labeled for roses).

A side question: If these things can wipe out all the spores in your garden, why don't people use them now? It's because they have almost no residual effect and because they don't kill established infections. Under the old assumptions for bs control, it was pointless to wipe out all the spores in your garden in one instant if the established infections could pump out billions of new spores in the next instant.

Returning to reality for a moment, it's actually hard to test a bs program to see how well it's working. I suspect, at best, that in bs Hades, all you might really accomplish is replacing Mancozeb with ZeroTol or with Consan. Even that might have some advantages in cost and safety. Mancozeb is a suspected carcinogen while ZeroTol and Consan are not. ZeroTol is probably eligible for organic certification and the ingredients in Consan are used in household cleansers - at about ten times the concentration used for roses.

2. Prairie Star (by Dr.Griffith Buck) - stunning hybrid tea bloom form on a very healthy bush, divine fragrance!

3. Rose de Rescht - bougth at Walmart as a 'body bag' - turned out to be a top performer in my garden, very nice full bush and lots a lots of blooms

4. Wedding Cake - a beautiful novelty from The Uncommon Rose

5. Another 'newer' D.Austin rose - Wisley - profusion of blooms and very good bush form

6. Phantom of the Opera - stunning bright red single - just take a look

7. Sandra Renaissance - a HT (?) from Poulsen, I love the bloom form, the color and the compact growth habit

8. Moore's Striped Rugosa - a Hybrid Rugosa from Ralph Moore - unusual striped blooms on a Rugosa

9. Old Port - a prodidy of Stephen's Big Purple

10. Cafe - an older Kordes rose but very 'modern' color-wise and 'old-fashioned' bloom form

11. Basye's Purple Rose

12. Acropolis - an unusual rose from Meilland

13. Well Being - a beauty from Harkness

14. Janice Kellogg - a dark red beauty from Meilland

15. Clementina Carbonieri - bought at Ashdown Roses in September this year

16. A Floribunda (by Gene Boerner) - Chic

And, the last but not least...

17. An unidentified rose I rescued this past spring (I believe some kind of antique rose)

Any branches (called laterals) coming out of these main horizontal canes, trim back to 2 - 5 inches or three buds, depending on the rose. Trimming the laterals creates spurs, each of which will bloom. If you were to let the laterals grow, they would shoot skyward and you'd get only flowers at the tips.
This is all for your future reference.
Because you already pruned your climbers just let them be. Wait thill spring, there is a good chance you will not get any flowers in spring due to your pruning. Just be patient, the new long canes will grow from the base and eventially bloom. If it is a onceblooming climber you will most probably not have any blooms next year. However if it is a reapeat blooming climber you most probably will see some blooms later next summer.
Olga

It says after the first hard frost.

Here is a link that might be useful: Winterizing Roses