No Trash Bags. When I was selling commercially, and when my roses would come in, and the weather was unfavorable to pot them up. I would heel them in, by covering them with a fine grade mulch. Just cover the roots, not the tops. You can lay them on their sides or upright. Don't cover with plastic, bceause you will force them to break dormancy. You want them to break dormancy on their own. They will be fine for a couple of weeks. Make sure the mulch doesn't dry out. Keep moist, but not wet.

Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden Travels

Good luck, hope you get some. That's a wonderful list, unless you go eeny-meeny I don't know how you'd choose from all those wonderful roses. When you heel them in, do it on the north side of a building if you can; sort of nature's fridge?

Thanks for the info.

Here's the scoop and the list of what came home with me today - there may be more coming in the future since the lady who is giving them away had second thoughts on a few.

Her garden is TO DIE FOR! These were some of the happiest roses I have ever seen living the live of luxury in 3 foot deep beds of loose loamy rich soil. Seriously - it was rose heaven! Unfortunately, she is going through a divorce and doesn;t know what the future will hold, so she decided she wants zero maintenance plants since her soon to be ex may end up with the house and will promptly kill all the roses anyway. She decided it was better to give them away to good homes (she did a little interview first to see if I knew anything about roses) rather than have them die of neglect. Fortunately, I passed the interview and was gifted the following:

Ambridge Rose '08
Baronne Prevost '08
Cottage Rose '08
Tuscany Superb '08
Orange Mothersday '08
Jude the Obscure '08
Gene Boerner '08
The Herbalist '08

She had several people there yesterday to dig and more were coming after I left. I probably could have asked for a few more, but I didn;t want to seem piggish about it.

If she decides to part with the following, I am first in line to get:

Distant Drums
OLOG

In return, I am going to give her divisions of 20 or so daylilys, several hostas (I have over 150 named hostas for her to choose from), some heucheras and some iris. They will all be pretty and won't break her heart if she has to ignore them.

I am truly sorry for her current situation, but I think a new gardening friendship has blossomed and she will be welcome to come visit her babies at my house whenever she wants.

All of them have already broken dormancy so I did pot up a couple of them, and some of them are just going to have to spend one night sitting in trash bags, I am exhausted from digging the new bed where they will live! LOL! They will be planted tomorrow... if I can move! LOLOLOL!

Thanks again for the advice!

Alexa

Sounds wonderful, Alexa. You got some great roses and made a new friend to boot. Keep us posted on how they are doing.

Alexa------What a wonderful surprise---new roses and a new friend---I was thinking of you today as I pruned the rose you planted for me.

Hope all is well with you. Call if you have a minute !
Florence

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Sexy Rexy
Brass Band
Lavaglut
The Impressionist
Belinda's Dream