There are a lot of very good rose suppliers on line. It depends on what kind of roses you are looking for. So concentrate on the antique or Old Garden Roses. Some supply the more modern roses. You've gotten some good ones listed here already but there are many more. Generally speaking nurseries in colder climates will carry roses that do well in colder climates and southern nurseries carry the less hardy ones but that isn't a hard and fast rule. But before you purchase any roses you should research them further to see where and how they grow. There is a rose data base web sit that can help you do that called helpmefind(dot)com(slash)roses. You can look up the varieties that you think you are interested in and find out more about them before you purchase. You can also come back here and post them and ask people to give you their personal experiences with different varieties as well as whatever nursery you plan to order them from.

Agriculture Canada or Ag Canada refers to the Canadian Government's Department of Agriculture. Helpmefind lists several of the Ag Canada Research Stations under "Rose Nurseries" - see link, below. The research stations at L'Assumption and Ottawa developed the Explorer Series of hardy roses and the station at Morden developed the Parkland series. Perhaps at one time, these stations actually offered their hardy roses for sell but I don't think they do at present. Here is a link that might be useful: Ag Canada Nurseries at HMF

Dear Kanuk, Glad to share my experiences. Unfortunately, hybrid rugosas do not make good cut flowers. They drop their petals rather quickly. Sufficiently long stems are always in short supply, too. So it is best to enjoy them in the garden. Also, there is a strong tendency for hyb. rugosas grown on their own roots to 'run at the root' that is, send up suckers, true to the parent plan.They spread over the years in all directions eventually becoming a community/colony with no major crown, but having several canes emerging from the ground spaced at 4-10" intervals. This habit is ideal if one is using hybrid rugosas as a hedge. The canes fill in all the available vacant spaces of ground in the hedge. They will not become so dense so as to choke the bush to a stunted mess, but reach an equilibrium "No more cane space here, must move onto new ground," they could be saying if they spoke. In the already conquered territory only dead canes are replaced. New canes expand farther and farther out in all directions. This is not a good growth habit if one wants a bush that stays put. I hope your RDLH is grafted, it will be easier to control. When grown on a rootstock, such as is Pickering Nursery's cultural practice, suckering is rare. This Canadian nursery of yours is much beloved by so many US customers. It uses rootstock on almost all its roses, and uses multiflora rootstock. Hybrid rugosas grated/grown on multiflora rootstock are very unlikely to send runners unless planted too deply. My next favorite hybrid rugosa is 'Schneekoppe," (Snow Carpet), a refined hybrid rugosa....so many hybrid rugosas have sloppy flowers...comes with the territory. Cupped white blooms with a hint of lilac on a three ft. tall bush. The cupped flower habit holds the otherwise blousy inner petals neatly together. Again, on its own root, in time it will be sending runner growth into its neighbors. Make sure you get it grafted, which practice is falling out of favor, so it may be hard to find a grafted Schneekoppe. Hybrid rugosas are almost iron clad. They can be susceptible to stem girdler, not stem borer (they get stem borer like most other classes of roses do). I had a planting of Martin Frobisher that was infested with stem girdler. The grub of a certain moth or beetle, can't remember which, eats a tunnel below the outer bark, completely girdling the cane in question. It often attacks the biggest most robust canes, about a foot to 18" from the ground. Some canes survive the attack but usually all growth above the "girdle" is compromised/weak. Often the stem above the 'girdle' just dies. The entire stem may die to the ground, and in the worst cases it was apparent to me the entire bush's death was attributed to stem girdling. There is no way of preventing or treating an attack by stem girdler that I am aware. No insecticide or any other means. You can see the girdle. It looks like a swelling from beneath the bark that makes a pronounced ring around the stem. A stem can have more than one girdle. Non-hy. rugosas are not as prone to stem girdler. So, there's the good, bad, and the ugly on hybrid rugosas. Throntorn BTW, your RDLH has an exceptionally beautiful flower form, unlike most hybird rugosas.

If you don't mind ordering from BC, they sell own-root Prairie Joy at Cedar Hollow Rose Farm. Sharon Here is a link that might be useful: Cedar Hollow Rose Farm