I always love to hear what others are ordering! I also purchased Soupert et Notting (by suggesstion of another poster) & Juno from Pickering, but received mine back in November. Those red thorns on R. Primula are stunning!!! Someone else was recently talking about that rose and R. Moyesii, I ended up with R. Moyesii (the hips are very unique). You'll have to post pictures once they bloom this spring!

That is brilliant!! If you need REALLY big cheapo "pots," check out Home Depot for an 18-gallon tub with rope handles for about $6. I can't find it on the Web site, but they were near the inside garden area. I picked up a bunch to make self-watering containers for my tomatoes. Looks like Lowe's carries a near-identical 20-gallon tote for $6.98, and a 10-gallon model for $4.88. If you ever want to sink potted roses in the ground, that might be just the ticket. I guess you could just as easily use the standard rectangular tubs they use to make fake Earthboxes, but round ones are easier to cage (in the case of tomatoes) and probably easier to bury. Aaaaaaaand it just occurred to me how to "plant" blueberries in the ground in my alkaline soil! Here is a link that might be useful: Lowe's search for buckets

I have found Pickering to be a very dependable supplier of good quality bareroot roses on their multiflora rootstock and wouldn't hesitate to buy from them anytime. Palatine however has turned out to send me the best bareroot roses on multiflora that I have ever seen. They are superspectacular deluxe and well worth the cost of the rose and the shipping which is a little bit higher than most. The quality they send makes it all worthwhile. Another good multiflora supplier is the budded maidens sold my Steve Singer at Wisconsin Roses--WIROSES.COM . They are super vigorous and by the fall of their first year you can not tell one of the budded maidens from a bareroot and the budded maidens are much easier to plant and tend to than the traditional bareroot rose. I have about 75 of Steve's roses and recommend them highly. John

I finally got around to sitting down and going through the site tonight. You can tell that they cut back on their variaties quite a bit from previous years. Last year I bought quite a few that they were discontinuing, and thankful that I did :) Also, as Beth mentioned, a good amount are already sold out. This year, I placed my order for these: Laguna (the main reason I ordered from them this year..wanted this one very badly after seing some pics of it) Gypsy Boy Tour de Makakoff Kazanlik R. Primula White Cap Yippee! Tammy