My black jade was covered in Mildew. It was planted on the east side of the house, got morning sun only for about 3 hours a day... Was right next to the house with no circulation... a combination of lack of sun and lack of air had the poor thing practically white... I would have bought another and planted it elsewhere, but I don't like the yellow stamens when it opens...

Thank you for answering, meltednorthpole. Sorry it took so long to reply. I couldn't find the thread when I looked to see if someone had answered. LOL! How did you find out the actual shipping date on your roses? By calling them? Glad about the FedEx. They like to come here first thing in the morning unlike USPS and UPS who like to deliver my stuff very late in the evening. I hate to think of the roses in a hot truck for who knows how long. And unfortunately, NE Georgia is back to it's usually temps this week. It's now technically 85, but with a real feel of 98! If anything gets planted outside it'll have to be 1st thing in the A.M.! :D

I would agree with you except that as I mentioned, they were indoor plants, and I'm sure I had them shipped during the winter/early spring so shipping wouldn't have "cooked" them. Unless I am misunderstanding your comment? I do know the climate here is extremely dry, much different than in PA, and my roses constantly got powdery mildew in the house here in Phoenix; yet in PA I rarely if ever had that problem. Since then I've been monitoring the humidity inside and it's been pretty constant at between 20 - 25% (of course outside it gets as low as 1%). I'm guessing Burlington Roses is no longer in business? A quick search brought up cached webpages but no current website. I do remember a favorite micro mini that I loved so much, I named my cat after it in PA - it was called "Spice Drop". It was a pretty small pink micro mini and did extremely well in PA, but when I got the same variety here, it got powdery mildew to the extent I couldn't save it. I got pretty discouraged about raising roses in general that I just stopped even looking at them. Although I see a lot of "tough" roses being raised outdoors here, obviously none are minis. I'm solely looking for a tiny indoor pot rose to try my hand at again. Perhaps in October/November when it starts to get below 100 reliably I will restart my search efforts.

Tammy and Andrew, please be patient with us at Nor'East. We got caught a little off guard when we announced that we were going to stop selling retail and focus on our wholesale business. We saw more orders hit us then we had seen all year to date. There are only 1 1/2 people who input all of the orders and we literally had everyone on the farm who could use a computer inputting orders. We stopped taking orders on the website so we could take care of existing orders. We still have plenty of plants of almost all of the varieties. We just needed to get caught up in the office and take some time to reorganize the greenhouses, clean up the plants and double check our numbers. As soon as we accomplish all of this we will start taking orders again. Thanks so much for everyone's support and business, Bill De Vor