I bought raspberry twirl and rainbow's end bare root fom Edmund's this year. (among an order of about 10 roses). Raspberry twirl grew and is now healthy. It made 1 flower but squirrels ate it as a bud and I never saw it open. The squirrels have since pruned it again. It's potted, I'm trying to figure out a place for it to climb. Need to plant in the ground soon before winter. The plant is healthy but haven't seen a flower since. Incidentally, Rainbow's end failed to grow. I reported it and got $10 store credit. I bought it on clearance. I already have 2 Rainbow's End roses from last year bought for $3.99 each at Menards. Both are prolific at flowering and survived the winter (1 indoors, one outside without protection.)

Last year Edmunds was not Edmunds any more but Jung. However, before Edmunds sold out the nursery and the name to Jung I got a very disappointing clone of Maria Shiver from Edmunds. By the time I realized that the rose was doing nothing (wasn't dead but still a dwarf that barely flowers) Edmunds were not available any more. The other roses I got from them in the same order were disappointing, too but at least they bloom more or less (rather less than they should). My guess is that their growers didn't pay much attention to the quality having got the wind of Edmunds closing down. Jung probably could not or didnÂt inspect the crop  they might have assumed that they would get the quality Edmunds gained the name for.

@magizz I had an almost identical scenario as you with Edmunds this year (today). I ordered my roses super early, they took my money (unlike Amazon, who does not charge you until they finalize and ship the actual order), and then I was notified months later that three of my roses were cancelled due to "crop failure." I understand (now) that this is how some mail order nurseries often work, but I think it's bad form to sell a product and collect people's money before you have the product in stock. It's a kind of deception (in my opinion). So they potentially gets hundreds or thousands of people's cash up front to fund their operations and get them thru the winter, and then, when they no longer need the $$$ they are able to refund our orders of roses. I am such a pessimist right now. Anyway, the money was refunded from the cancelled roses. Fine. I took a few days to review my remaining order and determined that because of the roses that were cancelled (by them), my design plans wouldn't work anymore, and I asked if they could cancel two additional roses (I still have several coming that I was not interested in cancelling). They wrote me back within minutes to say that my order is already being processed and they cannot do that. But of course when I asked when my roses were being shipped, they give me a two month range. So they can obviously cancel on their end, no problem, at any stage of the game, but we cannot modify our order after that whatsoever. I sent a remarkably kind response suggesting that they give folks a window to adjust their order further if Edmunds cancels anything so that we can get what we really want. I spent over $400 on this year's carefully crafted order. I can wait until next year to finish the design, but it is all so frustrating, and I feel deceived. And don't bother trying to return a product. They won't refund you--only give you a credit voucher for a future rose purchase (which will also likely be cancelled due to 'crop failure'). Compare that to the experience of buying bands from A Reverence for Roses or Rogue Valley Roses--they only sell what they have in stock, and it arrives looking great (albeit the wrong rose often with RVR hahaha, a different conversation). Heirloom also sells product they have and don't make it available unless it's sellable. I'm hoping that what I do receive is GREAT quality. Otherwise, that's it for me and Edmunds. Thanks for listening to my rant. Gonna pour myself a glass of wine now. :)

I got some I already have: Florentina is new- Going in the new Red & Cream garden area. Love Song- is a replacement for one that hated me. I blame Diane for making me want another one with all her luscious lavender & purple rose photos lol. Peach Swirl..I have several of these because I love them and so do the treefrogs! I dont know why they are so obsessed with striped roses but they are! EarthAngel - because I used the two that I had over by the side of the barn and I need another one for the new bed, that I am just starting out front. She is one of the few globular shaped roses that I have, besides jude lol. I really need more!