I ordered roses that don't attract JB's so that I could add these to the daylily beds. I made lots of room last year so that this could be done. No matter how much I like daylilies and my other plants nothing out shines a rose bush. It's time to get over RRD, JB's, rose midge, thrips and spider mites. On to enjoying the roses. 3 - Icecap 1 - Take It Easy 6 - Oso Easy Lemon Zest

I bought a Double Delight at Home Depot ($13). They had Mister Lincoln, Veteran's Honor, Love& Peace, Electron, Firefighter and many others. I was surprise to see all these roses there! I also found Summer Romance at Lowe's. It was the first time I saw this rose. I might go back there and buy one! I bought Twilight Zone on Breck's. It will be here tomorrow. I'm excited!

@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 am pretty sure they are on Doc Huey. So far so good on these. I just remembered, that I did have an issue with one of the Distant Drums. It had some cracking around the base. I notified Edmunds and they sent me a new one right away and told me to keep the old one. So the customer service was really good for me with that issue. I am in NE FL so the nematode issues arent as bad as in So FL. Our soil is different. I believe we have some nematodes in the sandier areas. There is a lot of forest land with thick oaks, pines, etc here so the soil in those areas is rich. Some areas are a combination of sand and richer soil. I have some areas on our property that have straight orange clay and poor drainage. I have been using manures and do vermicomposting etc and try to be as organic as possible (although not 100%). I think all that has helped alot. We have mostly wooded areas on our property but there are some sandy areas where it is more challeging to grow stuff. But after 6 yrs of compost, those areas are much better than they were.