Hi Carla, here I am! Just made a great road trip today - went to Chamblees, Blue Moon Gardens, the Edom Art Festival. My SO was a very good sport, never a complaint. We ate at his favorite mexican food resturant, so he came back full and happy! He even picked out a rose for his fence - a $2 Eden from the sale bin!! [he better plant it quick or else I will!] I didnt exercise much self restraint.......here are the Bucks I got. If anyone grows these, would love to hear a comment! Do-Si-Do Pearlie Mae Iobelle Country Song Frontier Twirl Griff's Red Malaguena Sunbonnet Sue [already have one of these, but needed another!] Prairie Sunset Prairie Star [thanks to all the enablers - this is a favorite of Maria at Chamblees too!] Mountain Music Rural Rhythm I also had to have: another Allister Stella Gray, then got Molineaux, Pat Austin, Cl. Westerland, Cl. Jacob's Robe and Meredith Bohls. And in the sale bin - some real finds: huge and healthy Thomas Affleck, Pink Gruss Au Auchen, Puerto Rico, White Katy Road Pink, Reine de Violettes, and Red Hearts. 25 in all......I cant wait to start digging in the morning! These Chamblees roses are SO healthy! I wish you all who order roses by mail could see these plants - Cinco de Mayo can be sold in 10 days........I need more of those sale roses........I think I will go back after I get these planted......will sneak up there one day during the week...... Judith

Growlove, i live in north sioux city and i did a lot of research on buck roses and finally decided on prairie star and enchanted autumn both bucks from chamblees. They are both own root as i felt it was best to start with own as a first year gardener. They have been in the ground since the middle of april and both doing wonderful! Enchanted autumn has more than doubled in size already and has 8 buds ready to pop right now. I do not spray, only water on the leaves and they need no winter protection. I love both of them so far even though they are still very young. And they were in excellent shape when chamblees got them to me. I would LOVE to see your garden with all your hybird teas, i bet it is gorgeous! I would like to try my hand at just a few, since they need so much protection, which i would have to learn to do. Also, if you ever need any help in the garden, i would live to help in exchange for a rose or two and some advice. :) the photo is encjanted autumn bloom. Beautiful!

Beautiful and I love the name, too! We go through phases here of posting lots of Bucks, then all is quiet. There was someone on here last year that had many wonderful Buck rose photos. Anyone remember who it was? Kathy

Valrose FL Zone 8b your American Legacy is stunning !! Agree with Val about Buck roses. I'll wait until Roses Unlimited summer sale mid-June, then order a few on sale (for $14) plus a bunch of Buck roses full-price at $19 each. I can see why Rose Unlimited STOP SELLING water-hogs zillion-petals with great perfume like Grand Dame and Betty White. Betty White survive 4 winters until we had a a dry winter/spring then it died (planted up in a hill). In my zone 5, we have 2 rose parks nearby: Chicago Botanical Garden with over 5,000 roses, and Cantigny rose park with over 1,200 roses. Buck roses ARE THE BEST LOOKING BUSHES at Chicago Botanical Garden, beating French and Austin roses. The prettiest roses that I had seen in my life (after visit to Elizabeth Rose garden in CT with 15,000 roses) ARE STILL BUCK roses, perfect in shape since they survive winter and drought well plus disease-resistant. I was into zillion petals roses and didn't care for Buck rose, until a friend in Texas sent me Prairie Harvest, it survives 9 winters and looks better each year !! It's my prettiest and most neglected bush (planted up hill), while hybrid teas are down to my ankle, and Austin roses get crazy with octopus canes after my zone 5a winter. Folks from zone 10/11 hot Hawaii, to my friend in Texas (100 F in summer), to DRY & HOT New Mexico rave about Buck roses in HMF. So I spent 2 days researching on Buck roses, plus consulting with Paul Redfern in my Chicago area who grows several of them. These are the best Buck which are very winter-hardy & drought-tolerant plus bush-beauty: Deep orange Honeysweet and pink Hawkeye Belle plus Quietness plus light orange Prairie Sunrise (folks rave about its scent). Possibly Joseph F. Lamb (dark red with 6 days vase-lie) or Iowa Belle (bi-color) or Enchanted Autumn (orange). All have great scent. Here's link of Buck Roses: https://www.extension.uidaho.edu/publishing/pdf/bul/bul0874.pdf Hi Neighbor (seen at Chicago Botanical garden) plus Simon Estes plus Polonaise (blooms last 2 weeks in the vase) are the BEST-LOOKING BUCK BUSHES but no scent. Last night I did a search on "favorite buck rose" in HMF' Q & A tab (on the left side), and someone who grew 20 varieties of buck in hot & dry New Mexico stated that April Moon is her favorite. April Moon gets wide 3' x 4', but it has the best-looking foliage & fragrant. Buck rose Iowa Bell is absolutely beautiful plus almost thornless (need more water). It's mentioned by one who grows lots of Buck roses. here's a comment in HMF "Iobelle made it through our extremely harsh winter with about 50 percent dieback, while Mystic Beauty and Cymbeline died. I would say that this rose is probably hardy to Zone 5? It performed about as well as Sugar Moon but is growing back much faster. I garden in Zone 6b CT but we had a Zone 4 winter!" https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.3402.1&tab=32 "That's my Buck story-Favorites are Apple Jack (with scented leaves),Polonaise(non stop red shrub) Earth Song(my wife's favorite) Honey Sweet(there was bed of these outside Kildee Hall in the mid 70's striking and fragrant), Summer Wind, Prairie Harvest,(tall yellow shrub) and ElCatala. just planted April Moon. Have grown Amiga Mia in Iowa in the 90's unprotected every winter. It reached 36" and preformed well in landscape. Moved to New Mexico in '97 planted 2 own root Amiga Mia's in 2000. We experience hardly any die back here in the Rio Grande valley. This rose is a 5 - 6 feet and have to heavily prune back each year-it is a show stopper. Would recommend anywhere." Initial post 9 JUN 06 by NMrose High Country roses in zone 6, Colorado (dry climate) carry a good selection of Buck roses: https://www.highcountryroses.com/category/special-collections/dr-griffith-buck-roses/