By all means, do plant them in your garden now. Make sure you water them in well. Since it is so warm there, I'd provide them with some afternoon shade for about a week. Place a lawn chair over them or buy some shade cloth and rig up some stakes to attach it to. Since it is so warm, keep an eye on the roses so they don't dry out during the next week or two--but don't drown them either. That can kill them as easily as too little water can. You have some beauties there. Good luck! Kate

The Wedgwood Rose climbs very well and is a prolific bloomer in our Southern California garden. Spring, Summer, and into Fall, the lateral canes need to be cut back pretty regularly and new growth guided through the trellis, you really have to stay up on cutting and training. The scent when you hold the rose up to your nose is light and sweet, if pink was a scent it’d be the Wedgwood, and the soft pink shading is simply perfect! The blooms open fully and last nearly a week on average with new buds blooming all the time in the hot months of summer, note that our trellised roses get morning sun and late afternoon shade.

I have to agree with Carolina. Austins seem to be like some dogs, they go well for one master and fail everyone else. I have a couple such, Evelyn and Gertrude Jeykyll which you will find cursed and derided in threads here but which have such beautiful scents and bloom, they'll be here after I go.'As for the Austins that DA let's go, I fancy he is just making room for the new. I grow one of the oldest ones, Belle Storey and it is an exquisite rose, not on sale very many places with an extremely complex nose and beautiful semi double blooms which open well of a foggy morning. On the other hand L.D. Braithewaite, Prospero,and Abe Darby were highly touted Austins that were absolutely misrerable for me. Maybe you'll find the one woman Austin that loves you but refuses to eat for anyone else. Kind of a quest. la

PnP, I put in a black metal fence around the front part of my yard and plan to grow her on the part abutting my driveway. It's between her and Teasing Georgia... whoever gets to planting size first, but think the colour of JA might suit this place better. I hope to get Quicksilver to plant next to her to mingle a bit and loligag over the fence. I had planned to plant Annie Laurie McDowell next to her on the other side, but all my cuttings froze out. : ((((( My only concern is that her general flower shape will over shadow the more delicate forms of Cornelia and Felicia. I'll just have to see how it goes! : )) I have high hopes for this fence line. : )) The only other person growing her was in BC that I could find. It did GREAT there! Monarda, setting is everything sometimes, isn't it? Comtesse, I will read about first, but usually these bags are so cheap, I think it might be worth a try! If it does BS, at least my friend will understand why it takes me so long to decide on varieties. He's a very impetuous buyer and lucked out with his first roses setting the bar high. Until one has seen formerly beautiful roses completely defoliate, it's hard to understand.