I agree with the Crimson Bouquet. It's the best small sized rose bush in my garden too. I'm surprised not more people grow her. Thanks for this review and others comments as well, because I had no idea of all the places to get good roses. I should relay my experience too with the few I have ordered from. Heirloom: good healthy plants but only two have bloomed in their first year. I am assuming that's normally the case with new roses and for own root. I bought two Earth Angels and both are sending blind shoots. Red Minimo bloomed like crazy. Blue For You bloomed like crazy. Abraham Darby is too new to say. I personally like Heirloom but it is very expensive I must say. All their roses have sent basals from the roots so I am happy. J&P: I recieved one band of Ballerina that hasn't bloomed and I don't expect it to till a few years but is doing great! I got two bareroot roses that are doing fine as well. One is Heirloom which was free and is doing exceptionally well and Spice it Up which is taking a little long to establish. I will say I have some pest eating the buds before they can form properly and that may have been the problem with the two EAs as well not blooming yet. High Country Roses: I got a Paul Neyron where the top growth looked amazing and there was an ok amount of root mass. It didn't fall apart when I transplanted it so I am waiting to see how it does. Rogue Valley Roses: I got three bands from them and while the root mass on all of them was massive the stems look a very sickly yellow and one stem on one plant of the two is maroon with some white stuff on it. Still waiting for them to look better. They are starting some signs of new growth as the bud eyes are starting to swell. Hopefully they will be ok. I got a Dakota Redwing, Yves Piaget, and Bouquet Parfait. I needed a couple shade tolerant roses. Yves is the only one going in a pot in the front. That's only if it starts growing more before the fall cutoff planting time too. I need to try Palatine this fall if they get the roses I want back in stock. Also K&m sounds good too. I did preorder from David Austin for next year and it was my first time. I hope it won't be a disappointment. The only thing that is a bit confusing to me personally is the nurseries that just have a list of roses with no real way to know which are currently in stock. There is no online cart. How do you order? Call or email? Sorry nooby here!

Coincidental that its in Oregon and gets its stock from Heirloom? I wonder if Heirloom is scaling back or, even worse, getting out of the business........I like the play on words for Mr. Lindseys nursery though. Clever fellow. I'm just tickled pink that we are talking about a new rose nursery opening up not another one biting the dust (but then back to my original musing).

At the risk of sounding like a big idiot, I think that while the many people who advocate potting up baby clems are speaking from a lot of experience, I have to say, there are undoubtedly also those out there who have a lot of experience and say the opposite. I have grown (and killed) my fair share of clems, and I've concluded that in my garden you almost have to really try to kill them if they're planted in the ground, whereas killing them in a pot is way easier. It might depend on your soil, your zone, your latitude, your average rainfall, and most definitely on your style of gardening. If you're the tough love kind of gardener then you might want to put them in a well-tended bed, but if you're a meticulous sort they may do better for you in pots. Under our hot Ozark sun, nothing is really ever safe in pots unless you're there monitoring it all the time. If you put them directly in the ground, they will take a break for awhile (to put down awesome roots), and you may think they are not thriving. It may be next year before you see any real growth, but when they get going, look out. They will not suffer performance-wise from spending their baby days in the ground. It always seems to me that wilt affects the bigger plants that are growing a bit too fast, and don't have the root system necessary to support all that top growth. I have never personally seen a baby clem with wilt. But I have not seen it all, I realize. So, FWIW... When you're just starting out, it never hurts to try it both ways (like all of us seem to have done), and then you'll learn what works best for you in your garden.

Alina..when you read the old adage that "Clematis loves their roots cool and their heads up in the sun"..what that is trying to get across to the reader is just this...Clematis roots like to "stay moist"..that is why you always keep them watered and also plant them 2-4 inches deeper than the pots you get them in deeper planted=staying moist...always soak bare roots overnight and plant in a one-gallon pot with a handful of bonemeal..place where they get morning sun only ..keep watered well/stay moist...as the foliage appears let it produce a few sets of leaves and then keep the tops pinched out..why you ask?..So to ensure that your clematis will focus on producing a strong root system and not leaves...once the clematis has its roots starting to come out of the bottom of the pot, then you know it is strong enough to be planted directly into your gardens...so in actuality you don't "keep your pots cool" you keep the soil moist..are you planning on container growing your Clematis?...and what zone are you in??...Jeanne