Seeing as how it is already mid-February, they're probably best off where they are until you can begin to move them outdoors during the day and slide them back inside if the nights get very cold (20 F. or lower.) Once a rose breaks dormancy, you're not going to get them to stop, only slow them down a little by keeping them cool. The reason I say this rather than encourage you to "bring them upstairs to some good light and start their spring a little early indoors" is that what is "good light" to you and good light to your roses are probably two very different things. Unless you have floor to ceiling glass with a favorable exposure you are going to have to supplement with artificial light, such as a florescent fixture just above the plants for 18 hours a day. And then in that dry indoor warmth there will be spider mites, aphids and other issues to contend with, believe me. Keeping a rose healthy indoors is not an easy task as many here can tell you from experience. Oh, we northern rose fanatics may dare to take on the challenge; yet seldom does it yield the results we hope for, but instead a lot more work than we bargained for!

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Dealing in any other way than credit card, paypal and the like is prohibitively expensive unless we are talking about very large orders. To give an example, my bank is asking for a euro 50 fee for the transfer of amounts up to 500 euros or so...Three roses which is a reasonable amount will thus cost at the minimum 45+15+50 euros... I have had experience exchanging emails in english with Le Roseraie du Desert and they have been very helpful and easy to talk to (they are Americans if I understand correctly). They accept paypal I gather. I was about to order from them when I needed to be hospitalized last year. Last time I checked Bierkreek the only payment method available was bank transfer or cash which prohibited me from dealing with them. I don't know if this has changed but I doubt it. Additionally you had to email them your request, and they would come back with availability and the shipping costs quote. Not very efficient I think. I've had very bad experience with a couple of german nurseries which never responded to my emails. For one of them I left a bad review in HMF and discovered I was not the only one with such a bad experience. What I like to do is go online to an english language site, put a few roses in my shopping basket, check out, pay with my credit card both the rose price and the shipping cost, receive a confirmation email and be done with it. Anything more complicated than this is a hassle. Contact with the nursery should only be needed if one needs to clarify something or resolve a problem, not for a business as usual order. If contact is needed I expect this to be conducted promptly by email and in english, not because I happen to speak the language but because it is the de facto lingua franca for international commerce. I don't expect to have to use a translator nor jump through the machine translation hoops. So if anybody has any recommendations for such nurseries not in the UK with a good selection of OGR's and the like and which will ship across the EU, they are welcome. PS. Bierkreek seem to be preparing a proper e-commerce site. When they have it ready I will be pleased to try it. PS2. The Lens nursery was mentioned. Below the link to their terms and conditions. Please note, on top of the payment method problem and uknown (and possibly very steep shipping costs judging from their costs for shipping to nearby places like the UK and Germany), their disclaimers about shipping and state of plants on arrival. This is what I call bad business practices and I would never buy from them. Lens nursery (Belgium) terms & conditions

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