Got my email this morning, too....
I was careful to only buy two of the Ducher offerings so there would be room in the shipping box for at least one of these Teas....:-))))

Susan

I was very excited to see the announcement in my e-mail this morning. I thought it was very supportive of Vintage to offer a $2 per rose discount to those of us who have become HMF members. Many of the roses are really lovely. Also, apparently the genuine Mme. Falcot has finally been discovered in India by two distinguished rosarians there after a very long time.

Ingrid

P.S. Also hoping I will not receive another slap on the wrist for my indiscriminate praise of the above two entities.

Very nice selection. Nothing I can grow, alas.

I used to wish Earl of Eldon would become available in the USA. Now it will be. Now if only someone could unearth Coquette des Alpes???

"I am going to grab my Australian tea rose book and see if any of them are in there"

Now THAT is a great idea...

Wow, I really do like this list, very interesting roses!

Yes, it's a lovely list of lovely roses, and I wish Vintage and La Roseraie all the best, but it feels funny placing an order for a rose I won't get for two years. I know it's basically ordering "custom root", but I've never done that before. Who knows what my garden will be looking like in two years. I could probably bite on this offer except for that wrinkle. I know none of you think like me on this subject which is OK with me. Hope it's OK with you. Enjoy the choosing!!

I did find La Roseraie on Google Maps in France. Now that's a trip I'd like to make, riding around the French countryside.

Sherry

Sherry, if you're uncertain about your garden that's a GREAT reason not to order now, after all it is your choice!

They did import two of the roses I really wanted! The problem is I now have 5 roses total... It is too hard to choose, like being in a candy store:-)

Masha

Sherry...how's about this. If I order some that turn out well, you can either have a plant or cutting rights to anything.

Masha, I sympathize. I promised myself I could have three of the imports and only had one more to add, so I finally chose Comtesse de Labarth, Climbing....

Hard choices !!!

Oh, my, Jerome, how sweet you are!! I did put one in my 'shopping cart' this evening, then thought better of it. It was Labatut Tea. Then I found another one. Then I x-ed out. One could definitely lose one's head with that list. And Vintage is smart to include photos on most of them. My problem is that I have no room for a large tea rose - and most of them ARE large. So as audaciously generous as your offer of "cutting rights to anything" is, I am sadly afraid I would not be able to take you up on it, but I will always remember the kindness of your offer, and I thank you for it. Do tell me what you're ordering though so I can dream of what might have been.

I've never seen so many tea-noisettes!

Sherry

AGGGH.... I kinda want:
Anna Jung
Mme. E. Souffrain

I loved that Anna Jung was Marie van Houtte X General Schablikine. Gen was too extreme in color for me, but Anna Jung looks like the perfect combo.

And M. Souffrain looks a little like E. Veyrat H,but it's related to Reve d�Or ...? That sounds so interesting to me!

I really don't have room, though. but I'm tempted to get them to see how I like them. By the time I actually get them, I'd probably have decided a couple in my current garden aren't my cup of tea? (or maybe I'll kill one of them?) lol. Neither of them are in any of my books that I can tell.

I dunno. opinions from the peanut gallery welcome. ;D

I am getting 16 of them. Plus 2 from the first group offered. I'm so excited about new teas that I can hardly stand it. I would've ordered more, cause I LOVE tea noisettes, but I've lost so many TNs in the past that it seems too expensive of a risk.
I do not have the room, not even for 1, but I figure by 2013 there will be some roses that I've grown disenchanted with.
I really wish that they had waited till after Christmas. Money is tight.

Well, despite saying I don't have any more room, I ended up ordering 4. I'm not how well I chose but I've chosen.

Sherry, I applaud your self-control but I've been wanting Isabella Ducrot and was so excited that I had to get it. Once I added one to my shopping cart, I had to finish out the mailing box. I had Labalut Tea in my cart but that made 5 and it got taken out. I hope it wasn't a mistake. If it's anything like Cels Multiflora, I know it'd be great.

I think what made me decide to order despite not knowing what will be going on in 2 years is that I like being a part of bringing rare and unusual roses into the US. I also like being a part of helping out--even in a small way, the efforts of Gregg and Gita at Vintage. Everyone might not appreciate everything they do, but I admire their committment to keeping old and historic roses in commerce.

Oh my....FOUR in a box? That means I still have room for one more.....Whoopeeeeeee.....back to my list....

Susan

Harry Kirk, I think I love you,
but you know it's impossible... you need the sun, my dear and me, well, you know it's cold and dark here. You'd be unhappy and longing for the warm arms of well, another. I know it's heart wrenching, my dear, but it's better this way. Another will love you, and soon.

But I'll love you always, xoxoxoxo

harborrose in wetwetwetwetcolddarkwashington

Well, if being broke and without space makes one have self-control, then I guess I've got it in spades. I, admittedly, am a little reticent to order roses just yet, and will wait to hear the follow-ups on these roses after folks have a little more experience with them. There's a broad range of photos attributed to some of the individual cultivars, and while I'm sure the more delicate colors vary from one climate to another, I'm really anxious to learn more of the performance of these cultivars. (I do enjoy the "rose-porn" from Vintage though...)