Rogue Valley Roses Will Be Shipping to Canada

13 years ago

I had enquired with Rogue Valley Roses last winter about them shipping roses to Canada and they told me they were not interested at the time. However, a few days ago I recieved an email from them and things have changed.

This opens up a source for previously unobtainable roses in Canada. Notably Paul Barden's Roses, a number of Buck varieties and a few older, rare David Austin varieties as well as dozens of Hybrid Teas, Floribundas and Climbers.

I placed an order yesterday and while they do not currently have the paricular plant I have been trying to find for many years, David Austin's Symphony, they do have a mother plant and tell me to keep watching the website.

But I did manage to get the other rose that has topped my wish list for the past 4 or 5 years. I have 2 plants of Griffith Buck's Quietness ordered. I also ordered several of Paul Barden's beautiful hybrids, including Siren's Keep, October Moon and Hettie.

HHRD (happy, happy, rose dance), for the day before Christmas. Now if only come April, the folk at Customs and the freight handlers at Toronto airport take pitty on me and my roses and clear them without too much delay. That is always the big risk with importing roses, isn't it.

Canada is fortunate to have Pickering Nurseries, Palatine Roses and yes the infamous Hortico, who all preserve and sell thousands of varieties of roses, old and new, ubiquitous or rare. It is however wonderful to have a small American nursery decide to ship roses in the other direction. Particularly since they have many varieties that the Canadian nurseries don't. How could I not help to support them?

Still doing the HHRD. I wish you all a very Joyfull Christmas and a New Year that is coming up roses, joy, happiness and health!

Rick

Here is a link that might be useful: Siren's Keep at HMF

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judith5bmontreal
13 years ago
Uh oh, I am doomed! I do not NEED another place to tempt me, that's for sure!
I've already put in my orders for 2011, but it's on my list for spring 2012. Thanks for the good news, Rideauroselad.
And a very Merry Christmas and happy, healthy New Year to you, and everyone else here on the Rose Forum!

Judith
AnneCecilia z5 MI
13 years ago
That is wonderful news for you, Rick. I love the roses I have purchased from RVR over the years. They're a great nursery with lots of wonderful choices for northern rose growers. You'll love Quietness - I think it is one of the best Buck roses, and Paul Barden's roses are *so* beautiful. Wishing you a Happy New Year ahead - enjoy those wonderful rosey dreams of spring! :-)
Anne
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I am resurecting this post from spring 2011, because I posted on it about my search for Symphony. Talk about rose lust, Symphony has been at the top of my wish list for a decade at least. And now my search is over. Rogue Valley Roses has been shipping to Canada for several years and they list this rose. But they have never stocked it over the past two years, til now. They restocked it a week or two ago. Yesterday I ordered two plants for April delivery. Now as long as the shipping and the border go well, Symphony will appear in my Canadian garden next year. When I first joined the forum about a decade ago, someone used to post the tag line "Happy, happy rose dance" or HHRD when they acquired rare treasures that made them happy. I do believe that this is an occasion to resurect the concept of HHRD, I'm doing the HHRD now and will certainly be doing another when these plants arrive in spring. Symphony will join my collection of lemon coloured roses that whiten at the edges, a colour pattern I adore. The others in the collection are: Kronprincesse Mary Castle, (link in my post below),The Pilgrim and Golden Arctic. Cheers, Rick Here is a link that might be useful: Allux Symphony @ Rogers Roses
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rideauroselad OkanaganBC6a
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13 years ago
Good to hear from you Anne. I often think about you and your garden, though I don't often post and don't often see your very often any more either. I guess I'm an old timer and mostly a lurker these days.

I think the last time I corresponded with you was about a rose called Morgengrus. Sadly it didn't do much for me and it is gone now. Though the bed where I planted it seems to be in decline and it may not have been the rose.

Most of the roses in that bed are nine or ten years old now and I think that they are worn out from the yearly winter kill to near the crowns. I remember hearing somewhere that roses grafted on Multiflora wear out after ten or twelve years and that seems to be what is happening in my front bed. The old plants have massive woody knots at the graft and were not putting out vigorous basal breaks last summer as in the past. I think the soil may also be getting tired because the bed is crowded with roses, delphiniums and perenial fox gloves.

So, I plan to dig it up this spring, put in fresh compost and manure and replant with new roses, including those from RVR. Hopefully, that will fix the problem.

I hope that you are doing well and that your garden is also doing well and bringing you joy. Good to hear from you again, thanks for the reply.

Happy New Year and a happy, healthy gardening season to you.

{{gwi:280769}}

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Cheers,

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