I have Laguna but not from Wayside. I doubt that Wayside would send so good roses ever as Palatine does. Palatine roses is the nursery where my Laguna came from.

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I just went to their website, have always wanted to order from them, and will do so instead of Wayside. Their photo of Moonlight wasnt as striking as Wayside's........wonder if the Wayside photo was enhanced? Laguna looks beautiful. Does it bloom well and rebloom well? Would you recommend it? Thanks......
Judith

Judith.

Check out Wayside Gardens on Dave's Garden for some seriously unbiased reviews on how they are as a vendor. I've never ordered from them but have gone far enough to call and ask questions about a few plants. I was underwhelmed I'm afraid with the lack of customer service even talking on the phone.

I think photo enhancement is an absolute requirement with their catalog.

Kate

Here is a link that might be useful: Reviews of Wayside Gardens at Dave's Garden

The photo on Palatine's website of Moonlight was sort of a muddled yellow, nothing I would have ordered from the photo. The Wayside photo of this rose is gorgeous. I ordered the climber Spectra from Wayside years ago, when I lived elsewhere, and the color was not the spectatular color of the catalog photo. So now I am a little hesitant to order the rose - and I would make my order from Palatine, I have seen photos of what they send and would order from them in a heartbeat - just dont know if the color of Moonlight is going to be something I would like. Which is why I would love hearing from anyone growing it. Laguna is a different matter.......it looks beautiful in all the photos I have seen. Truth be told, I dont need any more roses, tho I just placed another order with Sequoia today [they are going out of business.....I have to order more!] So will probably wait on Moonlight unless someone posts some photos that I can see how it actually grows in a real garden.
Merry Christmas!
Judith

Laguna is a must have because the flowers are large and very full plus they are also very fragrant. It makes nice fat basal canes and so far no disease problems.
Moonlight is disease free but has only a soft fragrance. The colour in my garden was a washed out yellow with washed out pink trim. It went to a new home because the blooms faded in the sun. If you are looking for a climber like the picture on Wayside, then another Kordes climber called Autumn Sunset, would give you a nice yellow edged in soft orange and the buds are pure orange. Plus it is disease free in my garden.

Thanks for the tip, Lynette. I think Laguna goes on the list but will skip Moonlight - and I have a young Autumn Sunset, own root from Chamblees, growing in a pot ready to plant. Actually, that photo of Moonlight in Wayside's catalog looked too good to be true......I dont need washed out colors in our hot Texas sun......Thanks for the advice!
Judith

I ordered Laguna (because of ceterum's beautiful pic)and Moonlight from Palatine in the fall. There were very few pictures of Moonlight available. Below is a link to a gallery with some pictures, also quite a few others Kordes roses that are hard to find pictures of.

Leslie.

Here is a link that might be useful: Moonlight

You can always check out the Kordes website for pictures. Their pictures are very natural, especially those that show the entire plant.

You can also try Golden Gate. This is another climber, introduced in the same year as Moonlight. It is more yellow than Moonlight. It descended from Postillion, a shrub rose that resulted from a crossing of Lichtkonigin Lucia and Westerland.

Rob

Here is a link that might be useful: Kordes website

I grow both those roses. I got them both from Palatine and they have grown like gangbusters in their first year here in my Nova Scotia garden.

Laguna is so pretty, her color reminds me of something jewel like, it bloomed well all summer, grew to about 5 feet tall and wide in one season with no hint of disease. Love this rose.

Moonlight also grew well and bloomed well, again with no hint of disease. The blooms looked exactly like the ones in the link to Moonlight.

I would strongly reccomend both roses. With the amount of snow cover we have here already I suspect that there will be lots of live cane left on these roses come spring.

Valerie

Judith, care to reveal what you ordered from Sequoia. I have two orders in or I would do Sequoia again.

:-)
Carla

Carla, am delighted to spill the beans on my ordering frenzy. I carefully went through the list, wrote down all the ones I thought I would like, researched to see which of these no one else offered......wanted to make sure I got these. I will probably go look again, see what I cant live without. Have ordered from Sequoia for so many years.....it is sad to think they are closing. I just hope Tx. A&M gets up and going and I can go there to see all his blooming roses - its about 2.5 hours from me.
Here is my first order, that just arrived:
3 Lavender Crystal
3 Ripples
Walferdange
Dancing Doll
Rosy Purple
Shipping this week are:
Magenta
Opal Brunner
Purple Buttons
Jacqueline Humery
Now.....wanna hear about the damage I did at Ashdown this morning? I did have one of those discount cards I bought last year and had $150 + on....and before I sound out of control.....they are having a big sale this week! Look what a savings I got! Every 4th one was half price, free shipping!!
Apricot Vigorosa
Mme. Charles
Noella Nabonnand
Queen Mab
Cloth of Gold/Chromatella
Daybreak
Gravin Michel d'Ursel
Grandmom Schmidt
Rivers George IV
Wilhelm
Ley's Perpetual
Mme. Bovary
Sorority Tea
Floral Fairy Tale
Perennial Blue
Chartreuse de Parma
Oh, cant leave out Vintage:
Thomasville Old Gold
Chantilly Lace
Cl. President Herbert Hoover
Etiole de Feu [wanted this one a long time!!]
Heinrich Karsch
Verdun
Grandmaster
So I went a little overboard, its Christmas, Merry Christmas to me! I feel sure there will be more.....
Anyone else doing any ordering? Fess up.....lets have confession.....whats everyone been ordering? Carla, surely you have succombed to something!!
Merry Christmas All!
Judith

I don't know what list I was checking at Ashdown because I didn't find any Delbards but you scored two, lucky girl. I have Chartreuse de Parma and I love it! It has lots of petals, very fragrant and even in full sun has purple tones, didn't bleach out to pink.

For the record, I made the mistake of ordering 3 Kordes Moonlight from Wayside gardens. They arrived and they were very healthy roots. I planted them and they took off but when they bloomed looked nothing like the picture. They were bright bright pink! Not an ounce of yellow except when they first started to bud. Also the description said Moonlight was thornless. Not these - big massive thorns.

I thought at first that maybe they sent me the wrong rose but to send me THREE wrong roses? I don't know. It was certainly not what I ordered or was led to believe I ordered from the picture and description. I made them give me a refund but let me tell you it was a major hassle - it took months. And they would not refund my shipping. The roses ended the season with quite a bit of black spot. While my Heritage and Fairy were just fine. I'll be shovel pruning these roses come spring. I will NEVER order from Wayside again.