Roses Unlimited 2015 Sale
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Comments (7)I agree, Lana, Roses Unlimited send the best own roots! And, I tried restraint during the sale. I DO NOT need any more roses, and I already got very nice ones from them this Spring. Plus, I recently succumbed to EuroDesert's Sale, plus Nor'Easts sale, plus bought some from Rogue Valley. My resolve lasted until Monday! So, next week, I will be receiving: OCCHI DI FATA, SUNI and ROYAL WEDDING. Oh, and mgleason, you are going to love PAW MAW! I got it in Spring and it is growing very well and blooming beautifully. Plus, I have all three of the ones you are getting this week, but may have accidenly killed HENRI MATISSE. It was planted too close to the sprawling GRIMALDI, so I tried to move it - way too late in the season. I may have to order another one! NOOOOOOOO more roses! Stop me before I order again!!!...See MoreRoses Unlimited Summer Sale thru 6/14/17
Comments (71)Lily I made a mistake about the thistles. I have two kinds, Canada Thistle and Purple thistle. The latter is the kind that grows 10 feet tall, has really thick stalks like pokeweed and puts out those big spikey purple "flowers." Canada is the lower spreading kind that over takes lawns. Both are very invasive though. Thanks Virginia, I hadn't heard of that one but will check it out. I've tried various weed gadgets and even torches, but thistle have obnoxiously deep roots and if you don't get it all it's a waste of time.... like pokeweed and docks. At my other place, which was brown clay, it was a little easier to dig weeds, but here I'm red clay on rock. Being in the foothills of the mountains gives me the rocky layers with a helping of that famous bright orange Carolina red clay on top. Hard as cement when dry, sticky as glue when wet. When the excavation team was here for some work, I was surprised at the boulders and rocks they unearthed. Very pretty though and the smaller ones, wagon to barrel sized, are in front of the house as my bed edges. Big bed edges...lol! The larger ones were used to shore up an old bridge on the lower part of the property. I have to cross a year around creek to get up my driveway and had a new bridge installed along with re-contouring the drive, but saved the old bridge for backup. I digress... the Canada thistle is mostly a nuisance for the moment. Hundreds in what would be the "yard" area and I mow them for now. The purple thistles are the ones I'm trying to keep from going to seed. They are dotted all over my acres, like you would see in an unkempt pasture. All those neat idealistic pictures of yellow finches sitting atop a huge purple thistle flower are pretty to look at, until you see the wickedness of the rest of the plant. I haven't mentioned my clay rock base much because I guess I don't really think about it. I've already learned how to make my own good soil with composting layers and have been doing my gardens that way for years. The concept of digging into typical ground and just plopping a plant in is a foreign concept to me. A pile of horse, goat, chicken, or alpaca manure is pure brown gold to me. Hmm... I'm not sure what that says about me.... Fancy new shoes and a designer handbag or a pile of compost?? Um, compost please!...See More2019 Roses Unlimited Sale (June 3 - 19)
Comments (96)Another fun comparison: Left: RU, Distant Thunder, Own Root, I’ve had it about 1 month. This plant had the thinnest stems of the three, also had smaller root ball than the K&M. Very healthy, put out a lot of new growth Middle: Wayside, Molineaux, Bare Root, Dr Huey, also had it about a month. By far the thickest stems, but of course being bare root had to grow new feeder roots. Good progress, there’s even a bud. Right: K&M, Buxom Beauty ,Fortuniana, just arrived today. Thicker stems than the RU rose, also had a very dense rootball. Was trimmed short significantly to fit in packing box so most of the mature foliage is gone, but lots of new growth remains, even 2 buds. I’m very happy with all three providers, and thankful that I’m able to get hard-to-find varities in mid summer in great health!...See MoreRoses Unlimited summer sale 6/10 to 6/23 at $14 per gallon
Comments (41)Straw - you seem to be able to overwinter more roses than I can in my zone 5 with your better snow cover, but in my experience Lemon Spice is not remotely hardy and I can't pull it through in my most protected spot. I had one Firefighter that I kept for several years but I have had trouble overwintering a replacement. Still I'd rate that one as much more robust than Lemon Spice in my yard. For the others, GFT is rock solid hardy and a good bloomer, Stephen's Big Purple has survived in my protected area, America didn't survive but it was a body bag, Danae won't survive my winters, and Moonlight Romantica is on its third try to survive my winters. Just my experience with these - you know that I'm no help on scent as I can't smell most roses. Cynthia...See Moreview1ny NY 6-7
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7 years agoSummersrhythm - I presume you've been using helpmefind.com roses to do your searches? It sure beats googling the roses from around the net, and there's usually consistent information about the rose habits and where else it is being grown. It is a bit frustrating to have to look up roses from their site, but Pat has SO many roses that it would be hard to show links for all of them. I go to their site so often that I now keep a running list of roses they sell that would be interesting for when this kind of opportunity comes up. NOT that I'm buying anything from the current sale, even though there are 6 or 8 I particularly want. I've planted my last rose for the season and am resolved to wait for next year.
Jeremy, and other who'd like to take advantage of this sale - I heartily recommend the gallons from Roses Unlimited as very healthy plants and terrific roses to get established and grow in our relatively colder zones. From the sale list, here are photos of some I particularly like, to tempt all of you!
I quite like the Buck bush Dorcas, but I couldn't find any photos of my old plant and it's one that died last year from gardener error (ahem). Among climbers, Antique 89 has really come into its own in the last few years. It isn't as distinctly picotee, with the pink spreading way beyond the edges, but it's a nice mannerly climber with a good first bloom and scattered repeat for the rest of the season after that. (Yes there is a small metal trellis, you just can't see it in the photo, and it's leaning way away from the shed).
Jeanne LaJoie is a killer climber that's a very tall robust rose even though it's a "mini" - meaning size of flowers, not size of the bush itself. It absolutely eats a shepherd's hook along with about 3 clematis but it blooms thickly and off and on all summer. The pink at the top is Jeanne LaJoie, the vines are the clematis, and Harry Hastings and some teas are at the bottom.
Among floribundas, I like Cinco de Mayo a lot. You have to like changeable colors on a rose though - here she is in her "russet" colors as she is now in spring. In the hot summer, she takes on more of an orange cast. She's a very reliable bloomer, as well as hardy and disease resistant for me, and the ruffled blooms are fun.
Hannah Gordon is tough as nails and has a very nice picotee edge of pink. She is misnamed as "Nicole" in stores, but if it's Hannah Gordon she's about 5-6' tall and a narrow bush. Nice clusters of blooms - this one shows the open form, but she has nicely spiraled buds.
I'm a sucker for the striped roses so I really love Henri Matisse. He doesn't bloom nearly as often or as vigorously as the neighboring Edgar Degas (not available now in the US), but the stripes are striking and well worth it. Mannerly at 4' or so in height. Sorry this photo is a little fuzzy.
Hot Cocoa is one I love enough to have two of them, and it's another that changes a lot with the weather. It's a lovely russet color most of the year, but in this photo you can see some of the orange tones in the center that he'll get when it gets hot. He's a reliable rebloomer for me and always seems to have at least a bloom or two once he gets started.
I'll continue in another posting for photo limitsCynthia
nippstress - zone 5 Nebraska
7 years agoHi folks
OK, more enabling from the Roses Unlimited list. I like the "hot colored" floribundas that change with heat/age, so another one like Cinco de Mayo is Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras doesn't really get the russet tones for me, but it goes through some nice color changes, some of which are a hauntingly beautiful yellow underlying orange (and I don't usually like orange). Here's a photo that captures two of its different personalities as it fades:
Pretty Lady is a totally easy care beginners type rose that can handle the cold, disease, and other trials. I have a love-hate relationship with her - when the blooms are in bud or first open, they're lovely, but I don't like their appearance fully opened with the prominent stamens. It has gotten more prolific over the years I've had it though, and the first open blooms (you can see a few) have this lovely apricot shading. She's tall - 5-6' and pretty upright.
Cherry Parfait is on a lot of people's top favorite lists, and probably mine too. It puts out blooms all summer, starting with the traditional spiraled blooms and opening out to a lovely picotee edge flower. This photo isn't from my yard, but a public garden where it gets very little regular care, so you can tell it is tough and disease resistant here. Most of the roses in this particular garden looked totally pathetic, and this was mid-summer.BTW, Coretta Scott King, Paw Maw and Dick Clark are also excellent roses in this general color scheme, I just didn't have photos handy of them.
Lagerfeld is a very nice and surprisingly hardy lavender, but again I can't find a photo. Not quite as prolific and hardy as Poseidon, but a very nice rose and tough lavenders are hard to find. Sunshine Daydream is a new one in my yard this year, but already putting out knock your socks off yellow blooms that don't seem to fade a bit. It's a Kordes rose, so I presume it'll stay healthy and hardy.Peggy Rockefeller is one of my darker burgundy roses, even though this photo shows her as more red. She isn't a prolific bloomer, as is true of a lot of the red HTs, but I love the blackish tones she can get when the weather is right, and she survives the zone 4 side of my house. The Lim bush Sweet Fragrance is in the background.
I can't recommend any more frequent bloomer that's totally excellent for a beginner than Bonica. Here's just a portion of the Bonica that I ended up planting in the neighbor's yard peeking through my fence. She has more blooms on the fence than a total of three other climbers, and blooms almost as thickly as this all season long. And this is in part shade, with zero care other than spring pruning and the occasional deadheading when I pop over. Totally rewarding and as easy care as roses get.
Almost all of the shrub roses listed are very rewarding for beginners. Kordes roses are real survivors, and Caramel Fairy Tale is a vigorous and enthusiastic bloomers. It does take a rest periodically and still needs propping up with supports, since it's pruned to the ground yet blooms on 6' of new cane every year. Still, the colors are marvelous and it's very healthy.
I love the Delbard roses that Roses Unlimited carries and Dame des Chenonceau is a real survivor as well. It is pink in this particular photo but blooms mostly blush for me, totally prolific. Even if helpmefind says it's short, don't believe them. Even with summer pruning, this one wants to be 5' for me and pump out lots of fluffy blooms. I can keep it to 4' or so with judicious pruning, and it does seem to help it branch out. Totally disease free and hardy for me. It might be a nice alternative to David Austins to try if they're too blackspot ridden for you. A very similar bloom, but not so full, would be Elegant Fairy Tale. I don't have a photo, but it's a prolific and healthy bloomer in a pale blush-apricot color with full petaled blooms.
Westerland is another great rose in the orange-yellow colors, listed with the Shrubs but I grow it as a short climber. Peach Drift and Sweet Drift are good beginners roses that stay low, but you can often find these at local garden centers - I'd recommend using Roses Unlimited for the fun roses. I grow another 20 or more of the ones listed for the sale and have planted at least that many more on the list this year if I can help enable folks for a purchase. Pat Henry is wonderful to do business with at Roses Unlimited and you'll be glad you took advantage of the sale!Cynthia
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoI ordered Monday morning around 11am, received the plants just 30 minutes ago. The plants look great and I'm pleased. All three have small buds coming along. I did have to add some soil to each pot, but that is in no way a complaint.
From left to right: World War II Memorial, Henry Matisse, and Snowfire.
Snowfire, armed with all those prickles.
chris_in_wv (z6/7)
7 years agoHenri Matisse, which looks like it might also be very thorny.
And, lastly, World War II Memorial, the biggest of the bunch.
nippstress - zone 5 Nebraska
7 years agocountrygirlsc, Upstate SC
7 years agoI picked up my roses this morning. they look great. Almost all of them have buds.
Francois Rabelais and Margo Koster.
Guy Savoy and All American Magic.
Devoniensis CL and Purple Splash
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