Well, Last May I bought my first 2 bare root roses from Walmart. For $3.00 I bought Christopher Marlowe, a David Austin rose, which is about 3 feet tall and bushy right now developing the most fragrant and gorgeous blooms! (J&P sells them) The other bare root rose bush I bought was a Big Red rose bush with the most perfect large red flowers you have ever seen. I paid all of $4.00 for Big Red. I still have both of them now. They are both developing buds. I went to a Nursery and fell in love with a J&P rose bush called "Rainbow Sorbet" last week. I paid $20.00 for that one. Gorgeous rose! Non stop blooms! My son just ordered Pope John Paul II tonight for mom's day, but I won't receive it til the 20th. I had to have that rose bush, they had PJP II also at the nursery, but I didn't want to spend that much on the 2 of them at that time. The nursery is now sold out of all of their J&P roses. I didn't buy a rose from Walmart this year only because I didn't really like the looks of them. Home Depo had Chicago Peace, a yellow climber, for $6.95, but I went with a rose in a pot called Climbing Westerland rose, apricot-orange color, hoping it would grow in faster this summer. The key I found is to soak the bare root plants in a bucket of water for an hour B4 you plant them. I think buying the roses in the pots is still a wise move and if it costs a little more, it's worth it. The new PJPII I will receive later this month will be bareroot, and I am soaking it good. The old fashioned big red rose bush I bought at Walmart is my absolute favorite. Reminds me of the roses I remember when I was a little girl. Happy Gardening!

Thank you kay, for adding some more. I just love that BRAZEN BANDIT.That is really loud and pretty. and i was thrilled to see BARNEY.i Also have barney this year, too, and he has 2 scapes so far.I love BARNEY and cant hardly wait till mine has a bloom, too, but,in the meantime,i would love seeing all of your Barney blooms,and everything else in bloom, too... Jean

Yes, Bill, it's a mystery why some p*lants grow and some don't. I think that it is just so much more complicated then we can see, how plants thrive. Yet it appears to us that p*lants grow so simply. Quite the conundrum. That is very interesting about your lilac. I never had anything growing under it, so maybe I will try that some time. Claire, I am putting Thalia on my list for the fall. I think I am going overboard on daffodils lately. [g] They look so small when you first plant them, but they really fill out into large patches after a few years. I moved a patch into an area with not enough sun in the fall and it had no blooms at all on it this spring. So I think I am running out of enough sun. The Haweras are very cute and not so much dying foliage to put up with either. I did see the plant support and wondered if you had it in place for something that hasn't grown yet. [g] That Dicentra GoldHeart really catches my eye every time I see it. Really stands out. Wow, when that gets full grown! I really like Pieris and I hope I can keep them going in my g*arden. I fear I am too dry for them, but I water a lot, so maybe.

Thank you everyone! Yes I think I'm really going to like Zaide, Judy. Dianne, this hasn't been the greatest year for beautiful blooms for my roses, so some of the pictures I've posted are not a good representation of what that particular variety generally looks like. Here are some examples of PERFUME DELIGHT and PINK PEACE. The first picture is Perfume Delight. The second picture is Pink Peace. While their colors are similar, usually their appearance is quite different, however they both have a wonderful fragrance. Perfume Delight bush has an upright growth and Pink Peace is shorter and wider, at least that's how mine grow. Love them both, but if I could only have one it would be Pink Peace.