Thanks SoFl :-)

Enabler! LOL!!!

SoFl you are making me anxious to see your garden!!!! /i got Pink Peace and Intrigue last year at Costco. I love both of them, especially Pink Peace. Huge Flowers. I got JFK the year before, at Sams. He is in decline. I have this mat that has been attacking the plants. I have decided to dig up the ones where the mats have covered the roots. Don't know if they will make it or not.

Thanks for sharing the information.

I got pink peace there last year and it did great! Hoping to pick up Don Juan and Golden showers if they have that one.

Since I saw Kublakan's photo, I realized Kmart has these at same price too.

Gibson, they actually did have climbing golden showers and don juan, but you'd better hurry as I noticed they were already getting all bought up.

I know Kubla, I am so bad! LOL Hope they do well for you :)

I won't see them in my neck of the woods until April. I watch the flyers and I go there the second they start selling them. They don't sell out that quickly. Nobody grows flowers where I live!

I remember a few years ago the Aldi near my house had put a few on clearance because they had not sold. The following year only one was on clearance and I ended up buying it (it was Mr. Lincoln). Last year they sold out rather quickly as I went back about 2 days later to get one more and they were all gone. This year they ended up bringing two boxes and I visited 2 different Aldi's. The one by my house had already been ransacked a bit and the lady at the front said there were people waiting for it to open to buy the roses (mind you, i got there about half an hour after it opened). The second one I stopped by, which was on my way to work, had about half of them already sold out and I met a Jamacan gentleman who had (like me) gone there just for the roses. He had about 5 in his cart and very sweetly offered to give me his Peace rose when I mentioned I'd like one (they ended up having another one).

I think the word is out on Aldi roses in my neighborhood!

Reporting in from Dallas , Texas.. I just came from Aldi. Only ten roses left. I picked up a kinda ragged Love. But, hey, for $5.49, I'll try it.

I have never been impressed with Love (and it's one of the handful of survivor roses that has survived my intermittent bouts of lethargy), but after seeing your rose here I might have to give it another chance.

I have two. One on Fortuniana and one on Dr. H. My fortuniana one is always in bloom and is one of my best performers, but it does get a little black spot. Its much tougher than most though, right up there with Dick Clark. However, her blooms tend to be somewhat bull-nosed in intense heat and are not well formed. This happened to be one of the good ones because of the cooler weather we are having.