I presume you live in a warm climate boncrow, to be planting such lovely Tea roses. Here, next Spring, I shall just get one of the new Austin releases most probably, along with 'Blythe Spirit', which I already have but will not plant out until then. Also I shall be receiving a found rose called 'Surpassing Beauty', an HP, but I don't know how that will do for me. It's been around for a while now and I'm late to the party so to speak..

No doubt there will be one or two others I haven't yet thought of....

Let's see what others have to say...

Boncrow, wonderful choices! I do so love tea roses. Sigh. Which Kordes did you order?

Marlorena, I'm unfamiliar with the found HP Surpassing Beauty. I'm planning to pop over to HMF to check it out. HPs grow fairly well here, and found roses always intrigue me.

I ordered a couple of roses from Palatine, Poseidon/Novalis and another Ebb Tide. I ordered Munstead Wood from DA. I finally purchased a Celeste/Celestial from RVR for my current garden. I am contemplating where to place Song of the Stars and Little Grey Pearl if I click the purchase button at RVR. I've been holding them in my shopping cart for days, and I refresh it regularly to remind me to make a decision. I know I am inviting a nightmare of galloping Gallicas into my tiny garden, but I can't help myself. I'm waitlisted for Capitaine John Ingram. I LOVE that rose!

Carol

Marlorena, yes I live in East Texas where it is very hot and being 80 miles from the Gulf of Mexico my climate can also be very humid but my tea roses do very well with both heat and humidity. I looked up Surpassing Beauty and it is gorgeous! I love the dark burgundy color, does it have a fragrance?

Carol I haven't ordered my Kordes roses because I will be making a trip to Chamblees in March. But the Kordes I plan on getting are Beverly, Savannah, Polar Express and Pink Enchantment and South Africa. I'm sure that a few more could make it home with me too lol. I keep thinking about adding Poseidon too but not sure yet. And I I get anymore DA roses Munstead woods and Princess Alexander of Kent would be my choices.

So far I have only three:

Prairie Sunrise- a Buck rose that I lost to RRV last year

Prairie Breeze- another Buck rose

Thomasville Old Gold- a tea that I had years ago and gave away.

There are others that I want but don't have a place for them- Lady Ann Kidwell, Baby Alberic, Tipsy Imperial Concubine and a whole lot of hybrid musks, tea noisettes and minis. When the word "sale" comes into it, I may end up with a few more.

I'm getting Tour de Malakoff this fall and in Spring I have ordered from Burlington MAC,Kew Rambler, Apple Blossom, and SGMC.

From LongagoRoses As long as she has them all I will be getting Eye's for you, Nath High Hills, Rotes Meer, Dawn Crest...maybe afew more, but they are if's..like if they are rooted, lol

That's all I'm ordering, I'm trying so hard to stop..I told my DH that I wasn't ordering anything...well maybe he won't notice, lol. Seriously I am slowed way down..Got to because I'm running out of room :) My Garden is finally starting to mature, and I think this spring I will get a real good show from everyone. Although I do have to move some roses, where the trees have grew more, and the roses are in too much shade now.

Wonderful, fun choices everyone! I'm actually looking forward to not buying, and instead just tending and enjoying this spring.

Fall is the best time to plant here, and I have just bought and planted what feels like a bazillion new roses, citrus, herbs and other plants. In December/January I do have a few more coming in... but none are old garden roses.

The 'new' old garden roses in my garden now that I'm really excited to see bloom this spring are Homere, Mlle. Franziska Kruger, Jesse Hildreth, Old Town Novato, Smith's Parish, Henri Martin, Souv. du Docteur Jamain and Crested Sweetheart.

I'm going to live vicariously through all of your garden photos for additional 'new rose excitement' this spring! I'm done buying for a while. :)

I plant in the fall because winters are becoming ever milder and spring lately has had some punishing hot spells. The roses I've ordered are all in the ground, and just yesterday I planted my second Mlle. de Sombreuil (it's been a good rose for me) and Triomphe de Luxembourg, and today William R. Smith is being moved over to Tea Rose Row from its rather cramped spot in the front triangle, and International Herald Tribune is being planted there instead, not far from my new Plum Perfect.

boncrow, I don't want to deter you from any of your choices that you have your heart set on, but will just say that if I had to do it over again I would not plant Mme. Antoine Mari. I don't find the appearance of the blooms very compelling (maybe just not intricate and full-petaled enough for my taste) but its real down side is the fact that the petals are so delicate that the flowers don't last even a day even though, at this time of the year, they are shaded during the hottest part of the day. It may be that the low humidity is not to its liking. Many people love this rose so climate may be the problem with mine. It does seem to be a very willing bloomer.

I cleared out a few large derelict beds, so I'm spending too much time thinking about what to get. After everything doing well last year, I feel more confident as a newbie to expand things and have one entire are planted. Problem is I keep finding new ones to research. I need quite a few climbers for a North wall. I will definitely be adding at least one additional Viking Queen. I'm loving that rose!

One thing I have decided is to clear out the liriope from a a western exposure bed that now gets full afternoon sun. It seems like such a waste of sunlight and as its separate visually from the back beds I can plant some colours that I love, but clash with everything else. Yay! For that bed I definitely want Golden Buddha and possibly Cream Veranda and maybe Molineaux if they can take PM sun only. It can also accommodate a climber so I'm deciding between a complementary colour or contrasting one. More research is needed there.

Keep it coming. I learn so much from everyone's choices.

I can't believe this awesome thread died! Come on guy's I know we are all looking forward to spring, so let's get some more people chiming in :)

On another note I bought me a grow light to see if I can do better with rose seeds :)

I am still super ready for spring and I can't wait to start pruning and getting beds ready with bags of manure and Rose tone. My dad put in a new building/shed next to our property lines and told me I could plant roses on the side facing my house which is a prime sunny location, so excited about choosing what roses I want to put there, right now I'm leaning towards putting three teas there but then I also keep thinking about moving roses that I already have that are in a more shady areas of my yard and aren't looking very great and see how they do with more sun, most all are DA's. Decisions...decisions....

I am starting almost new - in new house - and excited to be researching new roses to plant. So far, I am planting tropicana, beverly, teasing georgia and lady of shallot. I don't know what to expect!

Alana, I'd be so grateful to see photos of your Tour de Malakoff when it blooms. What a beauty! Carol

randman, expect Teasing Georgia to get tall. I grow mine on a short (in length not height) pergola, where she persistently wants to grow taller than the pergola. I have to prune her back quite a bit every winter.

Here is just one side of her on the pergola.

Daisy

Randman it must be super exciting to start over, especially if you already kinda know what you love most, so your at a better place than when you first started planting roses. Although even our duds teach us lessons!

Carol I sure will! I'm going to try and take better pictures this Spring, since last Spring I was so lax.

Beautiful picture Daisy!

Sheila it's sounds like you will be busy. I hope you have time for it all! Two Weddings and a Birthday! How Wonderful!

The weather has been so wack lately, my tulips and Daffs are coming up. I'm going to go ahead and start pruning dead wood and weed. Do all I can do right now. Also will be cleaning the chickens and rabbit pens and putting out straw and manure. I've been debating exactly when to start the rose seeds, I'm thinking February..

Ugh, not remotely ready for spring. Today, I did order the first of a series of bulk bags of composted manure for mulching though.

Are you kidding? I'm still debating if it's too late to prep my roses for Winter! Maybe I'll just combine the two. : )

Boncrow, I am looking forward to anything remotely spring-like...although I have to admit that a snow fix has been somewhat fun. I hope my potted perennials that never made it into safe ground have survived the blizzard! Carol

I have two daughters in Portland and school and work are shut down! Sounds more like Minnesota or Alaska. Good luck Carol with all this. Don't break a leg. My ARE roses are in a Fed Ex truck that better make it here soon. It drove North from California past me to Troutdale then has to come South again to get here. I should have had Drone delivery. I don't like indirect delivery routes.

Sheila, I hope your daughters have snow shovels and Subarus! I think we're finally beginning to thaw this eve. Hopefully, the freezing rain won't show up. All fingers crossed for the safe passage of your roses! Who knew they'd have to travel around Antarctica to reach you?! Troutdale is no place for a delicate tea rose this winter! Carol

I cant think of spring yet but I do dream of it often..its January ... honestly it doesn't feel like spring here until April.3 more months to go ARGH

Dang, Sheila, you've accomplished all the stuff that I did in January of last year. This year, I just want to see dirt again (and not that white stuff). I was so jealous reading about the manure you've put around your roses. Each day I'm getting farther behind and more out of shape from sitting too much. I also want to see how much damage the awful cold we had has done to everything. At least our mountain snow pack is beyond 100% and nobody is talking about the drought. I'm so happy about that.

Carol, I hope no one was stabbed by those vicious looking icicles. Yikes!

Daisy, your Teasing Georgia is unbelievable. I am looking forward to other photos from you. I hope problems from your leg are in the past.

Diane