Best Online Nursery For Roses

7 years ago

Just moved and am going to plant a lot of roses in my new location. I used to order from Pickering and S&W, but neither one is in business anymore. Any suggestions as to the best nursery to order bare root roses from.

Thanks in advance

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barbarag_happy

7 years ago

I order dozens of roses every year.

The best bare roots I've ever seen have all come from Palatine Nursery, which is in Canada. The vigor of the multiflora rootstock will get your new roses off to a roaring start. I understand why you prefer bare roots.

The biggest own root roses I've ordered have all come from Antique Rose Emporium. They have expanded their shrub rose selections in recent years. I order roses for two public gardens-- one at an arboretum and a huge organic garden at the zoo-- and we are able to plant the roses from ARE directly into the display beds.

For a good selection of Austins, shrubs, and a huge variety of hybrid teas you may want to try Roses Unlimited. Their roses are greenhouse grown and bigger than the bands you get from many other own-root vendors. Still, I find I need to I pot them up to a 2 gallon and grow them on before setting them out. That's what the owner recommends.

My favorite fragrant shrub rose is Roserie de l'Hay, a huge hybrid rugosa. Have fun choosing and planting!

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7 years ago
Hello,... obviously I cannot answer your question directly, but if you would like to have a look at this thread, which is currently on the Antique Rose Forum, then several members go into quite a bit of detail about a whole load of rose suppliers. This might help you out, I hope so..

thread here
Mister Moses, Pittsburgh, W. PA., zone 5
7 years ago
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Mike,

I have had very good success with the following online companies, randomly listed in no order of preference:

Burlington Roses

Chamblee's Roses

Heirloom Roses

High Country Roses

Wayside Gardens

White Flower Farm

Here's another option you may consider. AMAZON has a few rose sources. Two that I have patronized are Hirt's and Stargazer Perennials. They both ship small liners at very reasonable prices. Don't look for an exhaustive selection, but if they have what you want, so what. The shipping charge is very reasonable. I use Amazon for single purchases generally, and have yet to pay more than $20.00, shipping included for a rose. Quality has been excellent, though small, and expertly packaged.

When given a choice, I select the smallest plant available, usually a liner. They adjust quicker. In three years a liner size rose is equal to or even larger than a 2 gallon of the same variety planted next to it at the same time.

Hirt's only charges $1.00 more for shipping for each additional rose on an order.

I got some Julia Childs last spring from Hirt's that were A #1, and grew like weeds in the ground.
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Based on what I have seen here the blue cedar will have a stake due to a deformed rootstock being used, and the tops of the box are plenty big enough for their roots to be matted - the magnolia will not be the only one that needs work at planting. With deciduous magnolias it appears you want to be subjecting them to root damage only when they are in leaf. Otherwise they may just sit there and rot. When a potted plant has the correct proportion between top and roots the top looks undersized to many consumers. This and growers not keeping up with potting on anyway results in under-potted stock being the general situation in the retail setting. Loosening up the outside of a matted root system is not too hard to deal with; corkscrew roots, hard woody root turnips and other severe deformities in the center of the root mass, right below the crown - resulting from stock being left in bands, liners or 4" pots way too long at production facilities - is a different story, and just the thing to spoil a woody specimen after it has grown for many years and made a nice big top. Tall, fast growers like cypresses or pines may even break loose and go over, when part of the root system is caught up in going around and around - instead of all of the main roots immediately leaving the vicinity of the trunk and radiating outward to their full lengths and forming a good anchorage. This post was edited by bboy on Tue, Dec 31, 13 at 16:38
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Ken (N.E.GA.mts) 7a/b
7 years ago
It depends on where you live. If you now live in a cold area, you need to do a lot of own root roses. Moses has a good list going. If you live in a fairly warm area (zone 6b or warmer), roses on Dr Huey and and Fortuniana root stock will work quite well for you.

Edmund's Roses (Dr Huey)

Regan Roses (Dr Huey)

K&M Roses (Fortuniana)

Cool Roses (Fortuniana)

Roses Unlimited (own root)

95% of my garden is made up from these Nursery's withe other 5% coming from Heirloom, Chamblee's and Burlington.
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sabalmatt_tejas
7 years ago
I've ordered from Burlington, Rogue Valley, Rose Petals, Chamblee's and Antique Rose Emporium- all with excellent results. Burlington's selection & customer service is top notch.
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Cori Ann - H0uzz violated my privacy
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Hi Mike! Congrats on your new garden-to-be! I was going to link to the post I recently put up in the antique rose forum... but Marlorena already did! :)

If you just want bare root... the two I have recent experience with are Palatine and Regans. But what everyone else said is good advice too! Check out that post Marlorena linked to also. It could be very helpful! Happy planting!
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AquaEyes 7a NJ
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Rather than "best nursery", it's really "best fit for what you want". Are you looking for a specific genre or type, such as Hybrid Teas? Or are you interested in landscape shrubs? Or do you like antiques? Do you have a preference for own-root or on rootstock? Where are you gardening, with respect to climate and soil and rainfall? When you've figured out what you want, then you can find nurseries which offer that, and compare them. So, for example, if you're looking for bare-root HTs and Floribundas on rootstock, I can't really offer any suggestions, since that's the opposite of my garden, so I have no experience with buying those types of roses. But get back at me if you're looking for own-root oldies and a dash of moderns, because I've bought a lot of those from several places.

:-)

~Christopher
diane_nj 6b/7a
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
We would want to know where you live. For me, Palatine is the best, roses on R. multiflora rootstock. Also, Wisconsin Roses, but I don't recommend them for new rose growers because they are newly budded bareroots.
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7 years ago
Thanks all. I'm in the near north suburbs of Chicago near Lake Michigan, so 5b-6a zone. I'm mostly interested in Austin or other fragrant shrub roses and Hybrid Teas.
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