Yeah, we don't get these until Jan/Feb and as was said, they are not in the best of shape by then. And we usually don't get as good of a selection. Still, I will be on the lookout for any good ones. I was able to rescue a JFK for $2 that has survived and is going strong. But others have succumbed to canker.

Yeah, we don't get these until Jan/Feb and as was said, they are not in the best of shape by then. And we usually don't get as good of a selection. Still, I will be on the lookout for any good ones. I was able to rescue a JFK for $2 that has survived and is going strong. But others have succumbed to canker.

Yeah, we don't get these until Jan/Feb and as was said, they are not in the best of shape by then. And we usually don't get as good of a selection. Still, I will be on the lookout for any good ones. I was able to rescue a JFK for $2 that has survived and is going strong. But others have succumbed to canker.

We will have bodybag bare roots in May around Mother's Day. A long wait......if I go down South in March, I shall find some and carry them back. :-)

Went to our Lowes last week. Nothing exciting. I was hoping for something old that I might've missed or some of the newer peat-potted roses from Certified Roses. But... nope. Just the same old roses I already have. They have tons of the same varieties in different grades and different price points. I think it was maybe a dozen or so varieties. Bummer. Oh well, saves me some money. LOL Still waiting to see what HD gets in. Hoping for something new from Coiner. Doubt it tho... Haven't made it to OSH yet. But I imagine they'll just have the Weeks roses and DAs too. Probably nothing I need.

Our HD has their bagged roses in. I picked up Electron, Mr. Lincoln, Double Delight and Compte de Chambord. Mr Lincoln on the far left has a crazy thick cane. They all have little leaf buds and are waking up but none have leafed out. I am going to soak and pot them up today.

Wow, those body bags looks really nice and the canes looks very healthy. It has been decades that I have ever bought one. Usually the body bags being sold here looks "dead". No pun intended.

I got my The Poet's Wife from OSH, this is last year introduction. If you live closer to peninsula, Wegman's Nursery in Redwood City has fresh bareroot with long roots, pull it your own $18.99. All weeks and stars roses available. I bought some body bags from Lowe's of south and north CA. Last month in south CA Home Depot's have coiner body bags are already arrived. Today I found in Nor CA Home Depot, coiner body bags are much fresher and only dip in horticultural oil, not waxed. But most of them are rare find like Ambassador, Sonia, etc and some are bred by Jim Coiner (creater of Pink Promise)

3 are planted deep next to the pool enclosed where I hope they have good airflow and Mr Lincoln is in a pot. They are all leafing out nicely and Mr Lincoln has a 4th cane coming up that was hidden in the sawdust.

I scored today at Home Depot: JC's Rose (x4.. I assume JC stands for James Coiner, the hybridizer), Intrigue, Floradora, & Elizabeth Taylor (from Friedmans Hardware). Coiners' Cheapo bareroots arrived at Friedmann's Petaluma, but it was all just 100 bags of Queen Elizabeth -- I loathe that rose. Gonna check Santa Rosa FH on Wednesday, maybe they got the rest non-QE's.

I'm happy about finding Floradora, been searching for that one.

Rose enthusiasts are being busy even in raining days

No rest for the wicked....

You should buy several JC's Roses Matthew, their purple colors would make a nice contrast next to all your yellows and oranges.

I probably should've gotten FLORADORA. Not sure I really like it tho. Crap I remember what the other rose was at HD that I was thinking I already had. I'm pretty sure it was REDGOLD. I do not have it. Had a tree rose of it many yrs ago and gave it away when we moved to our house. Maybe I should go back and get one.... Aaah.. won't be going back down the hill again til after all this rain tho. Maybe this weekend. I think it's supposed to let up by Thurs...

I can't wait to see JC in real life!

Boscobel @ OSH!

Can't find JC in central part of the bay, I went about 10 HD now, tomorrow going to south. Mostly summer sunshine, big guy, party hardy, duet, Hilstrom, Maggie berry, super gold, floradora so far and some common variety like dick Clark, queen Elizabeth, etc

Beth there is redgold 24" tree in most HD

I saw about 15 JC's rose at San Rafael HD. Santa Rosa HD has about 6 JC's left, and about 10 Redgold bushes & 1 RedGold standard.

I would love the idea of finding all kinds of healthy body bag roses. They are less expensive and it would be great to just get things at a local nursery instead the hassle of ordering them. But where I'm at, in Indianapolis, the local nurseries put a low priority on roses and don't stock very many. Also, because winter can be a challenge here, I like to plant own root roses. I'm jealous of people in warmer zones.

Online bareroot ordering is definitely hassle as they shipped poor quality roots or even dead one. I have huge disappointment with J&P (send me dead bareroots) and DA-US (unbelievable poor grade bareroot but slowly growing) We have healthy body bags at big box stores, specialty nurseries also sell fresh roots direct from growers, my best choice is potted roses discounted after Labor Day for same price as bareroot.

I hear you James! If you have a Menards close to you, they do get huge boxes of bare roots in March/ April. I have found some keepers, and they are like $5. You can always do cuttings or hope they go own root :)

So these body bags with waxed canes do well? I always thought waxed canes were a no-no so was afraid to try.

Of course in NY we won't see roses till April so I guess the wholesalers wax the canes so that they won't dry out during the months' wait to be shipped.

Any advice? Does the wax come off?

You can gently scrape the wax off with our finger nails. Or it will melt off when it gets sunny. I've had mixed results with waxed roses and all body bags. But then, I've bought potted roses for $35 that didn't make it so.....

Thanks Buford. Maybe I'll try one or two this spring. I've seen posts on this forum about cheap roses at Aldo but never bothered to check it out because I was sure they wouldn't survive the trip home.

I also have four new roses coming from ARE at the end of April so I have to figure out how much room I have after I see how many survived the winter. Last year I only lost 2. The year before 17 didn't make it:(

I try not to buy the ones with heavy wax. It's ok for you guys in cooler zones, but here in CA, at least Northern CA, we get triple digit summers and that melts the wax and burns the canes. If I get any with the heavier wax, I usually try to cut off the waxed canes. That will force the plant to grow new canes.

We usually get them here in February. I may buy one or two. I now put them in pots first and see how they do before planting them (and then having to dig them up when the die from canker). Two years ago I rescued a half dead JFK for $2 and was able to get it to survive. It bloomed very well last year.

Well, just came back from the local Grocery Outlet and had just run in to grab a handful of stuff. Inside near the registers was a bunch of boxes stacked up with Certified Roses' bagged bareroots at $5.99 and bagged peat-potted bareroots at $6.99. Of course I had to "look." Well, dang if I didn't end up with three roses. REDGOLD in the bag and LOVE and GRANADA in the peat pots. I hope they are what they say they are. We all know how that can go... Been toying around with getting LOVE one day, but just never quite did. And I bought a GRANADA twice in the last several yrs. Don't know what the heck happened to either one. Either they died or were mis-marked or who knows? Never saw the things bloom that I can recall. LOL Only bad thing is, they are the heavily waxed ones. I ended up cutting two of them back quite a lot, and the third one wasn't quite as bad, so I'll let if go and see how they do! Rhe roots were pretty chopped up, but I think they'll be ok. They have nice swollen budeyes, so that's a good sign!

Oh, they had a nice selection of varieties. PROUD LAND, PASCALI, CHICAGO PEACE, PEACE, CAMELOT, PINK PEACE, OREGOLD, CHRYSLER IMPERIAL, MOONLIGHT MAGIC, OLYMPIAD. I don't know what might be lurking in the other boxes they're stacked on top of tho...

You guys are so lucky to be in the warmer zones..I'm so jealous and craving to get my hands dirty..weird I know..Thank god for GW you guys keep me sane..but I think I will need same Rose shopping therapy very very soon

Buford, there are lots of them at both Lowe's in Athens. So I would imagine they are close to being there for you.

I will take a look! Thanks

I just bought perfume delight. I wrote down some of the others to check out on hmf for disease resistance and size. There are a lot of them.

At Beth's suggestion I stopped by Grocery Outlet and got Camara (x2), Oklahoma, Charisma:

They had a good selection, and the $6-$7 prices were great. Camara is one of my favorite roses for cut flowers, I now have seven bushes of it.

I was rather confused seeing all these $12 potted 2 gallon roses at Lowe's today competing against the body bags:

Did they have anything interesting?

Yes actually, I plan on getting Liberty Bell, Trumpeter, Queen Mary 2, and Lowell Thomas or Olympiad. My Olympiad tree rose is not doing too well, so was thinking of buying the bush for cut flowers instead. Those 2 gallon roses are old plants with grooved bark and look very well established. They still have a full selection of body bags on site as well.

Liberty Bell is good rose, I'm just ordering rare Osiria from rosesunlimited, SC they are similar but not related

I'm thinking this is Benardella's miniflora Liberty Bell (BENpete), which I already have. I hope it's the Kordes HT version, which I don't have, but the branches look too thin. I also have Osiria on order from RU, with the understanding that it's a weak grower own-root. I had a budded Osiria years ago that grew fine & was loved. I will just have to try budding it myself this time around.

I think the one selling on HD is miniflora but they don't clearly described which one

Man! We never get body bag roses at our big box stores here in SFl. I wish they would bring them here. The only place that does is Aldi and sometimes Costco, but theirs are poor quality (the aldi ones are great tho). My local Aldi gets there's in next week so I'll be happy for that. The go for about $5 each. They only get a few varieties though.

Wasn't it Florida last year that got all those steeply discounted mislabeled David Austin #5 gallons at HD or Lowes?

yeah, that was me. LOL i guess i shouldn't complain. But its the first and last time i ever saw Austins in my area.

@Lowe's today I got Trumpeter, Queen Mary 2, & Olympiad. They had available

Belinda's Dream

Double Delight

Queen Elizabeth

Chicago Peace

Tiffany

Mr. Lincoln

Oklahoma

Europeana

Scarlet Knight

Proud Land

Tropicana

Pascali

Oregold

Sunsprite

Intrigue

Heirloom

Paradise

... and a bunch of others I can't recall.

Costco in San Leandro has tons of 36" $20 tree roses from Coiners, Santa Rosa has about ten, while the Costco in Rohnert Park had none. Better check your local Costco quick before the bareroot plants get too dried out.

I grabbed a Lady X (one of my favorites) and two Diamond Jubilee standards. I almost bought two Peace, but the canes were desiccated. I saw:

Proud Land

Double Delight

Mister Lincoln

Medallion

Sheer Elegance

Dolly Parton

New Zealand

Maggie Barry

Gold Medal

Gold Glow

Ingrid Bergman

...and several other varieties I can't recall.

Diamond Jubilee standard ? That's amazing

I want sheer elegance and Dolly Parton standard. Let's find out

Yes, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the Diamond Jubilee standards. I want another Lady X, so gotta keep looking. I tend to buy standards in pairs. I was curious about Sheer Elegance and had considered buying one.

Me too like buying things in pairs! :-)

20 x Munstead Wood

1 x Harlow Carr

I think you know 30% off : )

I saw somewhere Evelyn I'm looking into it

Our Grocery Outlet finally opened up all the boxes of their bagged bareroots and bagged peat-potted roses and set them outdoors in big bins, where they should've been in the first place! I didn't go thru them all, but I did see some good ones that I didn't see before. Was surprised to see BROADWAY and TOUCH OF CLASS. I already got some roses there last week, and had most of the rest, so didn't pick up anymore. All in all they've had a lot of good roses this yr.