Lol, the $100 is truly burning a hole in your wallet! :-) I am not sure about your zone though, Buford and Ken are in GA, they'd have better ideas than me. I hope they see your thread. I have Royal Jubilee, Young Lycidas in my shopping cart......I think there is a 25% off coming in Jan (not 100% sure for 2017), I might wait for that since I am not in any hurry.

I don't gow it, but I sure love what I've seen of Olivia! I have The Lovely Fairy, and it has never been without blooms. Very thorny and low growing. I've really enjoyed her. Lisa

Summersrhythm, yes it is burning very brightly, ha ha. Lisa, glad to hear about Lovely Fairy. Does anyone remember last year's Austin's sale. I'd hate to lose out if there is going to be a better sale than the 15%.

Mary Mags is one of my favourite Austins-doesnt grow big,happy in a pot, and keeps trying to produce flowers even during the hottest part of summer- they do tend to be small and washed out tho. Tends to stay small and twiggy, but is so far totally mildew, and comparatively BS free ( high BS and mildew pressure in my garden). The flowers are gorgeous, and much larger that you would expect from such a small plant in spring and autumn.

Just called DA, the 25% off coupon will be mailed out in the next a few weeks! You can call them and make sure you're on their mailing list ( 1-800-328-8893). Can you hold your horses that long? :-) I can feel the heat of your wallet burning from my ice hole here. Lol

Teka, Olivia is on my list (like Lisa :-)) for a light pink. It seems that folks like it very much. I hope it's not hype. Summers, you're a superstar for sharing the coupon information. Thank you. "Ice hole".... funny.

I have Olivia in my garden, bought it from Wayside Gardens summer sale for a really cheap price , may be $14. It's a DA bare root, it grows well for its 1st year.

Towandaaz, You're welcome. I love sales and they make my heart sing! :-)

Summers, I just called and I'm in! Thanks for the input on ORA. Nice price you got there, too.

Thank your Summersrhythm. I get their catalog so I am hopefully on their list but will call. Curdle, I had Mary Mag in my Florida garden and loved her. The scent was wonderful and she looked good with any neighboring roses. She is a real blender. I had her next to The Dark Lady and they were gorgeous together, also shade tolerant there, not sure here.

If you're looking for disease resistance, look at Olivia. Its very very resistant. Scepter D'isle is as well but not nearly as resistant. Oliva is downright indestructible. However she may get big for you. Another one that is a good pink is Sharifa Asma and it stays small, but its about as disease resistant as Scepter D. If you are interested in cutting them, Olivia is the best for that of the three.

Also, I'm trying the Ancient Mariner this year, its supposed to be very resistant to disease and is a nice deeper pink.

You can now search by disease resistance on the new DA site so take a look.

Some other disease resistant pinks are the Wedgwood Rose, Gentle Hermione, St. Swithun, Spirit of Freedom and A Shropshire Lad (cl), but all of these will get big.

Now you've got me looking on the DA site! I've seen some lovely pics on this forum of Molineux. DA site doesn't say anything about its size. Does anyone know? Lisa

SoFL Rose, I had Sharifa years ago and the scent was great but the foliage was so funky, all crinkly. Do you have it? I may have just had a bad one. Lisa, Molineux is very pretty and much more multi colored than usually shows in pics. Mine stayed small in FL and as SoFl Rose can tell you, very few stay small there. It's on my list. I just don't have room in my yellow/red bed.

I bought 2 Molineux from Wayside Gardens for $11-12 each, if you guys can wait, they'd mark down their DAs at the end of May every year, that's the time to buy......sale prices were $9-14......for that price I bought a pile DA roses. :-) Did you guys miss the sale? There was a thread just for the sale, everyone reported what they got, it was a shopping party online. :-)

Nice to hear Molineux stays small for you in Florida. I too, live in the land of giant growing roses. That's nice and all, but when you have limited space and want lots of variety, it's a problem. I'm really glad you mentioned the multicolor tendencies of Molineux. I was a bit disappointed when I saw the photo on the DA site. It is just a straight yellow there, and it was the different apricot/soft yellow that attracted me in the first place.

I just signed up for the DA newsletter. Does anyone know if the 25% off coupon will come in an email? Or do I need to be on a physical mailing list? Hopefully Summersrhythm or towandaaz, you can tell me since you called. Otherwise I could call them too. They must be wondering why so many people are suddenly calling to make sure they receive their 25% off coupon:) Funny. Mary Magdalene is on my mind as well. Especially as she stays small and may be unavailable soon. I have no business buying more roses, but I guess there are far worse addictions. I can't help myself. They make me happy and that joy counts for a lot. I'd sure love me some new roses:) I'm sure you all understand, and it's great having a place to connect with people that do. My family thinks I'm crazy. Well, I never said I wasn't! Crazy, I mean:) Lisa

Lisa, the 25% coupon will be in your mailbox, delivered by your mailman. :-)

Yes, I also called and confirmed my mailing address and inquired whether a coupon would be included - yes!

Lisa, I was also feeling a little nutty about roses and have felt very connected here on this forum.

Me too. I am a roseaholic.

Oh Summer, You are bad for my budget. I'll keep an eye out in May for Wayside's sale. Thanks for the heads up.

Lol, that's just 1 sale.......JP always has lovely summer sales too in May with $25 off, $50 off coupons. I ended up with 14 rose trees for about $14 each ........and Breck's has wonderful summer sales too, this year they had 5 roses for $19.99 first, then marked down to 5 for $14.99! My goodness, we were sooo happy for getting piles piles roses! The best part of this sale is you won't know what you get until you open the package, it's Christmas in May! Now I am kind out of room, I won't go too crazy next year, it's your turn now. :-) You'd better take cash for Valentine's Day. :-)

You are bad. I checked Breck's and the sale is going on NOW, $25 off $50. Some pretties there too. See Summersrhythm, you aren't the only 'bad influence.' LOL

Lol, you're catching up. There is a small new nursery in FL called A Reverence for Roses, they had a wonderful sale in Sept, $8, $10 each band, and their bands were huge, the biggest I have never seen. I think you'd love them too. :-)

A lot of my DA roses are from Hortico in Canada, I found this nursery through this forum, they have a huge selection of English roses, some of the older DA roses they carry are hard to find in the US. If you have time look them up. :-)

My favorite pink DA roses are Sharifa Asma mentioned by SoFL and Queen of Sweden. They bloom alot and the flowers have nice forms. Yes, SA does have crinkly leaves and rather thorny canes but the flowers more than compensate for these shortcomings. Both seem to have upright growth habit with QoS taller (4-5ft).

Sharifa Asma

Queen of Sweden

I do have Olivia Rose and Scepter D'Isle. OR did horribly in the heat - blooming small flat roses. SD blooms blow too quickly so I have little time to appreciate the blooms. By summer's end SD will be bare of leaves 2/3 of the canes down.

Karen how is the rebloom on Queen of Sweden? I had it once and you are right about disease resistance. Mine didn't bloom much but it was in a pot and I didn't have it long before I moved.

Biggest flush in spring, decent flush in fall, and blooms here and there throughout the summer. Unfortunately, I don't get to see many blooms in the summer because the Japanese Beetles attack them and the rose bush sorta goes into inactive mode during those hot months. Due to work schedule, I don't water the roses as much as I should.

Scarborough Fair is perhaps my favorite DA rose, and fits the bill for a compact plant with great re-bloom. I have also grown Skylark and found them to be very in different character, even though they look alot alike in the catalogue. In color Skylark it is the brighter of the two; Scarborough is a shell pink paling to almost white with a porcelain like quality, yet despite the delicate appearance, Scarborough holds onto her petals better than Skylark. Skylark can get leggy and has sparse somewhat coarse foliage, re-bloom is average. Scarborough never shows bare legs, such a healthy, pretty, dainty rose.

I didn't take any good pictures of her this summer, so here is a picture of Mary Magdalene instead, and of course you must get her.

This is such great info. Thanks for your help everyone.

Just to say about 'Scarborough Fair', apart from the very long blooming season - I must have at least a dozen buds waiting to open even now, although the flowers won't be much to look at [-4C last night], they make these nice orange hips..

Your Mary Rose is gorgeous, Summers! What a lovely color!

Thanks Karen! :-) Love that color too. I bought 9 Mary Roses, lost 1 to the cold winter, didn't cover the grafted parts right, so much for mulching in the dark in a hurry. This year I did the same thing-mulching in the dark in Dec, but I checked them all in the daylight after, I missed a few and didn't cover well on some, so I got another trailer mulch to cover them all up, l learned my lesson from 1 Mary Rose.

Hi guys, the 25% coupons should be sent out in 2 weeks, please let us know when you receive it. I am far away from TX, it might take 1 whole week just to get here.....I am wondering if we'd have the same coupon code.....

Not that I need anymore pink roses but I think that you have sold me on Mary Rose. I am infatuated with that lavender pink color. So gorgeous! Is yours on own root or grafted, Summers? Does Mary Rose good for cutting?

I don't get much rebloom on my Mary Rose. I get loads of flowers from Charles Rennie MacKintosh & Wife of Bath instead. If you like that MR pink, I think Harlow Carr is supposed to be an improved MR.

I'm also waiting for that 25% coupon code. I've already placed my DA order, just waiting for the code to finalize & ship.

Karen, Mary Rose repeats very well in my garden in zone 6a. It's not really good for cutting, the blooms would last about 3 days the longest( cut early), but much longer than Heritage though (2 days if cut early). Mary Rose grows long canes, I tie the canes together between the roses (end to end) that helps them to have more blooms, and plus we don't have high heat in the summer and have a lot of water/rain for them to drink. :-) You should have the same result since you are in 6b.

I also like Harlow Carr, I ordered It from Hortico for next spring. I have Wife of Bath, just planted this year, still too early to tell. Will check out CRM and Mr Pink. Thanks for mentioning it Romogen. :-)

LOL, it's not Mr. Pink, I was writing shorthand for "Mary Rose pink." DA's new releases have only been 10% improvements on each successive generation. Speaking of pink, So far I like Huntington Rose very much. It's an awkward name, I wish Clair Martin had allowed DA to name the rose after him instead of the Huntington library. I have been fruitlessly searching for Bibi Maizoon, but HR is almost identical. In the same mold, I purchased Heather Austin last year, and have The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild, Skylark, & Royal Jubilee on order. These roses are really just updated versions of The Reeve or The Miller.

I have NOT been impressed by Wildeve nor Queen of Sweden. I also doubt Olivia Rose will measure up to the marketing hype.

Charles Rennie MacKintosh has been a favorite since the very beginning:

Lol, that's pretty funny. I added a lot of DAs this year, have over 100 now, but a lot of them are too new to say anything, Huntington Rose, Heather, Olivia, The Reeve, Queen of Sweden.......I like Wildeve, it repeats slower than Mary Rose, but when it's in bloom, it's beautiful, a lot of blooms for a young rose, pretty wild. It gets morning sun, afternoon shade, early evening sun. I think it's all because we are in diff locations, so we have diff results. :-) I love The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild, it's about 5-6-7? yrs old. Well, I like Charles Rennie MacKintosh. It's pretty. I checked it out on HFM, it gets BS and PM though. It might be better in a dry place, it's pretty humid here. I'd like to give it a try if BS and PM aren't huge issues. Our summer high temp is around 80-85F, we get a lot of rain from the Great Lakes...... I put it in the DAs shopping cart for now. :-)

I read about the 25% off coupon here and I emailed DA to see if I was on the mailing list. They told me it was only a 15% off coupon.. But whatever, a coupon is a coupon.

Oh, this is not good. I called DA again this morning, this time the lady told me for 2017, it's only 15% coupon, they had 25%. For 2016. The 1st lady (DA Cust Service) I talked to a few days ago told me wrong.......I asked if they were going to mail out 25% coupon again same as this year. Sorry guys for the bad news. I have to take some roses out of my DA shopping cart.....

Drat. Well the good news is we can order now with the 15% promotion through Feb 24th, coupon code ULA. No need to wait for a coupon.

Summers, I've been meaning to tell you how much I like your Ingenious Mr Fairchild photos. He looks so much like Brother Cadfael. Is the Ingenious one a large rose, too? More photos of your garden, please--I'm beginning to think you are a stealth gardener we see so little of it--ha. Diane

OP, where are you ordering your weeping China doll from? I want one badly but cannot seem to locate one online. Thanks, and have fun spending your DA gift card!

I got my Weeping China Doll from Angel Gardens.

Thanks Diane. Running around just got back home. Visited my old backyard neighbor at the nursing home, then went grocery shopping for New Years Eve.......The Ingenious is not a large rose in my garden, it's under a pine tree, it might be bigger if it doesn't have to fight with the tree roots. It's about 4' tall and 3' wide (on top). I love this rose, regret I didn't get a bare root from DA last year, now they don't sell it anymore. I know Linda at LongAgoRoses has it. My gardens are messy, filled with weeds, you sure can see that in the photos. :-) I am a part time rose gardener, a part time rider, a full time worker, so I don't have a lot of time to keep the gardens looking neat......I love your Young Lycidas & Jude The Obscure, they're in my DA shopping cart since day 1. I also like Charles Rennie Mackintosh,Wollorton Old Hall, Royal Jubilee, Comte De Chambord, England's Rose, Janet, Thomas A Becket...... but without the 25% coupon, I have to take some out of the cart....... Most of my DAs are from Hortico, that's my go to place. I only order roses from DA if I can't find it on Hortico's website. Now I have to go back to the DA 's shopping cart to take out some roses......their roses are soooo expensive, not a cheerful process. :-)

Teka2, thanks for the coupon code!

I prefer Hortico to DA myself -- less virus. I do the same thing about checking Hortico first. DA is phasing out Charles Rennie MacKintosh, so you should buy it before it's gone. Young Lycidas, Jude the Obscure, Comte de Chambord, Wollerton Old Hall & Royal Jubilee are readily available in the foreseeable future.

I think Royal Jubilee is a total sleeper, I was never interested until I saw @malorena's pictures of a mature plant and was hooked. It's like Charlotte, slow to mature, and will probably take 7 years to reach its glory.

I'm also smitten by Spirit of Freedom. Might not open properly in your climate, but it's breathtaking in California, the huge, full, cabbagy flowers fade to silvery mauve pink and the fragrance and rebloom is excellent -- disease resistant too. I have two climbing a fence, wish I had bought 10 more when they were on sale last year:

romogen, I want to say a big thank you! It's finally done! I ordered 7! It's like pulling a tooth out, so painful! The roses were flying in the shopping cart, taking out, in and out for many hrs, I like them all.......I ordered 2 Charles Rennie MacKintosh after reading your post, and I took out Royal Jubilee, Comte de Chambord, I can find them later. Thanks a lot for your help! :-)

I have 1 Spirit of Freedom from Hortico, I may get 1 more, I also like to add Rose-Marie, The Squire to my spring order. do you like them?

I've had minimal success with Heritage, except one particular clone that; unfortunately, got trampled by my neighbor's construction workers and never got replaced. I like Rose-Marie for its rarity, which of late, has been fueling more of my rose purchases.

The Squire is my favorite red rose, even surpassing Oklahoma. When available, I purchase three new plants every year to increase my cutting garden. It's a weak plant that should be planted in groups of three. To date, no other red Austin has comparable flowers of impeccable quality. I cannot imagine a rose garden without The Squire, it will always have a spot in my yard.

I recommend you get three plants of The Squire, budded, from Hortico. Arrange them in a triangle about 20 inches apart and plant them near a favorite path or garden seat in full sun. Feed them well and refrain from over pruning, but rather, just shape the three bushes to form one large balanced shrub.

Thanks romogen, I will add those to my spring order, 3 Squire for sure. :-) I am wondering what other roses DA might stop selling in the near future......do you know? Is there a list like last year's?