That would be amazing. I've snagged several at Lowes plus ordered lots from online vendors but I agree they'd have lots more sales with one concentrated place to purchase them from.

Please check out https://palatineroses.com/ they have lots of kordes roses and have excellent customer service

There are also Kordes roses at Northland Rosarium. They have some climbing roses too. I received three Kordes roses from them this fall and I am very happy with the plants.

Yes, it was nice when a person could order directly from Kordes. Though, I had only done so the one time and when I had opened the box, I was very disappointed to see the roses being in an open plastic bag with nothing whatsoever wrapped around the roots and the entire plants being extremely bone dry shrivelled up. I had kept in close contact with Customs and the roses had been received to me very soon after arriving into Canada, so I think the problem might have occurred on Kordes end. Anyways, I had seen little hope in doing so, but I went ahead and potted all ten of them up and was VERY surprised when six of them had slowly came to life from the graft. Meanwhile, I had notified Kordes and they had sent out a fresh shipment that was received to me in very fine order and yes, in a closed plastic bag. Most of those I had selected where of floribunda / shrub type that with a bit of protection of the crown had thrived in my climate. I sure wish that Kordes still did direct mail as in the past. I love their style of rose bushes with glossy shiny foliage topped with l-o-n-g lasting blooms!

I wish there were more Kordes roses grafted on Fortuniana , especially the new ones .

Like Austin roses, some of them do not like to bloom in heat. It's try and see for me. I get some that are willing to bloom and some that will not bloom past the spring and spend the rest of the year becoming huge green plants. The ones that will bloom all year have been outstanding in other ways too.

Which ones bloom well for you Kitty? Do you have any from their Sunbelt collection?

I have the exact same problem Kitty. Many of my Kordes go vegetative for most of the year and only bloom in cooler weather or in early spring. Elegant Fairy Tale is guilty of this and she's a huge climber in my climate. She's picked up a bit now in year 4, but she's much more plant than bloom.

My Summer Romance and Sunny Sky rose both seem to be on that same path as well. Both just growing huge with no blooms.

Meanwhile every Veranda rose I've grown has been spectacular and both Beverly and Wedding Bells are beyond excellent (particularly wedding bells!). I've also had good luck so far with Plum Perfect, however my Earth Angel seems to send out many blind shoots as well, although it has given me a few good blooms and is only about 6 months old. Cream Veranda, Lavendar Veranda and Chica Veranda have all been wonderful. Cream Veranda being particularly outstanding.

The vigarosas also seem to be doing well for me. Roxy Vigarosa is a good bloomer as well as Solero Vigorosa (I LOVE this little rose). I also got one that was not labled that I'm sure has to be either Raspberry Vigorosa or Flamingo Kolorscape and it too has performed pretty well. Its more leaf than flower, but at least the leaves are clean and attractive.

This is why I wish Kordes had a website where you could brows and shop all their roses. I'm looking to try more of them because even though some dont like the heat, others have been truly wonderful in my hot and humid climate, and I really like their compact roses and ground cover roses.

I'm very interested in some of the new climbers they are offering. Particularly Florintina and Jasmina, but I'm concerned they too will grow big with no blooms as their larger roses tend to do that, while their more compact roses perform better in my high heat.

In case your interested. It's not necessarily just your environment. As I have much the same results here. Without going into too much detail the Veranda, Kolorscape, and Sunbelt collections are the overall best bloomers for me. The Fairy Tale roses are a mixed bag both in terms of size and bloom power. Elegant FT is very much like an old garden rose. It was healthy but had for me the best bloom in spring with much less bloom the rest of the season. Caramella bloomed a bit more but not well enough for my short season and available space. Both of these were large shrubs here.and both were removed in their 5th year. Many of these can be pruned or pinch to encourage better branching and bloom. In my area this just does not help as a good polar winter will kill the canes.

With so many new Kordes roses being sold own root and I'm not patient enough to wait for reports. Fairly sure I now have 3 or 4 that may not do well here.

Hello All,

Northland Rosarium (located in Spokane, WA) carries approximately 30+ varieties of Kordes Roses (hybrid teas, floribundas, shrubs, ground covers, climbers). One of our favorites from last year was the new, lavender climber, Quicksliver and the new, yellow hybrid tea, South Africa.

We ship Kordes roses to all US states. We ship vigorously growing plants in a 4x4x6 inch rose bands. April - September. Request our free catalog: www.northlandrosarium.com

Questions? Let me know here or call us!

We are also a major North American supplier of David Austin roses (over 20 varieties). Ship bare root only from Feb and Mar. Have 3 galloon potted DA roses available for pick up at the nursery in Spokane, Washington April - September.

Carol, thank you for posting. I was fortunate to see pictures of your beautiful gardens. They are stunning! Warmed my heart during this cold and no sun winter where I live. Also, thank you for growing your roses on their own root. Having to tear out my former rose garden due to root stock reversion, I now only have own root roses in my garden. They are not easy roses to find.

For me, I see such beautiful pictures of roses that I can't get, let alone get on their own root. Ugh, it is frustrating. I know, licensing issues, etc., prevent this. It cannot be easy for a nursery to specialize in roses when we are such a throw away or only want quick, easy things society. Any chances of Lago Maggiore or Pooh Bear coming to the US soon?

Hi back from a lovely vacation = warm and sunny. I am flattered you want Newflora to sell from the website but to date we think distribution is much improved by licensing a variety of producers across the country. I will also reflect that I read on this site a lot of heartburn about David Austin prices and policies so I am not sure how happy everyone is with the Austin model. What we have been working hard on is improving distribution to garden centers and big boxes in N. America. The smaller internet sites offer a really large number of new Kordes varieties and will often have the newest releases. We are rapidly increasing the number of Kordes available in all regions.

On climate I would agree the Fairytale tend to grow large in warm areas. i do not think Caramella is the choice for colder climates. We do send roses out to a large number of sites to test for climate. The Kolorscape collection has proved to be USDA Zone 4 hardy in a 4 year trial even Lemon Fizz. The HT collection Eleganza has survived many years in a trial in Montreal all with good results. It used to be considered a USDA Zone 4 but it is now considered USDA Zone 5. The Fairytale also did well in this trial and show excellent results in colder climates. Hot weather- the Sunbelt Collection - hence the name were all chosen for heat tolerance. Trials have also shown Beverly, Wedding Bells, Grande Amore, Winter Sun to be very good in hot weather. Also when looking at size we try to give a good size average on our website and yes for N. American gardens we think this will be closer to what you will experience than the German estimates on size. So much more to share - I will try and get more information onto the site.

Chris

I agree Beverly and wedding bells have both done wonderfully for me. Also Plum Perfect. ❤️

Thank you Chris2486..I bought allot of Kordes last year they all wonder full just lack fragrance that the DAs have

Parfuma Collectionrosecrazy, you should try the Kordes Parfuma line.... very nice fragrance.

Thanks Vaporvac -I did get Two dark desires from Palatine but I don't think we can the rest of them here in the ice hole...Earth Angel looks amazing actually they look great if I could find them here I would buy all of them

I do not understand the comments of Kordes not having fragrance. The new introductions are full of fragrance and not just the Parfuma:

Beverly - Eleganza HT has won nearly every fragrance award in the world including most fragrant at the Biltmore

Savannah Sunbelt won top roses at the Biltmore while also winning most most fragrant

Polar Express Sunbelt won Best Rose at the Biltmore last September and is also quite fragrant.

Wedding Bells, Sunny Sky also HTs are quite fragrant

Two new climber introductions Tangerine Dream and Kiss Me Kate are exceptionally fragrant.

Cinderella Fairytale is exceptionally fragrant

I could go on but I just want to say Kordes is creating not just disease resistant roses but fragrant disease resistant roses.

On availability in Ontario of course there is Palatine who carries a lot of kordes varieties, but if you want to have your local garden center carry Kordes there are two wholesale suppliers carrying Kordes varieties - Pan American and Bakker. The nursery can contact these wholesale companies to buy in Kordes.

I have seen lots more Kordes in my area and I'm thrilled. I got sunny Sky and Beverly (ahem, like 5 of them) from my local Home Depot and even though my grafted one is much bigger (on fortuniana), the own root ones perform admirably. I really love wedding bells too. I think it should be added to the sunbelt collection because its done splendidly in my garden, although mine is on Fortuniana.

I do find that on average "most" Kordes don't have fragrance (like the veranda series and such) which is where that comment may have come from. But, Beverly is one of THE mos fragrant roses in my garden, and not all D.A. roses have fragrance. Olivia is a great rose but no scent. I'd say disease resistance is my top priority because without health you'll have very little bloom (at least here) and I'd much rather have lots of blooms than just a few fragrant ones.

I personally love fragrance and want all roses to have fragrance. There are a lot of people that don't find it all that important and as I have discovered in my work in roses there are a lot of people who don't really have a good sense of smell.

Introducing roses is a case of looking at the whole rose - all the attributes. You are quite right only one Veranda has fragrance - Cream Veranda but the collection is based on bright colors that are good own roots, that repeat bloom quickly and that have flowers that can be truck shipped open without shattering to places like Lowes. Fragrance would be a plus but not a deciding factor. On the other hand Parfuma must be both exceptionally fragrant and have the highest disease resistance.

You are right about Wedding Bells in hot places. The other Eleganza (HT) roses with good heat tolerance are Beverly, Winter Sun and Sunny Sky. I think that Fiji also does well -but absolutely no fragrance.

Another rose you should try and find for Florida is Soul Sister Sunbelt - it has performed wonderfully in Athens, Georgia trials and has a great fragrance

Another new introduction to the Sublet is Sierra Lady which should perform well for you. I think K&M is selling it budded on fortuniana.

I recently got Savannah and it had its first bloom this morning. I was very pleased with the color and shape of its bloom.

I only have SR, DD and Fire Opal. FO also has a lovely soft fragrance in the newly opened bloom. Chris, while we have your attention, I'd like to ask if there's anything to do to encourage blooming in Summer Romance. Many here have written they have 0 blooms on first and even second year plants and this accounts for Chamblee dropping it this year. I feel lucky I saw about 6 on each of mine, but that pales in comparison to DD and FO. SR and FO were first year plants from Chamblees. DD was grafted from Lowe's.

In another post last year you also mentioned perhaps posting pics of the correct way to pinch and train 1st year plants. I think many of us, especially us newbies, could benefit from that if you have time this spring.

It's wonderful you contribute so much detail about your roses that is hard to come by with a single blurb.

I have seen the comments about the blooming and I am puzzled. It may be that it is a slow rose to mature but I grow my field stock from own root cuttings and I have not noticed it to be exceptionally slow to bloom, but perhaps I am wrong. What I do know is that the mature plants have very good blooming habit. I was in the production fields for roses in both California and In Arizona this fall and I was paying attention to this variety. It looked good with lots of bloom. So my guess is that when it is small - purchased as a band it is exceptionally slow to mature. I know that Chamblee has pulled back from offering it. We have had no problems with the field grown 2 and 3 gallon material going out to Lowes blooming and that will be available again this year. I wish I had a more concise answer. Of all the fragrances in the Kordes roses this is my favorite.

I have agreed to do both a video and a written article on how to pinch and train young plants. As I do this I will try and post some good images.

Can't thank you enough for that info! I agree thinking about it, that it must be the small size of the plants (plus mine was completely smushed and broken when it arrived). You totally reminded me that I had seen SR at Lowe's before mine arrived from Chamblee and all those plants had tons of fragrant blooms even though they were clearly neglected and unwatered. I had completely forgotten that! and now feel relieved as SR was the perfect colour and growth habit that I wanted. Plus, it looks beautiful next to Dark Desire.

Is there any way to know which varieties Lowe's will carry?

My Summer Romance one gallon still hasn't bloomed for me either.

My Savannahs have been doing great, lots of blooms and fantastic foliage. Strong lovely fragrance from the first bloom. I have a feeling that this one is going to do well in the colder climates also after seeing how well it weathered our arctic fronts. Still green and shiny!

Lots of First Crush doing well and bloomed almost as well in full fall shade as full sun. Strong fragrance from the first bloom.

Several Earth Angels much taller than the others in this list. No blooms yet, but only planted last fall.

I expected Beverly to be the tallest but she's the smallest by a couple of feet so far.

VV, I wonder if Summer Romance doesn't like our heat but will do great for you?

We grow it commercially in the 50,000 range in Phoenix AZ and it blooms great there so I don't think that it is heat. Most of the Lowes bushes are grown out in the Orlando area and set bloom well.

Own root Beverly here is about 4.5' with tons of blooms. Do keep pinching it until you have about 5 major canes for best performance. In February I prune it back to 2.5'tall to keep it a nice height all summer.

Could SR not like Clay? My Savannah died in it but are wonderful in the sandy soil.

Aren't Phoenix and Orlando sandy soil?

Mine is in sandy soil and it was purchased with blooms from Lowes as a large 2 gallon plant. It never bloomed after the initial blooms when purchased faded. I cut it back hard about 9 months ago (at Chris' suggestion) and it just grew right back to 5 feet and again no blooms. Its REDICULOUSLY healthy! Like, the healthiest rose I have ever seen, ever. Leaves all the way down to the bottom! I really do hope it gets blooming because if it does, this will be one fantastic rose. I just wish it would bloom! Maybe if I train the canes out like a climber it will give me flowering laterals?

My SR finally bloomed a couple of weeks ago. Color was a bit fuschia and the scent hasn't quite developed yet. Plant still looks great!

Our Lowes has a bunch of Summer Romance and Dark Desires that they were neglecting badly last week. I think they are headed for the clearance racks now because they had trucks out front full of new stuff. So tomorrow, I am going to go grab a few.

The Summer Romances were blooming in bone dry pots with wilted leaves, the poor things. The flowers were beautiful though.

Sorry if this is a bit off topic but does anyone grow Pomponella? I've been wanting to try it for a couple years now but never seem to hear much about it. It's not the easiest to find either. As far as I know only Rogue Valley and Palatine offer it.

Roses Unlimited also carries Pomponella on its own roots if you are interested.

Well there is a Kordes website for european shoppers and I like to visit it from time to time to see the new introductions.

Wow Hcarnevale, that is one awesome looking Pomponella. I planted a baby one last spring. I didn't anticipate that it will be robust in zone 5. Hmmm, I may have to move it. Thanks for the info.

Pomponella is gorgeous! I havent seen that one here yet. Does it climb? How big will it get in a warm year around climate?

jjpeace, and anyone interested my first 3 Pomponella from Palatine where huge for my zone also. Buy the 3rd year many thick canes would reach over the top of my head ( 5'5" ) then fountain out making her anywhere from 8 to 12 feet across. The grafts eventually rotted out. She had gone own root so I was able to save a good hunk of her own root and replanted else where. She's making a come back as an own root. I also planted a new one from Palatine just in case.

hcarnevale, I really miss those beautiful blooms. Yours is gorgeous.

Bonnie I don't think I've ever seen a warm zone photo of Pomponella but I have visions of a disappearing home.

Chris, Plum perfect is in the sunbelt collection for its heat tolerance but can it also do well in zone 8b in a mild wet costal climate?

Thanks for all the details on the Kordes roses! I'm really looking forward to seeing what Quicksilver can do :D

Wow, Patty, thats crazy big..kinda scared what it would do here unless it dislikes heat or humidity lol.

Patty do you happen to have a photo of your Pomponella? It sounds gorgeous. Do you anticipate the own root to get as large as when it was grafted? Would love to add this to my garden but now I'm debating ordering from RU own root or waiting till next year and getting it grafted from Palatine. We're in the same area so I would love to hear your opinion.

'Pomponella' is available right now from RVR, own root.

kordes newflora website is not working for me for some time ?

Probably because Kordes rights were sold to Star Roses & Plants and Newflora no longer owns the rights to Kordes roses in the US. :(

So where do we get Kordes roses information from ? star website ?