If I understand well, early year selection (shipment?) start from the middle of January. Right on their home page: 'Sortiment Frühjahr 2017/ ab Mitte Januar'.

Maybe they are expecting you to contact them to give them the go ahead to ship, since last time you told them to withold shipment for the time being?

It's a beautiful site but not the easiest to gather information from. They say that they're continuing to ship 2016 orders in the order they were made and as weather permits.

Thanks, both of you. I can't "see" anything on the new site,really; it seems to be totally under construction or something. I guess I'll try calling,since after all, it IS now mid-January,so maybe Nik's right. I wish they'd read their e-mails, though.

Well, I tried phoning and couldn't get through,but I found a link to their Facebook page and left a note there ,also mentioning that I'd e-mailed them. Yesterday they answered me! either because they saw the message on Fbook, or else realized that it was me trying to get through on the phone. Anyway, they can't ship now because of the frozen ground and will contact me when they do. I feel a lot better! Thank you both, Melissa and Nik, for your comments. It IS a bit difficult to deal with nurseries that aren't well -versed in international transactions, but honestly their assortment is very unusual and I hope it will wind up being worth the trouble

I'm glad you got through and got the information you wanted, and can now relax knowing all is in order. I need to take a look at their roses.

Update: I recieved my order and am pleased. Some of the plants are of a VERY nice size. Some are very small,but for the most part acceptable (keep in mind that the varieties I ordered are, for the most part, pretty rare here in Europe),and I must point out that they just out-and-out GAVE me two plants of "Huddersfield Choral Society" ,which are very, very small. In fact, they said they were sold out on this variety; this seems to me like good buisness practice: these little guys probably have a better chance to survive and hopefully some day thrive in warm Italy, whereas in chilly Germany they'd be doomed. So by giving me, a new customer, these plants free, they do tend to encourage me to like their company and consider ordering from them again. I still would vastly prefer a more communicative attitude,but all in all, I'd say that they are pretty good!