Fantastic !! What a full garden you will have . Strawberry hill , sceptred isle and royal jubilee are all new to me as well. Royal jubilee has taken off like crazy , I'm really excited for all them ! Can't wait to compare notes!

Too funny! I hope Strawberry Hill does well for you it looks really pretty

Wow!!! What fun!! You're going to have some gorgeous blooms! Can't wait to see pics!!

Nice finding! Did your husband notice them? :-)

I think they followed you home because they knew you'd be kind to them. Looking forward to pics too, though they make me envious because I can't grow them.

Aw, I love when they do that. My husband never notices so I'll wish you luck as well.

Awesome, Halloblondie! Sorry you couldn't get LoS but you bought some great ones - large healthy plants, too. My local nursery discontinued selling all roses but knockout and drifts :( Better on the pocket book? Nope. Just ordered more online!

I can't wait to see them bloom too! They are really nice looking plants. I did notice after though that the small wrapped tags (the one on a branch or stem) say that they are from texas. I thought that was weird that they would come directly from there. Now I'm curious if that means they are actually grown in texas? Are they own root or grafted? If they are grafted, than what are they grafted on? Does that affect how they will do here? I'm still learning all of the technicalities of graft types, own root, etc. If anyone could advise on this that would be great.

As for the hubby, he still hasn't noticed the ones I already planted. These are spaced out in multiple beds. It's also a good thing that I still have a collection of empty pots on the side of the house from last year, I just put the new ones in with the old, haha!

Wooo weee!!! That's a good haul! I know you're super excited! My hubby never notices anything!! But he says if they make me happy then he's happy! I know you're going to love them come bloom time! Austins are some of my very favorites!

You got some great roses. None of my local nurery ever have DA. I hope they do really well for you?

They are most likely grafted , on dr Huey ( found on the da website.) just bury the graft ( looks like a knob ). If I recall correctly some bury it right away and others bury it before winter but when the rose goes dormant. I hope someone chimes in about that for you! :)

All great picks. Wish I had space for Royal Jubilee. It is too big for my tiny garden.

Austin roses in the U.S. are grown in Tyler TX. Bareroot grafted on DH (and maybe ownroot ) are subject to the previous growing seasons weather conditions; monsoons, drought,etc. because the are field grown. The potted plts. you bought are `probably` both grown indoors and grafted. A quick call to Tyler (800-328-8893) should clairify this info. Bury your graft 2-3 inches below the soil level (you`re 5a right?) when you plant it. In the fall you will need to mound additional protection. I also put a protective sleeve around my plts. and then place the winterizing material inside the sleeve. Sorry, off subject. Call Austin to confirm potted plts. are grafted, I`m pretty sure, better safe than sorry! Keep us updated please.

Best wishes!

Thank you for the grafting info. Well some are grafted, some are not. I got them all planted today. They did not stay intact with the soil in the pots. It was like they were potted up and shipped right away. But it gave me a good look at the roots. So all of them are rated zone 4-5 except Molineaux which is zone 6, I'm chancing those ones here. Well the good news is the 2 Molineaux are own root, Yay! Better chance of winter survival here. I planted all of them deep as per usual around here. I can't wait to see them grow & bloom.

All of my other austins from last year survived winter too!

You bet I'll be posting pics!

Molineux, be still my heart

@jjpeace - I hope my molineaux look like those. Glad to hear yours survive.

I planted 2 Pat Austins in a back row & 2 molineaux in the front of those. Here's hoping that plan pans out.

I guess if you are redoing your garden you should hold off. It's a pain to move things & keep stuff in pots for too long. But if you are interested, I got these austins at the barrie garden gallery. There is a bradford garden gallery too. That's a bit closer for you. It seems to be a franchise so I assume they all stock austins in the spring. There is also a gary's garden gallery in lindsay & lakeside garden gallery in brampton, plus other locations in Ontario. I would also assume Vandemeers in Whitby or Sheridan carries Austins. They are a pretty decent garden centres.

Thanks for the recommendation HalloBlondie. I will keep them in mind. Good luck with your beautiful roses and keep us posted.

Congratulations thats awesome...well that you only got nine lol, they all look great. I went to Vandermeer last week they had a few DA's , see list below . I did not buy any I did not have enough time and I have nine of the below , there is only one I really want is AB darby

Charles Austin

Abraham Darby

Othello

Gertrude Jekyll

A Shropshire Lad

Crown Princess Margareta

Winchester Cathedral

William Morris

Teasing Georgia

Rose Marie

Heritage

Mary rose

@rosecrazy - you want abe darby? They had it & you didn't get it? That's crazy, lol! I planted abe last year. Mentioned my issue with it, in another thread. Grew like crazy, but no blooms. Hopefully, this spring. I was going to pick up another abe if I saw one. Just in case my current one is a dud. I was also wanting to try crown princess margareta.

I love Austins but I am reluctant to buy more because of its fragrance. It may sound crazy but I do believe it attract more japanese beetles to my garden. I am thinking of mix it with other plants than just growing roses exclusively.

Just wanted to update & post some pics of first blooms from these purchases. They have all settled in & are growing. Some have taken off quicker than others. But they are all doing well.

Charles Austin

Sceptre'd isle

Pat Austin

Molineaux

Strawberry Hill

Benjamin Britten

Jubilee Celebration

Carding Mill

Wow those are lookin good. Time of the year when I'd like to go out singing and dancing thru the garden.

They look wonderful. I love the first blooms of new plants, so exciting!

They all look wonderful. I'm in zone 5 myself and my own root Molineaux overwinters fine in the ground. I do get a lot of winter kill on it, but it comes back totally fine every year. However, my Pat Austin, also own root, didn't overwinter very well for me in the ground in two different locations. It was winter killed both time to the ground and I actually thought I lost her. She did finally pop up, but it was pretty late in the season. For this reason, I have pulled her from the ground and put her in a pot which is overwintered in my unheated garage. This is just an FYI..... Hopefully yours will spring right back in the Spring.

To answer the original question I find that roses tend to hook onto me with their thorns. Maybe that is what happened to you.

Very nice, really like that first photo of Jubilee Celebration.

Carding Mill just speaks to me

I love that color

So you planned on getting 3-4 then when you got home 5 others had hitched a ride?...lol

Nice roses!

All your roses look fantastic.I’m so glad I got Ben Britten,
I wish I had grabbed Jubilee
Celebration yours looks gorgeous and Carding mill very nice as well..but they were so expensive
at $40 each( $39:99) and I already had
five.I did go back a few days later when I
got paid again..but most were gone and all that was left were not looking very
healthy so I did not buy any…may be next year. Or maybe this year once I get
rid of my peonies . BTW I did get Ab darby his amazing I have to post picture's again soon..thanks for posting all those lovelies....

Wow they are all doing great! Beautiful photos!

@rosecrazy - what other 4 did you end up getting besides benjamin britten? Is your abe blooming lots or just growing? Just curious to compare.

@Embothrium - so very true!

@hcarnevale - thanks for the info about Pat Austin. I really wanted lady of shalott, but couldn't get it. So thought Pat Austin would substitute. I like it (the colour), but I know it is not as favourable and doesn't have great reviews. So who knows. The good thing is they are planted close to the house. Maybe it will help shelter them a bit.

So I noticed at the top on my original list I put royal jubilee. Where in fact it is jubilee celebration. It's pretty sad that I mix up names of roses in my own garden!

@jim - yes they hitched a ride. It happens everytime I go near a garden centre!

I just received two roses from for love of roses. I have two more on the way with only a space for one of the four. What the heck was I thinking? How can I sneak in three more pots + soil without anybody noticing?

@jim - yes they hitched a ride. It happens everytime I go near a garden centre!

LOL Halloblondie...

@kristine - squeeze them in the garden where ever you can. Then next spring, expand your garden beds & move them, stating that you didn't realize how quick they grow & that they need more space!

Sadly, I have done this. It does work. I'm doing it again next spring too! Since I bought twice as much as I was going to. I sense a pattern here!

@halloblondie – The others I got ( I will post pictures tomorrow)
, POAK, Munstaed wood ,BOSCOBEL and Brother Cadfael .Abe Darby is amazing lotsa buds and blooms
right now ,I will take a picture tomorrow and post its a definite must
have !!!

@rosecrazy - where did you get them from? I wanted all of those ones!!! Please post photos.

thanks for the advice Blondie you bet I'm going to just squeeze them in wherever I can a my husband is really clueless as to how many roses I have he knows enough to not even ask. It's funny the only rose that he even pays attention to is Ingrid bergman. I have two and those are the only ones he ever even looks a, there are Thirty others all staring him in the face but he only looks at his sweetheart Ingrid Bergman LOL

That's funny! My husband acts like my gardening is too much for him & he doesn't care. This week I caught him walking around the garden snapping photos with his phone. Apparently him & a coworker are comparing their yards! The best part is he acts like it's his hardwork that has made it look like that, haha! I guess in a way, since he paid for it all, except the free labour, me!!!

Ha ha

Fishermans friend

Fishermans friend

oops sorry double posted above, I have no idea how to delete that

Here are DAs once I got hem home..Honestly they look best whne they were in the green Pots now they just horrid in the ground I don't know what I did wrong

MW,Boscobel and Benjamin Britten and I had two on the side but you can't really see them in the first picture

I got all of them at Garden Gallery in Brampton .They had the following from what I remember - Bishops castle,generous Gardner ,heath cliff ,Jubilee celebration ,Alnwick rose , CPM ,Charlotte , young lycidias ,Malvern hills ,Carding mills ,Harlow carr ,Pat Austin, lady of Shallot . I wish they had Jude the obscure I would have definitely got it

Here same pics from the nursery I just realise i really take BAD pictures

I was also interested in young lycidias, heathcliff, boscobel & los. Next year I'm driving too all of the garden galleries! Why can't they have the same ones everywhere.

As for your roses after being planted, they are probably in transplant shock. We just had the heat wave last week. I'm also noticing bs here and there too, with all the rain we've had. I'm sure they will clear up & put on growth. Your eden does look good. I picked up one this year to try. Since everyone on this forum has talked about it. So far it has a ton of blooms, but it doesn't show the pink to white like yours does. Did it take time to see the colouring?

I don't think the colouring changes really its been the same for me but I have never seen as healthy and producing so many blooms as it did this year..must be the kelp and alfafa..I don't know whether I mentioned this before but you were the one who told me about garden gallery..thanks again

I was overwhelmed with the amount they(garden gallery) had a good variety of DA's that I have ever seen here in Ontario.

I am really trying not to read this post to avoid tempations but I can't resist. Beautiful collection! I think due to the amount of rain we've got, the Austins love it. Most of my austins are robust with flowers and very tall too. I didn't prune at all this spring. Will post some pics later.