:< You must have a lame nursery buyer in your area. Ours had a smattering of Austins, and some of the Kordes, with a decent number of others, but pretty well labeled.

The roses named by colour in pots had no labels or tags at all? That's ridiculous! I could see something like that at an independent market. But a national chain? That is weird. Their suppliers would/should want their brands affixed to everything. Even their flats of annuals have a stick up tag in each cell pack. That just seems to be the opposite of corporate policy. Hopefully, it's just a one off.

I'll be checking out my big box stores this week for maybe a jewel of a rose hidden amongst the common! I doubt it, but I always have to check anyways.

Sounds like my local WalMart. Their rose selection is pathetic.

I have not seen this at Lowes but I have seen it at Home Depot and Walmart here. The pots simply say "assorted pink" or "assorted red". Though sometimes those that are in a pot called "assorted yellow" have decidedly pink blooms on them and so forth.

Reminds me of years ago when my close friend was lusting after a particular orange rose and I thought that was enough info to purchase her exactly what she wanted as a gift. Funny that I thought knowing the color could narrow it down to an exact match.

Houzz won't let me edit. I meant "if it stays" small 'you know not to plant it behind a larger plant."

Lowes has a nursery buyer around here? Everytime I have ever tried to comment about the stock at any big box I get the we only sell what corporate sends us line.

Hmm, perhaps whatever is being sold wasn't properly licensed and so the solution was to leave the names off of the packaging. Or maybe an exclusivity agreement was made with the Knock out brand somehow at that particular Lowe's. Or maybe they think this is the best way to market to the people who just know they want a rose but don't care what kind. Just theorizing here. It would be interesting to see if they can be identified later on.

Some of my roses I bought at Lowes were mislabeled. I hate to find out a month later that I got the wrong rose. I also saw HD has rose label says 'assorted varieties'. I will never buy those.

I've learned to put all of my local Lowe's on the back burner regarding rose purchases. To me they are just another mass merchandiser, nothing more.

Moses

With Mother's Day coming up , I bet these will be a big seller wot or without a name. I'm sorry your lowes has been so boring!

My Lowe's had the random white rose and red roses too. I thought it was a little weird but the white roses melled amazing!

Lowes or HD always has those 'red' and 'yellow' roses. One year I bough the red and yellow. The yellow died but I still have the red. I have no idea what rose it is.

My Lowes doesn't have the colored pots but our Walmart and Home Depot does. I happened to be at Walmart yesterday and they had tons of pink, yellow, white and red pots with roses and I finally found a tag on a few of the roses. The rose in the pink pot had a tag on the actual rose, not the pot, and it said the McCartney rose, I also found one on one of the yellow pots that said Peace and one on the white one that said White Majesty. I don't know why all the roses didn't have tags but I'm glad I found them so at least I knew what the roses were. Now I'm not sure if that's what is at your Lowes but ya never know.

The Lowes in South FLorida has been getting the roses in different colored pots in flushes, all of them labeled. The big box that always pulls that no-tag stunt down here is Home Depot. They sell roses with no tags for $10, with tags for $15, and roses on Fortuniana for $20. They are of the opinion that if you want to know what you're buying you should pay more, SMH!!! Lowes and Walmarts around here see the tagged roses for $10.

Arlene, Weeks Roses and probably all of the other vendors will often sell "seconds" lots where the buyer gets a significant reduction in price for a big box of bare root roses. These are often mislabeled, if labeled at all. As seconds, licensing doesn't play a role because they no longer consider the rose a labeled rose. I've found mislabeled roses in the big box stores in the past with some interesting finds, some new introductions that year, but you have to know what you're looking for.

I'm so with you on the frustration of rose selection at Lowe's. That's why I was so excited to find Kordes w/ the Parfuma labels @ HD. It's the same thing I'd find at a nursery but for $13.

Lowe's had Julia child but the rest were just potted versions of body bag assortment and a sh*t ton of KOs. I also got the same " whatever cooperate orders". BUT I also understand that the general public doesn't know any better and the knock out craze is still in effect. I even saw bagged rose food that was "specifically" for KOs hahaha! I thought I'd seen it all.

I stopped by a different Lowes in a more affluent town down the road, which in addition to the KOs and the reds, pink and whites, had some named 20thC roses. JFK, 'Gingershap' and some others. I bought a 'Golden Masterpiece'--I have read that Boerner's masterpieces were fairly vigorous and I do like his roses--. These containers did, some of them, have names on the sides of the pots. Red Rose was 'Olympiad', Pink Rose was 'Carefree Delight' or 'Yves St. Laurent', which was blooming and quite a lovely flower, but I doubt it can survive in my yard.

Then I found a 'Mirandy' at Walmart.

Same rubbish here, with unidentified red, white and pink roses!!! I have been stalking Lowes for a few years now. The only decent rose I got from them is a Dee Lish.

Weeks is in cohort with the HDs and "independent" nurseries, selling hybrid teas that are not cold hardy here. Quite a bit of scamming going on here IMHO. Austin selling container roses in two local nurseries, labeling disease magnets like carding mill as "easy to grow" roses at 40 bucks a pop. Depressing.

Against my better judgment I went to my local Lowes in Brooklyn, so much for the NYC money belt effect (ha!), rows and rows of neglected, half dead Knockouts, and some “white”, “red”, “yellow”, “pink" and “purple” roses in non labelled pots. At least the bodybags earlier in the season had names.

Nothing has been watered in eons it seems, the soil felt bone dry, with the current heatwave it’s amazing they are only half dead. Some of the mostly dead ones were on the rescue rack for $1, I thought about it, but only for a second.