Your so lucky! My Home Depot doesn't carry anything good. All the tags say something like "assorted roses 2 gallon". Lisa

Where are you located?

A big North American nursery (Pan American) has had a line of "Clean 'n Easy" roses for a few years now. They are supposed to focus on low care, disease-resistant roses. They do have a lot of Kordes roses and yes the plants do normally seem to be a nice size. They are more expensive at my local garden centre around here ($30 instead of $20 CDN). I bought a few of them last spring (Wedding Bells, Beverly, Souvenir de Baden Baden).

http://www.panamnursery.com/catalogue.html

I am in Pittsburgh. I've been pleasantly surprised at the Kordes offerings at both Home Depot and Lowes.

Yes thank you P TW Clean n Easy! The tag threw me off I walked right by them the first time. Thought it was a kind of strange name. But then I looked closer and saw Kordes in the corner.

I'm going to check tomorrow, I'd love to find a Poseidon locally

I worry about RMV with these types of roses. I also want Poseidon, but am going to wait and get it from Palatine next year. multiflora rootstock does really well for me here.

-Chris

I stopped by mine today hoping they got some in but no luck . They just have been getting a few in at time now from star roses . One called Milwaukee calatrava rose , sexy rexy and some don juans . I think down here in the south the deliverys have slowed down at least at Home Depot. What was once a full table is now only half full . Ashley I hope you get laguna ! It looks so pretty from what I've seen here!

I will check HD tomorrow! I bought 1 Souvenier de Baden Baden last weekend @ a farmers market here for $19.99. I want a grafted Beverly, have 1 small own root.

I was disappointed in Lowes and HD today. Mostly knock outs. But Lowes in Ellicott City had Kordes Solero vigorosa.

no Kordes at my Home Depot

I found 3 gal. First Crush for 5.oo on the half dead rack last night. I also got a Mr Lincoln and an Angel Face for 8.00 in 3 gal.

That's great sultry!! I got my first crush on the clearance rack as well as summer romance. Gotta love the clearance rack!

I know, I love the clearance racks. I also got a bunch of gallon sz lantanas and pink variegated grasses for .50c each, an orchid for 1.00, a 3 gallon chenille plant for a 1.00..lol

How is your First Crush doing now? Mine is in pretty bad shape right now. It got a good soak in rain water yesterday so I hope that helped.

I stuck out at Lowes and HD both for good roses, but the clearance racks at Lowes made the trip worth while. :)

Oh my goodness, what is the climbing rose in the bottom pic? I may have to run by HD and Lowes again...

I am so jealous! We only have Knockouts around here.

Sonic - it is Laguna (Sorry, a leaf got in the way and didn't notice until after I left). I was going to order it but it was awesome to see all of these in person a HD.

Thank you Dave! Laguna was the one I went out searching for a few weeks ago after seeing the original post, with no luck, so perhaps I will have to go check again. I know my local HD probably won't have it.... they never even got in the typical body bags his spring, but I'm hoping the HD in the next town over might have gotten in some new roses.

I have been seeing the Kordes Clean n Easy roses at a couple of places near me. Did not see them at Lowe's here when I checked. But I did find them at a couple of garden centres & Canadian tire. I picked up cherry lady (aka fiji), Rosanna & Poseidon. They also had a number of others - about 10 varieties I've seen. The only one I haven't seen is brothers Grimm. That's one of the ones on my wish list. But it's nice to see them available in Ontario. I prefer to buy larger potted plants than bare roots if I can.

Blondie, how much per rose at Canadian Tire? Might make a trip there if I can find a plant inspection office nearby.

Halloblondie, good to hear they're available your way, too. I went to Rural King (farm store) for something else and they had a bunch of Fiji.

Home Depot had these varieties for just under $15 here.

Grab Laguna if you're looking for a beautiful disease resistant, cane hardy rose. I have three of these and just love them! I'm hope our HD has some of these. I'd like to get the Desmond Tutu rose. Anyone grow this one?

I have 3 Laguna too, love them. Just ordered 1 Desmond Tutu from JP, not here yet.

@summers - I can't quite recall how much each one was. It was no more than $25 for a large potted one. I'm thinking around $20. They are probably already on sale too. I saw Desmond tutu at more than one place. A few other ones I can recall seeing- golden gate, summer sun, souvenir de baden baden, grande amore, sunsprite, Beverley, etc.

Ok, so the HD in my neck of the woods only had Beverly, Desmond Tutu, and a third rose, who names escapes me. They were $30. Way too expensive I thought for a HD rose, so I didn't buy it. I'll wait. Hopefully, one of the DT roses will be there. That's the only one I wanted.