Vap, you will love Thomas Affleck! I just found some photos from 2012 - not my best ones, but will go thru my camera later and post as I find some. I have gotten lazy now - its a 3 hour drive, and if I want some ARE roses, I will wait til they have free shipping, but like last nite - I wanted to get a few before their prices changed Feb. 1 so I ordered Sweet Pea, Beverly, F.J. Lindheimer and Nacogcoches [I live 30 minutes from there - and remember seeing this rose and a huge pink growing under that big shed at this old run down motel. I would stop alot and try to identify these roses. I think the big pink was Queen Elizabeth. The yellow, which turned into Nacogdoches, I couldnt figure out unless it was Sunbright, a rose that stays dark yellow].

The shipping costs to PNW is high. I don't blame the sellers (they have to charge the buyer the price mandated by postal carriers). I wish postal carriers would give small businesses a break with the shipping charges. It would really help the buyer and the seller.

Hi Bella, I LOVE my AC, but I'm not sure it is going to be hardy for you in Zone 5. Mine was young during that first polar vortex winter a few years ago. It died to the ground, but did come back from the roots the next spring and didn't have any issue making it through the next winter (which was also very cold for us down here, but nothing like a Zone 5 winter). I liked it so much that I got another for a pot, but that one didn't make it through the first winter outside in the large pot. Are you planning to put yours in the ground or grow it in a pot that you can bring into a garage or such to overwinter? Here AC is almost a constant bloomer through the season and has a nice fragrance. It does blackspot some in our high humidity, but doesn't defoliate. So far, it has remained small, but did have to start over after dying to the ground that winter (I think that was 2014?)...so could eventually put on more size. Here are a few pictures from this year....I adore the color changes with this rose:

Ooo, you are soooo evil! Actually, the Heirloom ad hit my inbox, too. "La, la, la! I'm not listening! My eyes are closed!" Carol