Witchygirl - it's for the best. If it doesn't make it after you cut it off...trust me, it wouldn't have lived anyway.

Totoro - I'll be interested in how your Royal Jubilee is. :)

Kristine - MOP was too short of a plant for me...no fragrance...I gave it away. But it was really, really floriferous!

I think I have a place on the deck for it

I can' smell anything anyway lol

Kristine - sounds perfect then. :)

Carol

I have a want rose. A super want rose. Nr. 130 http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.306587

That's gorgeous Witchygirrl! Love those oddball colored ones. Doubt it will ever get over here in the US tho...

Witchygirl Mr 130, what a stunner!!!

Very pleased with the beautiful packaging, healthy plants from high country and chamblees.

Let the fun begin.

I just got a message from for love of roses and my Memphis music is on the way with a coupon for a free rose. What to choose, what to choose?

@Kristine striking colors on MM. I picked Belinda's dream, savannah, lady Ashe, poseidon and perle d'or from chamblees. Then Paul Neyron, abraham darby, Reine de violette, madame hardy from high country roses!

Purilisa , those look beautiful!! I have lady Ashe coming as well. Well I think I do , they haven't given me a shipping estimate and they were supposed to ship soon! Please share photos when the buds open ! :)

LilyFinch, are you getting yours from Chamblees as well? If my cats don't eat the bud up, I would be very happy to share the photo:)

So exciting to finally get our orders, especially when they have blooms already.

Yes! I have lady Ashe , pink Don Juan , cream veranda and pink enchanted coming, I'm excited for them. I also have a high country order, but only remember a couple and I called it in so no invoice to remind me. It'll be a happy surprise! Lol

@LilyFinch all of the roses in your order have excellent reviews. I have pink enchantment coming from freshgardenliving via etsy.:)

@Kristine Thank you! Yes very very excited. You have some amazing roses in your collection! Love the photo of tournament of roses.

Thank you Purillisa, the Tournament of Roses was here when we moved In. Honestly, by its catalogue pictures, I would never have chosen that rose. Boy, would I have missed out. It blooms in huge clusters, non stop. It is a great rose for sure.

So, we hired a house painter yesterday, Yay! But, they can' t paint the house until May 5th, boo. So all of my roses that are coming for the front yard will have to be potted up until all of the big men in their clumpy work boots are done.

So excited for my exterior remodel and new landscape. The only thing in their way is one Julia Child. They better not stomp on her

Purilisa: You'll want to cut the cane with the black on it off, otherwise it may spread all the way down and cause more dieback. Also, remove any dead leaves and give them a small dose of liquid fertilizer (at half the dilution rate, meaning 2x more water than the recommended amount) every 5-7 days for a month. it will help them bounce back quicker. Good luck. they do look rough, but I guess it depends what you paid for them. Sometimes if its a variety no one else has, you have to deal with these types of shipments, however they look pretty pathetic to me and I would be disappointed with them. Good luck.

I ordered a bunch of roses, most of which I have absolutely no room for!

From Edmunds:

Sweet Mademoiselle

Princess Charlene De Monaco

Deelish

Bolero

From D.A.:

James Gallway

The Generous Gardener

Charles Darwin

Huntington Rose

Princess Anne

Lady Emma Hamilton

Charles Rene Macintosh

From ARE:

Pioneer Spirit

Mar y terrien

Star of the Republic

From K&M: (on fortuniana)

Another Pat Austin

Another Wedding Bells

2x Spirit of Freedom

Queen of Sweden

The Endevour

All of these from K&M are excellent performers here and duplicates of roses I already grow. QoS is the only exception, the ones I have grown own root and on Dr. H never bloomed well for me so I thought I'd try it on Fort. I hope I have better luck with blooms because otherwise its a healthy rose.

I also have Yves Piaget coming from RU.

We live in a tiny home so I grow roses in containers (15 gallon root pouch grow bags). This year, I got:

Chamblees:

Koko Loko

DA:

Munstead Wood (to replace one left at our old house)

Edmunds:

Earth Angel

Princess Charlene de Monaco

I hope they do well! My pre-existing roses are First Crush, Summer Romance, Bolero, Irish Hope, Cream Veranda, Ebb Tide, and Jude the Obscure. I also lust for Evelyn, Abe Darby, and lots of others!

Windwalker, there is a lot of Rose lust happening here

@SoFl OMG that is a droolworthy order. I love Yves piaget. I will now go check k&m out.

@Windwalker Planted First crush last fall. It was a lucky find for me Lowes was clearing out their 2 gallon roses. It's like winning a lottery;) How do you like it? I should see its flowers this season, is it fragrant for you? Earth Angel and Munstead Wood are on my list for a future order:)

It is Kristine!

Purilisa, I have not seen it flower but I am being patient because I heard it takes a while. I totally neglected it last year (went out of town for a month and the person supposed to take care of them didn't), but it is growing a ton.

I'm excited about EA and MW. I had MW 2 years ago and I didn't give it great conditions (was just getting started) but it performed beautifully.

Also, if anyone is interested I just saw several Meilland's roses like Bolero and Frances Meilland in bodybags at Home Depot the other day, as well as Just Joey. I know body bags get a bad rap (I've never grown one), but these looked very healthy and were just $6.98.

Oh Wow! That's an awesome price for a Francis Meilland and Bolero. I gotta get me a few FM. Thanks for posting this info.

Thank you Windwaker!! I will check out HomeDepot, so far ours don't have any bodybags as of last week. We've been having crummy winter weather. Hopeful, spring will soon chase winter away. My first crush has survived frost and below freezing weather this year. Found a lemon fizz(kordes) also part of clearance from Lowes. Bolero already ordered from Etsy(fresh garden living). Yves Piaget, I see it at Burlington. Who has some amazing collection, I still haven't gone through the entire list. If anyone want's the list, I can post the updated one here.

I told myself that I was not going to order any this year (we may build in the country) but mercy, I sure want Evelyn! I got several roses from Chamblees one year. They all did well, but did not seem to take off as fast. (they were tiny sticks) This will be their 3rd year, so I am expecting great things. It was probably my fault....I planted them out sooner than I should have....lol...patience is not my strong suit! Sharifa stayed so tiny, but actually seemed to kick in this past fall. Nahema was the same. She grew two really long canes, bloomed some and blah. I think she is gonna go this year!! I can't wait!

Rosecanadian Belinda's Dream is wonderful! Mine wafts....I think she needs a few years to get established, then lookout! I gave her a hard cut this year to build her back up at the base. My son's lab ran thru her and plowed out the middle! lol She is a blooming machine at my house and I would not be without her. I got Spice last fall and that rose is gonna be something! She bloomed all winter in my unheated hoop house. She is covered in buds now. I put her in the ground a few weeks ago. She was pot bound in a 3 gal, just since the fall!!! Now, that is my kinda rose!!

Gagalzone8 - Okay...she stays!! I was going to gift her to a friend...but I'm sticking with Belinda's Dream!! :) She sounds like a wonderfuly rose - strong, beautiful, gorgeous, fragrant and floriferous!! What's not to love!!

Carol

Brecks selling rainbow of roses 5 for $25. Bareroots. I read in the comment that one of them is tuscan sun. purple looks like ebb n tide. not sure what variet red, pink and yellow are..

@gagalzone...I had read many good reviews on Nahema and sharif asma. I don't know if it's the plant or quality of the parent plant from which it is propogated that affects plant vigor.

I’m so excited... this is the first full year I’ve been growing roses and... I feel like a kid waiting for her birthday! The snow is almost gone... I’m waiting for roses I ordered in the dark days of winter. I don’t have tons of space so I couldn’t order so many — I love these long lists of roses though! I did order Gloire de Dijon, Nathalie Nypels, Ballerina, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Graham Thomas, and the Apothecary rose.

You ordered some classic Natalie. Please be sure to post photos of their progress. It's almost exactly 2 years since I ordered my first roses and it only gets more thrilling! I'm definitely still in acquisition mode. LOL!

Excellent order Natalie! Where did you order your roses from?

Hi purilisa! I ended up ordering most from High Country Roses, but my husband ordered the Apothecary Rose and Graham Thomas from David Austin Roses. Gloire de Dijon arrived this week — I’m super excited — but Souvenir and Ballerina haven’t shown up yet even though they were supposed to.

Vaporvac I will definitely post photos! I’m looking forward to seeing pics of your roses too! :-)

Hi Natalie! What an amazing list of roses. I have been eying the Gloire for a while now. Please keep us posted on how she does..were you planning on planting her outside or potting?

newest finds at Aldi

Rosie the Riveter? That's a great find - it's newer than you usually ever find in body bags!

Menard's had Rosie in a bag and also in a pot, in case you're not near an Aldi's. My Aldi's hasn't had any roses in yet.

@vaporvac, Aldi probably gets roses by the zone. Since we only got ours now after all the wintry crazy weather. zone 6 might be next.

@act91 Thank you, love orange blends but couldn't find many reviews on the riveter. Also, this is the only one from weeks roses, the rest of Aldi's were from Gardenline. Can't wait for her to bloom. Most of the bare root that i planted only 2 weeks ago are sporting buds-broadway, tournament of roses and charisma

rosecanadian, you may have already seen the pictures I shared before, but here we go again! I love Belinda because she smells dreamy, tough as nails, in constant bloom and one of my first roses! (my mom purchased her for me, along with a few others) The other thing is that she has so many different "faces". Classy, upright buds that turn into the most glorious blowsy blooms! I can cut flowers and they seem to last forever in the vase...scents the whole room. I have seen many post that she is not that fragrant for them..but not the case in my humid, hot climate. She is a rose that I will always have..

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gagalzone, Love your pics! What a beautful rose!! And now I have a good idea where I want to plant it. Thank you!!

Gagal - oh that is beyond beautiful!!! Such a graceful bush!! And the flowers are sooooo lovely!!! Thank you!! Drool!

Carol

I cut her way back this year. First hard prune. I am getting lots of new growth and she is covered with buds!!

Well, it was a great idea!! :)

Carol

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Mother of Pearl- Scrumptious rose, large and densely petalled

My garden- Sugar Moon(like looking at the full moon, bright white), amazing fragrance, continously blooming, came through the winter without any dieback(not protected). Very impressed with it. Got it from Roses Unlimited fall sale 2017. Thank you RU.

My garden-Princess Margareta from RU also. David Austin. She's gorgeous and doing well. Own root as well. Lots of blooms for her first year, she was planted last fall.

Here's more Lewis Botanical garden with roses that I fell in love with and would love to have

Kordes-Leibeszauber-probably misspelled. Flowers are easily 5 inches and the small bush was loaded with these blooms. very very attractive bloom. My photo does not capture the beauty of the rose adequately. Thought this was a great bush for smaller areas.

David Austin-Othello, very full cup shaped bloom

Abe Darby

Purilisa - So many gorgeous roses!!! I especially love Othello!!!

Carol

Oh they certainly were Carol! I am going back for a second look see:)