They're verrrrry nice plants, and the same quality I've received. I love ARE.

John

They send beautiful plants.

California must have stricter laws about hitchhiking bugs and diseases, not surprising since they grow so many food crops, so mine arrive as naked as a jaybird, every leaf carefully stripped off. Fortunately, it doesn't take long for new ones to grow in. I just planted my latest acquisition from them, General Schablikine, a tea rose, yesterday. In my poor soil and fierce radiant heat, the larger the rose to start out with the better, although the little guys do catch up sooner or later.

'Wow!' is right! Those aree beautiful. I can't wait for mine to come in May. Unfortunately, they emailed me that I couldn't have GdF after all, so please enjoy yours for me. : ) Maybe next year if I don't get one from someone before.

Vap, I will surely put an extra care into GdF for you too :-) Sorry you didn't get it this year. If you place an early order, I'm sure you should get GdF next year. I didn't have much luck with Ispahan for a couple of years and eventually got it. Some roses go quickly probably because they don't grow as many of those varieties.

I love ARE. I am trying not to look at any nursery at the moment until all my roses are taken care of. So tempting to order for more. Temptations is evil....lol

Enjoy your roses , they look so beautiful. They look so strong and tons of leaves. Wow !

Jin

They look very healthy! I’m glad I finally decided to order from them last year. I’m looking forward to the arrival of this year’s order in a few weeks. I noticed you have Louise Odier. I don’t have that one, but think it is one of the most beautiful roses I’ve ever seen. They are all good selections. Enjoy!

Those are so great! I have only ordered from them a few times but got healthy happy big roses!

I agree Jin, evil evil evil lol! Here in FL we already got most of our mail order roses. So now we have to chill awhile on the ordering...ok try to chill lol, its really hard. I still have 3 coming though.

I have been trying to focus on growing rose companions from seed to keep from buying more expensive plants and roses.

don't you just love their packaging everything is just so safely sent

I'm jealous! Here in Arizona we are in the same situation as Ingrid, they come so bare... even though they do leaf out pretty quick and nicely but I just can't imagine how incredible that would be if they still had their leaves on! I love ARE and I love their plants! too bad I don;t have more room for more roses... yet... Enjoy yours, Vesfl!

ARE sends defoliated, soil removed, only in January, roses to Oregon, and they still do the best!

Agree, Sheila, their roses do the best no matter what. I feel lucky now that at least mine arrive in pots all year round... even though my best time is fall shipment.

Really healthy and lovely! Are you planting down there already? My roses aren't coming up till May.

Karen, I usually let them sit in their pots for awhile before planting. Long ago I read somewhere, it could have been Beales, about the need to "heal" newly bought roses in pots before planting them in the ground. Since I am in a completely different climate than ARE and most other rose suppliers, then I follow that advice and keep them in pots for a month or two, both inside and outside, depending on the temps. The larger ones I also repot. This year I ordered them earlier because of the travel plans later in May and need to plant them earlier this year.

Sara-Ann, if you are reading this and like Louise Odier, just check when Lisa Adams posts the photos of her LO. It's a constant bloomer for her and looks glorious.

Kristine, you are absolutely right about the packaging. I think ARE perfected it. It takes only two simple moves to get rose pots out and with hardly any risk of damaging them.

Natasha, I know about the quarantine requirements for some states but if the plants are healthy they should quickly bounce back.

Wishing you all good luck with your rose orders! (I still have one more order from a different vendor to arrive)

Lisa just put her thread about LO, yesterday. I can't wait for her blooms and yours.

Jin

I always enjoy receiving shipments from ARE. Well packed boxes, good size plants. (My husband can tell when I've unboxed them on the front porch, as there are soil crumblies that get left behind. LOL)

I especially like when they arrive with a bloom or two, but it seems like many times they have the foliage removed, which is fine.

I think you'll like La Reine and Louise Odier!

Krista, indeed, we have the same experience. I've just seen on your GW page that you also have La Reine and Louise Odier. That is a very impressive list of reblooming roses you grow in our zone 5. How large do La Reine and LO get for you?

La Reine is 3-4 feet tall, and Louise Odier is about 4 feet tall.

I'm sorry, I just realized that the pic below is Anna de Diesbach, I do have pics of La Reine and will look them up...

Anna de Diesbach (not La Reine)

Louise Odier

Krista, thank you, that's really good to know. Yours are so beautiful! Gorgeous.

Your La Reine is stunning. Can't wait to grow it. And it was good to see Anna de Diesbach, also quite beautiful.

Thank you, Vesfl. It's a hardy, wonderful Hybrid Perpetual. Blooms are larger in June than the repeat bloom later on in summer.

Your roses are gorgeous, Krista. Are you doing anything special for your Hybrid Perpetuals? I keep trying them here, but they don't seem to like me very much.

Thank you, Karen. I grow them as I do the Austins, with organic topdressings such as humus, ground bark and mulch. These keep the soil friable. I also use organic fertilizers and very sparingly the David Austin Rose Food. (Less than two bags per year of the Austin Rose Food, even with over 100 roses...)

I don't spray, and the Hybrid Perpetuals defoliate in the summer.