That’s so exciting!!! I hope more of us see it . I am sooo not supposed to be ordering or adding roses yet I’m working on my edmunds order . Shame shame . Too early here for bare roots but soon!

Sounds like a great deal, Diana! Lilyfinch, not easy to resist that free shipping from Edmunds until the 31st!

Ohhh Laveden Crush is such a prettty rose. You are a very lucky girl :). I hope everyone gets to see awesome selections locally this year.

I ordered roses from 3 companies this mont - having a plan to plant at list 2 akers with roses, so I got space and so many roses on my wish list !

This was great to find a rose on my wish list for $7 in local Walmart!

At this time I am planting a large metal gazebo we constructed with climing roses - pictures coming soon : )

Sara-Ann, I got the email from Edmund, did not look at what is eveloble yet : )

Sara Ann it’s such a good deal to get free shipping ! That’s like a free rose.

Diana I can’t wait to see your metal gazebo !! I have been looking for one, I did find one locally but it’s very expensive and not even my dream gazebo so I don’t know .. did u find yours or make it ?

I’m doing an Edmonds order also. It was all the enabling on my white rose thread. I’m in SO much trouble-I don’t think I‘m capable of stopping until garden season actually hits....

I got one too! I opened the package expecting the worst but it had nice roots and even some little white ones started. Lots of leaves already. I guess it thinks its on Florida vacation with our warmer than normal winter. Its wanting to grow gangbusters.

I also got some more Pacific Ocean Dahlia bulbs and tiger Lily bulbs since the ones I got last year looked so awesome with the roses.

Does anyone have photos of the Lav Crush blooms? Are they really lavender, or more pink? I'm trying to figure out where to put it..

I bought one too this morning. I was stunned it was available at Walmart in a body bag.

I got Lavender Crush last year from Walmart. I had to pot it up because all the rain set me back further and further getting my patio garden done. It spotted and yellowed and defoliated horribly. I figured it was going to be ditched before I even planted it but once I got it in the ground in an area that never had had roses planted it straightened out. Didn't grow much and never bloomed again but looked great. Next problem is it never went dormant. I mulched it as a first year rose. Has been green through all kinds of horrible ice, snow and single digits. This usually means it will not make it here. It may be green now, but by March it will probably be all black which usually happens when they act like this. I wouldn't call it a very lavender color , more a fuchia with blue hints maybe. Couldn't tell you about fragrance whether it does or not

as I can't smell much of anything.

My lavander crush, also from Walmart, is not doing well at all. I wonder if she will stay alive when spring arrive; the forcasted high is -13F for next Wednesda here. She did best during her first year, then getting worse and worse. Not sure if I will replace her, since I have my eyes on Violet’s pride right now.

Claire

Guess I'll have to go so Walmart this spring. Last year they had NOTHING!

Jen, I got the gazebo on EBay in the full of 2018, it is 13’ x 10’ and we added cattle panels on the sides for more rose seaport, I will make a post some time soon with pictures..

Wait, is LC a climber? It wasn't labeled that way on the body bag.

I believe it is a very tall shrub (7') that can be grown as a short climber. Cori Ann once mentioned that Certified roses listed it as a climber. I assumed it has a growth habit similar to Quicksilver as I plant to grow them together. Where were you putting yours, jc? Perhaps you could train it horizontally somewhere if you don't have any vertical space left.

I bought it to use as filler for my foundation bed. After I staked out where all the Austins would go, I still had empty space.

I don’t think this will work if it wanted to get wide. I could maybe make it work if it went tall without support.

I bought three at Walmart last year. I potted them all up and they grew well. Some of the areas that had waxed canes don't look so good now. But they all are showing new growth and two look pretty promising. It does repeat well. They were pretty purple here with whitish reverse. Very good fragrance. I put one on my picket fence.

Sorry this is such a bad picture but it's all I have. This doesn't show the whitish reverse.

Paging Ben!

Any updates on your Lavender Crush?

Hi JC

Lavender Crush grows very tall and is very vigorous. Mine sends out 10 ft canes. The canes are rather thick and stiff, so you probably could grow it as a shrub, but it'd require some judicious pruning. I think the plant grows somewhat like Don Juan...a stiffer, pillar rose type climber. Repeat is good, fragrance is great.

Thank you!

I ended up getting 2 and they are leafing out nicely now.

How wide does it get for you?

I might be able to let 1 hit 10ft but not the other- it will have to stay maybe 6ft max. We’ll see how tall they get here in 1 season.

Diane, did you ever do a post on your gazebo or am I just forgetting? How is your LC?