I suddenly soooooooooo....want to move to East Texas. Nothing happening here (Central VA) but waiting for the first frost.

Woah, what an amazing group of roses for Wally World! I’m going to check out my local Walmart , too. I’ve seen Cream Veranda at our local rose garden , it looks fantastic.

Forgot - there was a Passionate Kisses., some huge Heirlooms [just bought one from trailer sale in Tyler, tempted to pick up another at this cheap price!] - there were a bunch of small flowered reds, a few Queen Elizabeth, a Brandy [small plant unlike the rest], Montezuma. I am going back tomorrow so will rummage thru them to see what else might be hiding in this huge bunch of roses! Have never seen Wally with this many different varieties with a price like this!

This sounds like a dream. It was 85 degrees here today, 34 now and down to 14 degrees by tomorrow night. My full bloom roses are all going to be icicles by tomorrow. Our stores are all out of plants for the year, and I’ve never seen any selection like that at Walmart. Even in the peak of summer! I’d love to see some pictures! Great finds!

Not Fair!!!! : D

Am still in awe! Going back tomorrow, will take photos. Hope Wally doesnt realize their mistake and reprice them higher!

Vap, I'm with you. SO not fair! They're apparently not having snow storms in east Texas.

Walmart in north Chicago suburb is fixated on purple color. One spring it was Intrigue for $10 per pot, lowered to $5 in August. Next spring it was Lavender Crush (climber), plus a super-fragrant red-climber (small blooms with yellow stamens but I can smell it 4 feet away). Then it's Angel Face in pots. This spring 2019 it was Mirandy Lambert rose, foliage is glossy and so perfect, blooms are large purple (4" across), with at least 7 blooms per bush, with old rose & perfume scent (grafted-on-Dr.Huey, watered with our pH 9 tap). Each plant was loaded with large blooms, but the bloom is loose & not perfect like Stephen Big Purple (which I have). Mirandy Lambert is a flashy & showy rose that one can see far away (true purple color). If I don't have Stephen Big Purple I would buy Mirandy Lambert. It's the best looking foliage I have seen, compared to the hundreds of varieties in 3 large rose-parks that I visited. The leaves are so perfect that they look like plastic. Good rose for a flashy show. The only rose that impress me equally well in looks is Distant Drums (stinky scent).

Which local rose nursery is that BenT ? Dallas only has Nic Hardie and they only have in spring.

Wow...I'm in Hoiston, our Walmart had closed down the whole garden section in summer...will run down there at lunch and see if they have anything. Calling them is an adventure I'm not up to today!

Our Walmart never had a selection like that even when they were selling roses. I went to find some preen the other day everything was gone, close down,and locked filled with Christmas trees. so sad , you guys are so lucky

Kristine, Same here. I dont recollect anything other than knockouts. But will check it out in a few hours just to make sure. I dont have space for random purchases, but i can window shop:)

Austin,

Judith is referring to the Certified Roses Trailer Sale in Tyler Texas, that occurs in the June/July timeframe. I always count on her to post when the sale is under way. You can get some beautifully grown big bushes for $5.50 -8.00 , sold in trailer beds outside their office. The plants are so great and cheap, it almost feels like rosebush robbery, lol.

Actual plants that friends and I got : Medallion, Maurice Utrillo, Lavender Crush, Savannah, Plum Perfect, Ring of Fire (you can see several of the Painter Series for sale behind Ring of Fire):

I do go to North Haven on rose day, I try to buy at least one plant from them each year to support the only nursery in all of DFW that caters to rose lovers.

I wonder how many of us are going to run by our local Walmarts today to see if we happen to be as lucky as alameda???

My walmart had the garden area used as storage towards the end of summer. They reopened it a couple weeks ago but they did not have any roses. a couple years ago they had sunsprite And miss all American beauty, but since then they have stopped carriying most roses other than the flower carpet roses.

BenT pop over to My Texas Rose Garden Ext... and see my question for you. I have not got this Houzz worked out on posting yet and I seem to do way to much of it...

You will understand with my post :)

Nic Hardie on Lovers has great roses in spring/ I buy from North Haven also but NHardie better plants and closer for me... don't like the NicH managers much however, heard obviously wrong advice given with much authority. Hate that

FYI: Chamblee just told me they would ship 3 gal plant in case others are interesting in size.

The Rose Glutton had to go back to the trough again today.......I brought home 7 more - for total price of $45 and change! In big pots, healthy! I will post photos tomorrow, got home after dark. Some roses they just had one of. I got the Montezuma - love the color, saw one in a friend's garden. I got 2 White Meillands for 2 large pots, another Polka, a Cl. Crimson Sky, Passionate Kisses and Cherry Frost. It was hard to pass up Heirloom, but I have one. There was Easter Basket, but am not too impressed with it. There was one of each of Laguna, Summer Romance, Brandy, Sun Flare. Lots of Fruity Petals, which I really like, and Ruby Meilland, a small flowered red. May have to go get another. If they were $10-15, that would be another matter, but $5.97? How can I not??? Lowe's got some in but the only one I was interested in was Soul Sister and I have one of those. Dont know what Home Depot has, but the one in my town doesnt seem to be into roses - body bags and Knockouts. But Wally really hit a home run this time!

My Walmart has potted mums and scarily perfectly round pumpkins. That's it.

Lol Nadya! There is probably something wrong with me that I can hate a plant, but I actively hate those perfectly round and symmetrical mums.

Eta: nothing in my WM, not even those rounded mums.

I went to mine to get more rosetone, and all they had was those round mums...like thousands of mums. Every shelf was full of dome-headed mums. It was very bizarre. :-)