Yay!!!! So exciting!

Wow! It's so great seeing all these roses becoming available! Kudos to everyone that contributed stock and especially to those buying them! : )) Looking forward to pictures! : ))

Exciting news

Which ones did you get ? How exciting!!

So exciting...good to know it's starting!!!!

Kimberly:

Today is Sunday. Are these roses that shipped ( left Palatine) last Monday?

I ask because I thought they (Palatine) ship roses on Mondays. I do realize transit time to west coast is longer than to east coast here, where they generally arrive on Wednesday ( 2 days after shipping).

Unclear from your post if the special Austin roses adhere to a different schedule (as they are special). You implied (though did not state explicitly) that you just received tracking info.

Mine are arriving tomorrow too! Rifis these were a special batch of increasingly rarer DA roses that they had very limited quantities of and were sold separately from their regular roses. I got CHARLOTTE, TRADESCANT, ENGLISH GARDENS, THE PRINCE, GEOFF HAMILTON and SYMPHONY. Missed out on a couple I really wanted because they sold out like within minutes of being listed! One was LILAC ROSE.

Lilyfinch, I was lucky enough to get several of them. I have English Garden, Charles Austin, Perdita, and William Morris coming.

rifis Yes, these were shipped out from Palatine Monday, so it has taken a week to get to me!

Kimberly Sounds like you have some good ones coming. I have a friend that grows Perdita and it is so beautiful.

Beth, The Prince and Tradescant are two that I would love to have.

How is the replacement of your roses going?

Have you seen all of Dave Bang's new roses? What a genius with his creations.

My Palatine roses arrived on Friday. I got Claire Rose Austin from the ’rare Austin’ collection, Augusta Louise for me and a few friends, plus Deelish. As always, fresh plants with big roots!

My Hortico plants arrive today!

Kristine, I'm having fun replacing my roses. Of course I cannot and likely will not replace all or as many as I lost! It was getting to be too much before the fire! But I'm thankfully finding all sorts of ways to replace many of my very rare roses. THE PRINCE and TRADESCANT were a couple of my rarer DAs. Did not think I'd be able to find TRADESCANT at all, so am happy to get it from Palatine! If you guys are looking for more rare DAs and other rare roses, contact Peter Schneider at Freedom Gardens. He has a list of his current roses, which he only ships once a yr in the fall. But he also has a plethora of rare roses that he will propagate for the following yr. I already have 5 on order for Fall 2021, and 6 coming this fall! He appears to be the only one to carry THE ENDEAVOUR anymore, which I grabbed the last one for this season. He also has BIBI MAIZOON, JAYNE AUSTIN and a bunch of others. He had DAME JUDY DENCH, which I wish I had grabbed, but she sold out fast!

Freedom Gardens

Jen,

Hahahaha! Too funny.

Ben, the rose god has been good to you. You got Chandos Beauty, Augusta Luise, and Clair Rose... lol. Helen

Helen, seriously, I got everything on my ultimate wish list! Only downside is I feel there is no more challenge left in life, lol!

Ben, here is your new challenge: Juliet (DA wedding rose), Rainy Blue, Miyabi (Japanese roses)... lol. Helen

No, Helen, that’s *your* challenge, along with the entire Dave Bang collection, unnamed seedlings included. Some of us face more difficulty, life is not fair, but I’m cheering you on!

My challenge is not all but most of Dave Bang's catalog

Love love love his roses

My Palatine DAs arrived this morning, and are soaking. They are a LOT smaller than the usual Palatine monsters, but look good!

Kristine, K&M Roses will be introducing Dave Bang's roses this summer or fall, not sure when exactly!! Dave sent a lot to For Love of Roses a few yrs ago, but they recently closed up and are in foreclosure right now, so DO NOT TRY ORDERING FROM THEM... you will not get your roses or your money back! A lot of people have lost out on roses and their money! It's a sad situation. But Jim at K&M Roses has already been busy grafting and rooting Dave's roses. He's going to be inundated with orders, so It will be awhile probably before all of us can get them!! Gonna be fun in the pursuit tho!!

My roses arrived today, and though I was prepared for smaller roses, thinking this is the first batch of the rare lot, I was very pleasantly surprised at their size. Each one has canes over 14 inches and very healthy roots. I couldn't be happier :-))

Wow, Beth. How did you hear about ForLoveOfRoses foreclosure situation? No wonder every time I texted Richard about my orders, he kept delaying them by giving me different reasons. I wished he had told me about the situation instead of doing that. Helen

Helen I frequent the Rose Chat Group on Facebook, and there's been a lot of discussion on there about it. Richard has been defrauding people and organizations for sometime apparently. It's sad. I'm one of the lucky ones. I managed to get the last two orders I placed with him, altho it took quite some time to get them.

Thanks Beth. I just checked his website and it still accepts orders. This is so wrong. It’s one thing if he could not fulfill rose orders because of unfortunate situations, it’s a totally different thing when he continue tries to defraud rose growers. Helen

I am getting my first shipment from Palatine this season, both their regular roses and some old Austins.

I have heard so much about the size of their plants-can’t wait to see them!

I am so sad about For Love of roses

I have gotten some lovely roses from them but the last year I would try to order Dave Bang roses and other roses in the same order and never got any of it. I don't think that I got charged though

Beth I am so excited that Dave's roses will be at K&M. The biggest dilemma, which ones to choose?