My experience with buying roses online
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Comments (25)I can find stuff there that is not available in other places. Well, it is true if you look at their website. Alas, the reality is different. Not once when I ordered from Hortico they shipped the roses in one shipment as they promised to. They always tend to have crop failure or some other excuse. This year they did it again. Around the end of October they had everything I ordered and all roses should be shipped after mid-November - they said. At the end of November it turned out that they didn't have the roses that they were supposed to ship. Maybe just maybe in January they will have them... Crop failure etc. can happen to every nursery but it cannot happen every given year. To sum it up, Hortico is not dependable at all. Palatine and Pickering are very reliable, and the quality of their plants are far better than Hortico ever was....See MoreBest place to buy Damask roses online
Comments (5)...are you in the U.K...? most of us here prefer Trevor White Roses, then there's Peter Beales or David Austin.... among a host of others.... ..here's a link to Trevor White's where they have both those roses listed... Autumn Damask is 'Quatre Saisons'....Damask roses ..I grow 'Jacques Cartier' which repeats flower rather well, and nicely scented......See MorePot sizes for hybrid tea roses and where to buy online
Comments (5)I've been growing roses solely in pots for about 3-4 years now. Being in Australia, I don't have much advice on cheap pots, but I would second Nik's advice that bigger is better. I mostly start mine off in the smaller sizes, then go as big as I can get, depending on the rose and how fast it grows- the biggest pots in use at the moment are about 45 cm (about 18 in, but they sell them by diameter not gallon size here), I'm long overdue for another upsize on quite a few of my roses. Haha and I already have a shed full of smaller sized pots... When ever I pot up, I'm rewarded by an extra flush of growth- they're a lot happier. Not sure of your weather patterns, but I've noticed that during our hot spells, the black pots (especially ones in direct sun) soak up the heat - they are sometimes almost uncomfortably hot to the touch - which cant be good for them. I'm trying to rotate out the black ones, inconvenient as it is, as they tend to be the most easily available and the cheapest. The smaller pots also dry out twice as fast as the large ones. The other issue is that potted roses are so much more dependent on you for all their care..that means more care with fertilizer, watering, decent soil..etc etc..and judging by the ones in my neighbours yards, they wont ever get quite as big, or floriferous, as they do in the ground. Good luck..its a learning experience....See MoreSharing my experience of buying rose bareroot from Breck's
Comments (7)QVC is a television shopping network where you get most the 'as seen on ....' stuff. And yes they sell roses at a crazy price like $15 including shipping. Sorry I should've been more detailed....See Moreoursteelers 8B PNW
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