Piano roses are widely available throughout the US as cut flowers. I've emailed Tantau multiple times asking why Tantau's roses aren't more widely available as plants. Maybe to prevent dilution of their cut flower near-monopoly? I'm sure you'd never try to root a florist rose still under patent, but if it weren't, you could easily try to root a cut rose.

I have a sneaking suspicion that's how Austin's 'Juliet' rose plant pictures are in HMF despite the patent not expiring until the mid-2020s.

Aaron I was under the impression cut roses were sprayed with some sort of growth inhibitor to prevent people from rooting them. Tho now that you mention it, I have read some posts where others have maybe successfully rooted a cut rose before. I did not realize they were widely available as cut roses, Ill keep an eye out for them at the grocery store in case I can buy some to adorn my home.

Hi @dianela7analabama--I think you'd have better luck custom ordering them from a florist. Sometimes they're easy enough to find, but grocery stores will usually just have regular long-stem HTs in my experience. Tantau is the biggest cut-flower retailer in the US--I've bought piano as a boutonniere in the past, and specialty grocery stores have been able to supply it.

Really interesting...I had no idea that Tantau was such a huge player in the cut flower business.

Aaron they certainly have lots of beautiful roses in their catalog. I specially like that they rate each rose not only as "disease resistant", they actually rate them for blackspot and other diseases individually. So a rose could be excellent, 4 stars for powdery mildew but 2 for blackspot etc. They have several 4 star rated roses in their collection for blackspot I would love to try.

Aaron - exactly!!