Try entering PEGASUS when ordering in the states. It might work.

@MiGreenThumb (Z5b S.Michigan/Sunset 41) Elevation: 1091 feet

Yes! And it's not just UK, it also works on DA's EU website too!

I just received the email from them with the same code.

Well, I tried putting several roses in my basket and then using the code at checkout. No go. Evidently it isn't meant for those of us in the USA. It's ok. I already ordered for this spring and they arrived several weeks ago, and all of them are starting to show new growth, so I'm content. Maybe there's hope for a discount code for next year? And if not, I'll probably order some anyway because it's still far cheaper than ordering from Heirloom. Their DA roses are $60 each., while David Austin sells them for $32.

I tried "PEGASUS"; unfortunately didn't work in the States.

@dianela7bnorthal I do not sound "so upset". It has nothing to do with "required" because no business is "required" to do do anything but suck up a much revenue as possible.

It has to do with their shady, nasty business practices against other nurseries, their planned obsolescence, their denial of the US as having multiples climate zones, and the sandbagging and excuses I've seen people on the forum make justifying the actions taken by David Austin Roses.

For two years, COVID was blamed. Okay, fine. But a third year when the rest of the world gets the code again and we don't? I'm calling out those that defended the decisions and actions taken. I say I smelt something fishy the whole time.

It's like VW- in Europe, they have a wide color palette with over 20 choices and what do we get here in the States? Five shades of grey, one red, and a blue or two.

It has to do with a lack of choice and what is supposedly one of the largest markets in the world that's being treated more like a third world afterthought. The US is more of a "leftover" dumping ground it seems.

I understand some people would never be able to understand those things or why it can be perceived as a reasonable irritant. These are the same types that would accept anything they're told, even if it was a lie. Justification is as powerful as denial.

Steven

Steven, have you ever heard of the malady called "entitlement mentality"? I honestly think you may have a touch of it.
So VW is manufactured in Europe and they offer 20 color choices on their home turf and only a handful of colors here in the USA. So David Austin breeds roses in England and offers discounts to those in the UK, but not to us here in the USA. Are we citizens of the USA then deprived? There is no need to justify or condemn. I am not personally responsible for the integrity of other's business practices, or lack thereof. I have a hunch that corruption exists on pretty much all levels and in all countries of the world. Corruption anywhere is deplorable. Nevertheless, I have lived in other countries in my lifetime and have traveled overseas and I don't see that Americans are a deprived people except in our own imaginations. We are blessed with so much and have so many reasons to rejoice and so little cause to complain!

Hi @MiGreenThumb (Z5b S.Michigan/Sunset 41) Elevation: 1091 feet

I really wish DA Europe would sell own-root roses. Unfortunately that's something they only do for the US market. On their EU and even on the UK one, there's no way to buy own-root.

I am surprised when you say they deny US climate zones, because I have to go to the DA US website to find a filter to list their roses by climate zone. On the EU site there is no way to filter for that, even though we certainly have multiple climate zones in Europe. So I had to use the US site to find "roses for zone 10-11". But maybe you meant something else by that and I may have misunderstood.

Well... I guess none of that has anything to do with the discount code issue, but just so you know it works both ways, and there are some things DA makes available to the US and not to the EU.

@judijunebug It has nothing to do with entitlement and everything to do with a "global market", and that should make products reasonably available in equality and availability to anyone from Australia to South Africa to Canada to the UK.

Especially something like the paint colour on a car. Easily done when they're made in the same line, but you're probably unaware of that.

I'm very disappointed you're taking a Redditor style approach in interacting with me, and that has no place in a forum like this. Your statements, though I do appreciate the acknowledgement of corruption, make it sound like people that would support a regime of oppression but tell people they should be thankful for moisture of any kind when it's urine raining upon one's head. 

Besides, who are you to tell anyone what they want or need? How upsetting!

"You should be happy you get anything" is all I gather from you.

I'm interested in pursuing more. Pursuing better. Moving up. Improving the world. Resisting group think. Whether you're against me for that or with me is irrelevant and your support isn't required. I'm an independent thinker and acter.

Step off your pedestal please!

Steven

Also- some of my points have to do with other discussions and facts on this forum from the past.

There are those who've been here longer than I, but I've been here on this forum over 11 years. Some of you are commenting like you know more background knowledge when you really don't. There are discussions I'm referencing you have no idea about and it shows.

Steven

I'm sorry for upsetting you, Steven. Perhaps I could have found a kinder way of letting you know that I find your outlook and attitude disturbing. I have never been the world's most tactful person, and at 45 years old, am not likely to become such. However, one is never too old to learn gracious interaction with others. I apologize for my ungraciousness, Steven.