I was going to post about Regan starting Oct 31st, but you beat me to it! Susan what will you order? I haven’t grown Color Magic in many years, hope they will offer it this year.

Ryan, I think that's a fine decision to wait for Otto's opening to buy their 5 gallon roses. Going there will be one of your great rose experiences! Just beware that you should bring a large vehicle, preferably with good head room :-D

Ben, I'm technically on a self-imposed rose restriction for next year. I have 13 five gallon roses bought as bare roots this spring that I need to get up-potted to their permanent homes soon. I have 23 two gallon roses that started as rootings from trading partners, or my own cuttings, or RU or Heirloom that need to go up to 5 gallons eventually. I have two coming from Wisconsin Roses in November. I have maybe 4-6 coming in November from one of my rose trading partners. The only one I'm allowing myself permission to get is Nicole Carol Miller, which @rosecanadian enabled me into this year. Turns out my local nursery has carried it for the past two years, and I'm hoping they carry it this year. A bit nervous, since Regan had it listed for last year, but not this year. But it's lineage is Sterling Silver, Charles de Gaulle, and Shocking Blue, three of my favorite roses! Regan does have Color Magic listed for this year... one of my favorite roses from way back in the day!

Susan, thank you very much for sharing. I cannot find the price on the site.

I have been looking for: firefighter, bolero, lavender crush, love song, ebb tide, twilight zone。I hope they all will be available for sale.

I love Regans and have gotten great roses from them.

Last year I ordered Rouge Royal and was excited that I finally got it but 4 months later they let me know that they couldnt fullfill my order. Not meant to get it I guess. I got Bordeaux and Gypsy Soul for my reds instead.

So, order early.

Oh no Kristine, I would not like that. waiting for months only to be told ”not available”!

I will order as soon as they open. Thanks for the headsup

I can’t remember which rose it was but I ordered from them on the first day last year, within an hour of them opening and was told I’d get all of them but then months went by and they told me that particular rose was sold out.

So just don’t have your heart set on any until they have been delivered to your house.

Forever, it looks like they don't have their prices up yet, which is kind of a bummer. To check if they will be carrying a rose, here's a link to the page. Just scroll down a bit, and there is an alpha listing. Before starting, I go above the letter A to click "all roses", so it can just flow. Then click on a rose, and it gives you the info, although unfortunately not the price yet. They also have a search box. Here's the link: https://www.regannursery.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/plants.main/whichName/genus/offset/288/alphaKey/ALL/switchAlpha/1/offset/0/index.htm

Thanks Susan so much! yeah I have checked and looks like all the roses I am interested are available. But I am worried as Kristine and outsteelers mentioned, even they are available when we place the order, they might come back months later and tell us ”sorry we are gone!”?

Forever, the only time that has happened to me recently was 3 years ago when I ordered a Delbard rose (along with 6 others) and they let me know ~6 weeks later that what they got sent from the grower wasn't big enough for them to send. Way back in the day, Regan used to carry a lot of rare European roses grown by Hortico, and occasionally they wouldn't receive them from Hortico. Hortico doesn't carry really rare roses any longer, but it's possible that Kristine's and oursteeler's experiences were related to not getting the rose from the vendor. I don't know. I do see that they no longer offer Rouge Royale.

Thanks again susan. What you said makes sense and I really hope that is the case. Can’t wait for Monday to come

Regan’s shipping calculation is very wield: $20 for the first 3 roses, $8 for each additional one plant. I ordered 7 plants with $52 shipping. If we were to split to 2 orders the shipping would be $48 in total. Doesn’t make sense to me.

I ordered too late. Top cream and raspberry cupcake are already gone. 😥😥😥

KJ, sorry to hear that. I so far got all mine. Lavender Crush is almost gone, and I got 3 (2 are for friends). I also ordered florentina foe 2 friends and it is sold now. Beverly is going fast as well.

Forever, glad to hear you got all yours. I should have ordered earlier. But I dropped my kids to school first and thought I still got plenty of time to order. It's the first day, right? Boy I am so wrong. I ordered Chantilly cream, Euphoria, and ElleElle. Don't know why Beverly is going so fast. This one seems always in stock in heirloom.

I checked early this morning in hopes of nabbing an Abe Darby, however no such luck! Somehow i ended up at ARE’s website and ordered a Star of the Republic to console myself. Oops 😅

Krystal: good you find some consolation. I jist looked all the DAs are gone. it could be they did not have them in stock for sale at the beginning.

Regan returned my message. They need to ask the developer to fix the formula of their site. They are kind enough to fix the shipping of my order.

Sometimes Regan repienishes their stock if the supplier has more. So check back in a few days if you didn’t get your favorite! It’s happened before in previous years.

I don’t think they had any Austins to start with. I placed my order at 6:15 and just out of curiousity I looked at the Austins and they had 0’s for all of them

What did you order Oursteelers?

Chantilly Cream, Lemontini, Heavenly Scented and Raspberry Cupcake

I was suspicious that they may not have had them to begin with! Awesome to see that some of you were able to grab a few of what you wanted!

Good ones Oursteelers

I can't wait to see how they do

Outsteelers: congratulations getting raspberry cupcake. Chantilly Cream is very pretty too.

Kristine, Thanks for suggestion to order early. I got myself 3 roses: Firefighter, lavender crush and twilight zone. And LCs and florentinas for 2 friends. The roses go really fast and the last two are sold out already. I initially wanted to get a couple more but decided to leave some room for local hunting next year :)

I am really looking forward to spring.

Ben: you are right. Regan must have been filling the inventory. LC was sold out the first day, now there are a few available.

Forever, you scored some really great roses. All winners.

They should all do really well for you.

There is now a note that the Austins will be stocked in Nov.

I am waffling on Forever Amber. Also have Belindas Blush and Mother of Pearl for cutting. Comments welcome.

Regan seems to re-stock the inventory continuously. I resisted to order anything on opening day, but decided to check again tonight. Raspberry cupcake was out shortly after opening day but is back in stock (only 10 left), and I could not resist the temptation and fell for another fragrant and disease resistant rose; also ordered Sweet Madame Blue. Keep checking their website, they do refill the inventory.

@oursteelers 8B PNW How is your Lemontini?

Sharon so far nothing to really report. It went into the ground in spring and was planted at the same time as and next to, Chantilly Cream.

Chantilly Cream has doubled in size and has had double the blooms as Lemontini. The blooms look quite similar to one another, so much so that when Lemontini bloomed I didn’t even take a picture because Chantilly Cream had already bloomed and I figured I already had a pic so why bother.

Perhaps it will be more of a standout with time

@oursteelers 8B PNW Thank you very much! This is great information. That says a lot for Chantilly Cream, too.

Oursteelers,

Chantilly Cream is just an all around outstanding variety for me too. I passed on Lemontini because I already had Chantilly Cream and thought it’d be almost impossible to improve on.

@oursteelers 8B PNW I tried getting Lemontini but Edmunds canceled my order, and they cancelled the ones sent to my nursery too. Is this fragrance so great as they say? Or is it as good as Chantilly Cream (that's a gorgeous, fragrant rose to be sure).

@PDXRobertZ8 yes I think the fragrance is just as good. They are just pretty similar so far, maybe ChantillyCream has more white, and since Lemontini is a slower grower there hasn’t been much to report

Bump this up. Saw that it's $24 for shipping of 2 roses now 11/5/23. What are some fragrant cut roses (yellow, purple or lavender) that last long in the vase from Regan Nursery? Thank you.

I haven't had any problem with Regan Nursery ever. Shipping to SoCal is $15 for 3 roses, each additional rose is $5. I only decided to buy from Regan this year because it offers Memorial Day.

Is it common to get the wrong rose from Regan? The one I ordered last year is definitely the wrong thing..no clue what it is but its semi double or single and the color of poached eggs. Has stayed small and not much scent at all..its fugly.

I never had one wrong rose ever. Maybe I'm just lucky. i had wrong roses from RVR.

I've never had a wrong rose from Regan either, and I've ordered a lot from them over the past 25 years. I've received two mis-labeled roses from my local nursery in the past ~5 years, both from Weeks with the Weeks tags that Weeks applied. My local nursery is like Regan, in that they get a large number of bare roots from the vendors (not already boxed or bagged or potted). Sultry, my gut would be that your rose was mis-labeled by the vendor, not Regan.

Sultry, some wring roses turn out ok, nice roee, good fragrance but yours sounds gross. Give them a call and let them know. Their customer service has always been good . I wonder ehat you ended up with ?

The way I figured out what my second mis-labeled rose was from the local nursery (purchased Jan 2021) was I went to the Weeks website and looked at every purple rose they carried that year. I was able to narrow it down to Fragrant Plum. Another tip is to look at the name of the rose you wanted... sometimes it's close alphabetically to the mis-labeled one you got. The one I wanted above was Gold Medal. One time I was at Vintage Roses' retail site, and brought up a Mount Hood. It didn't have the original tag, but it had the big row-ender stake. Gregg (the owner) told me he doubted it was Mount Hood, but I took a chance. It wasn't Mount Hood, but knowing that it was in that row eventually helped me to ID it as Monet, now an ultra-rare rose that I still have and propagate :-D

Sultry

Maybe you got Sunny Knockout? It has few petals and no scent, and about the color of poached eggs. When planted en masse it reminds me of soiled Kleenex along the highway.