Going to make a visit to High Country Roses
Does anyone want pictures of any of their stock? This is purely a pleasure trip for me since we aren't planning to put in any new roses so I don't have anything I'm looking for. When I've done this in the past I really love looking up other people's picks because it exposes me to new roses I haven't researched myself.
It has been shockingly warm here and instead of alot of dead cane I've got lots of green cane, most still with dead leaves on them.
I looked at Fred Loads and it is green to the tips with alot of little buds. It is zone 4 so maybe, just maybe, this year it will hold on to some cane. I don't hold out alot of hope for the little buds as usually they freeze off when they start so early.
This was Fred Loads last year, June 2024.
I don't have a single photo from last year that isn't over exposed but it is really this brilliant of an orange. This growth is all from a single year since it dies to the ground each year.
I'm excited to see how big it gets if it doesn't die back to the ground. It is a zone 4 so I would love for it to put on growth year over year.
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Comments (39)Patty or anyone else. Do you happen to know when they will be back from vacation? I got a gift certificate, but had trouble using it, so he's going to put my order in for me. I asked him to write me a email to let me know when he got it done, mostly so my mind would be eased and I would know that I got my roses. This was around Dec. 27th or so. I have tried calling the last couple of days with no luck, so I figure they haven't made it back yet. I was wanting to add one if it was going to be one they put back in stock and ask a question. Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone knew when they were planning on coming back from vacation. I wish I could afford one as long, lol...See MoreKudos to Matt at High Country Roses
Comments (31)Your comment must have been fate, mmmm12, as it led me to reread the entire post and find Ingrid's comment about Quicksilver buried within it. I've been going on about this rose, but haven't bought it as I like to only get from a couple of vendors to save on shipping. I had hoped to get it from Lowe's, but they are not getting in the "good" roses at the moment as their shelves are flooded due to Covid. As luck would have it, I had already ordered a goodly number of roses from Matt so emailed to see if it was too late to add it. Please keep your fingers crossed. I may still get another grafted one from Lowe's later in the season, but would feel much better to at least have one going in this year for certain. Please keep your fingers crossed that the other roses haven't shipped!...See MoreHigh Country Roses has moved. Roses love the new location!
Comments (57)Vaporvac, I would love it if you could come. But there aren't any other rose aficionados there. I brought Oranges N Lemons and Sally Holmes last year and there weren't really any takers. The Oranges N Lemons went in the free for all at the end where you just grab whats left but I brought the Sally Holmes home. This year I didn't bring the Gourmet Popcorn I gave away because we hadn't dug it up yet. Instead I advertised it on Nextdoor so someone could research it and really want it. If I thought there would be any interest we would have made more of an effort to get it dug up. In terms of timing they are decided upon a few weeks in advance based on the schedule of the person volunteering to host. BTW, my other Oranges N Lemons I tried to propagate died over the winter in our basement but the Sally Holmes appears to have hung on. It showed a small amount of new growth this spring but is back in the basement due to bad weather. I don't yet know where I will put it if I keep it. The Oranges N Lemons in the yard showed great new growth a month ago but then got badly shredded by the hail. Right now it is looking iffy if it makes it with barely any green on it's little stub of a self. I think if it doesn't I won't replace it with another. We just have bad juju with that rose. First it gets run over with a garden cart the same day it goes in the ground, then the rooting portion dies due to neglect when my mom forgot to water the basement plants while we were on vacation. And now it gets hammered by hail....See MoreIf they let me, I may take a trip to High Country Roses this week
Comments (44)Susan, You are correct! Many roses didn't have a tag so I may have pulled it from another in the region. I was always careful to note where I pulled it from and put it back in the exact same place. So I'm thinking I pulled the wrong tag. I will take that picture down. Looking at the web site I think the one I had a picture of was Double Delight as their display is alphabetical and that would have been next to Dublin Bay....See MoreRelated Professionals
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- 29 days agolast modified: 29 days ago
Finally got to High Country Roses. I'll start with the requested pictures.
Cosmic Cloud was very healthy but definitely on the small side. No flowers yet. They did not appear to have a very large batch so I'm not surprised that it sold out so quickly.
They had a much larger group of Ball Gown Romantica.Only one flower which was getting to the end of it's life. Sorry that the picture is out of focus. I hope they aren't all like this and maybe I had a finger print on my camera lens or something.
But the group of plants looked large and healthy.I believe the field of them is from the flower on the middle of the left, all the way to where I'm standing and then back to the end of the table in the next aisle.
There actually wasn't much flowering this time. Apparently 2 weeks ago alot more were in flower so I should have either come later or earlier.Baltimore Belle plants looked really nice! Here is the larger field of them. Alas, no flowers.
Baltimore Belle tag. The light green foliage was really pretty!
There was only one bloom on the Loves Me, Loves Me Not batch and my picture isn't very good.
I didn't think the plants were in great shape and when I commented on them I got the sense they had been sprayed for spider mites. So with this one you may want to take all the leaves off and rinse it in water before planting.
- 29 days agolast modified: 29 days ago
I was admiring Winning Streak, a new for 2025 rose.
Winning Streak starts out with a yellow and red stripe and matures to a pink and white stripe.
Matt popped in for a friendly chat. Here he is holding out one of the younger yellow and red striped Winning Streak roses for me to take a picture of.
For those of you who haven't met him this is Matt, the owner of High Country Roses.
High Country Roses has been in his family since the 1970s.
Later on when I was walking around with Megan she commented that Winning Streak has been blooming constantly since it started blooming. She said alot of roses take a pause in the green house, even if they are continuous bloomers, but not this one. Definitely made me want to give it a try. - 29 days ago
Green house pictures:
Calico Gal in the foreground.
Overall I thought the plants looked smaller than in previous years. I don't know if they got a late start or if I'm taking pictures earlier than normal. We have had a very mild warm winter compared to normal which I would have thought would be favorable.
I will probably go back in a month or so to try and catch more in bloom. - 28 days ago
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