I wish R.U. would put pictures of all their roses on their site.

Wow, Thanks for the info! My birthday is coming up in 3 weeks, let me see what I can get away with!

Brian

Yeah! My birthday is in 2weeks. I got DH to give Nor'East roses for our Anniversary with their farewell sale. Now I will "suggest" he take advantage of this sale. lol

Hi Phyl! I have a call into RU myself and am checking on 3 roses. EuroDesert also has a sale going on; buy 3 get 1 free, so I'm getting some from Cliff too.

Anyway, I have Henri. Love, love this guy. He's in his 2nd year and just keeps getting better. You will adore the red color; it's the red with blue gene...and the stripes are great! It's very healthy but I do spray for BS. Last year for protection I just threw some dried Miscanthus grass over the top of him and Camille Pisarro because they were first-year infants in the garden and they sprang right up in the spring and started blooming without missing a beat. Great choice!
-terry

Hope you can find something you want there....when I called I gave him a list of about 10-11 I was at least interested in and he said he'd call me back to tell me which ones he had, which he did. I was surprised he had all but one (Rosanna)!

Terry-thanks for the info on Henri. I love stripes,but have only had a few....Oranges & Lemons (which I thought I would like, but turns out too garish for my tastes) & had George Burns, but, I don't know, just blew so quick, so I gave to someone.
I love to make bouquets, so am tired of some that don't work well in that regard.
:0)Phyl

I am not sure if the roses will have enough time to establish themselves before winter. It will be almost August when they arrive. The only roses I would consider buying this late in the season are 2 gallon own root OGRs. I bought 4 roses last summer at the RU summer sale and half of them died over the winter.

I guess I'm still going to chance it...Bill said they'd ship out on the 6th...so far all the own-roots I've grown (most from them) have been planted in June and done fine.
I'm wondering if I should plant them any deeper (like you would a grafted rose)...would this make any difference?
Thanks for the warning!
:0) Phyl

Lily (who has about 40 years of experience on me) always said the drop dead date for own-root roses was the 4th of July. If you can't get them in before that, don't bother. I've planted Explorer bands in November and gotten away with it, but those are totally different beasts.

You pays your money and takes your chances.

R U Sale alert?

U R bad! ;^)

I double-checked with RU and they assured me that my order had already been processed and is ready to be shipped Monday 7/6. So I'm thinking they'll be here and planted by next weekend. Their one gallon own roots have always arrived huge and even blooming....so, we'll see how much difference 6 weeks or so will make in their ability to overwinter fine. I'll let you all know next year! :0)
Thanks again though, for the warnings. Phyl

I just e-mailed and asked about availabilty of the four I would like to have.

I hope you can get the ones you wanted.....which ones did you hope to get? Just curious-seems like we had similar tastes...didn't you have Greetings? And a few others we have.... :0) Phyl

Phyl,
I am very happy with my Laguna, it's a very vigorous and fast growing climber. The flowers are very fragrant. But the best thing for me about Laguna is that it's completely disease-resistant without any fungicide spray (I switched to no-spray gardening three years ago). It is Laguna's third season in my garden and it already covered a half of our pergola.
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Wow! I love Laguna!! Anyone grow him farther south? I'm wondering how her handles prolonged heat and minimal cold.

Thanks!

Sherry

Alla, that is incredible!

So, anyone please chime in here, what should we plan to train this rose on? It will be our first CLIMBER climber, if you catch my drift. We have Red Eden, Don Juan and Polka, none so far has gotten all that tall yet.

I was thinking some kind of pillar, but it looks way too FAT to wrap around a pillar, right? How wide and tall is it so far?
I can't believe that is just one rose bush!

Trellis/pillar/pergola.....don't know what to plan to put it against!

:0) Phyl

Phyl,
I have no idea how big Laguna grows, in my zone or yours, I just assume in your colder zone it'll be somewhat smaller.
As to training Laguna, it is so easy to train it because the canes are very flexible and thin. My Laguna has not thrown any thick, stiff, long canes high into the sky, like other climbers did that I used to grow. I think you will have excellent success with training this particular climber onto a pillar using Paul Zimmerman's technique shown in his video on You Tube. Good luck!

So, just to clarify...every single rose they have listed on their website is $10 including the Barni & others that usually cost more than the others?
Thanks. :)

I'm pretty sure that's the case...but you probably should call them soon to make sure what you want isn't sold out. Hope you have success!

That 'Laguna' is spectacular, alla_pa, thank you for posting the picture.

Mine have grown a lot but not bloomed much (2nd season). I agree the canes are quite flexible. They are quite thorny, too.

Yes--$10 for everything left. I'm picking up the Barni "Roberto Capucci" and the Delbard "Com. de Segur" for $10 each tomorrow, along with a bunch of others!

Phyl- I just heard from RU this morning. My order ships 7/13. I am getting -

Francois Rabelais
Julio Iglesias
Alfred Sisley
Henri Matisse

I already have one Francois Rabelais that I bought from RU two years ago but I love this rose so much that I wanted another one. This sale is the perfect excuse to do just that.

Then the others are striped roses and I have been wanting and looking to add some striped roses so I am a very happy camper.

Yes, I am the person that also has a GREETINGS just like you do. I am not sure what my taste in roses is except that it is very varied with all sorts of flower forms here and I love them all.

That's great news, Rita! Yes, I have varied tastes too, but there are a few kinds of things I definitely DON'T like in a rose:

Minis who open and show dirty-loking stamens
Quilled blooms
Blooms that open too quickly

I just made room for my RU order by giving away 5 rose bushes & a giant iris too. And I made a wonderful new gardening friend in the process!
:0) Phyl

I made some room for all the roses I bought these past few weeks by moving some BIG shrub roses from the front yard to the back, therfore freeing up room. Planning some more have round planters, already have the blocks just need the work done, planning to put some roses in a garden bed newly made this spring just filled with annuals now (going to put them at the end) and last but not least is the hard part. I am moving my roses and re-arranging my entire rose bed that runs along the side of my house. The HTs in the one section are moving and I am going to make it shrub and floribundas.

Sounds like a lot of work! Lately, I am finding I love shrub roses and floribundas the most...I have some hybrid teas/grandifloras whose blooms I love WHEN they decide to bloom, but the others seem to bloom more or less continuously.
:0) Phyl

Ordered today: Traviata, Royal Wedding and Stars and Stripes Forever. Does anyone have a comment on Stars and Stripes? I love striped roses and I am taking a gamble on this rose! I have three spots just waiting. Lesley

Placed my first order from RU--Rouge Royale, Apricot Sky, and Irish Hope.

Already impressed with how well they respond to email.

Lesley- Humm, I didn't notice STARS N STRIPES FOREVER until you brought it up. I bought 3 striped roses and maybe I should add this one too. Of course, I never heard of it before so am no help to you, sorry.

Rita,
I often like to try a rose I have not heard about. Sometimes I find success and sometimes I don`t!! I`ll let you know how this rose does for me. I`m in KY. so not the same zone but some info is better than none. Rita, your gardens are an inspiration to me. Your roses are wonderful and the addition of your daylily collection and lilies are spectacular. Keep posting!!! Lesley

Was by there today and they have about 700 roses different types on sale for $4.00...man did I stock up..