Plant now!

GGG

ashli, are they bare root or in pots? If they are bare root, you can soak them in a pail up to a week. Pots you can keep longer, but make sure you water the pots.

In our zone, you can plant anytime, the ground doesn't freeze. I don't think it's going to get as cold as it was last weekend, if that is what you are worried about. It's actually better to get them in the ground and acclimated before it gets too hot.

Okay, GGG, I planted the Home Run and Carefree Sunshine...
Are ya' happy now? ha
I am.
You motivated me to go outside...it was misting rain, but working in the dirt is good therapy.

Mist raining is the best time to garden!
Buford, does your ground freeze where you are? I know you had more frost that we did in downtown Atlanta, but I am wondering if your ground really freezes?
Although we have had ice since I've lived here, the ground has never frozen.
Just curious. I don't know all that much about many parts of Georgia (or even Atlanta it seems).

Here is a link that might be useful: Emerald Lake Gardens!

Buford...they are container- grown Roses...I still have several yet to plant...hopefully tomorrow...(I'm slow) and have to haul off rocks from every hole I dig...
It all started innocently enough last Spring...I went to a nursery to buy my usual annuals... They had this huge Blushing Knockout Rose in a planter...displayed so that you had to walk around it to get to the annuals...a trap I know...I'm not fond of pink at all, but couldn't get that out of my mind...so later, I had to buy two of them and two red knockouts and planted them around a big tree stump...
Yes, Roses are an addiction.

girl, no, our ground here doesn't freeze at all during the winter. It has to be really cold for a time for the ground to freeze. I used to live in NY and it rarely froze there, maybe 2 inches if it was really cold.

I do get frost heaves from time to time if it rains a lot and then it gets below freezing.