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Heirloom roses--your thoughts?

10 years ago

I ordered a rose from them the other day. I've read mixed reviews, but it was a reasonable price for a rose I wanted, so decided to take the chance. It's just a band. Anyone have any feedback on them, your personal experiences?

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  • 10 years ago

    I have ordered multiple roses from them. They are well packaged for shipping and are healthy and look good. I do pot my bands up for a while until they mature. Others I know plant them straight into the ground.

    Randi Holbrook thanked BethC in 8a Forney, TX
  • 10 years ago

    All good experiences here... I could of swore I just answered this thread the other day... lol

    Randi Holbrook thanked jim1961 Central Pennsylvania Zone 6a
  • 10 years ago

    Good experience here also, see my longer post on a similar thread. You may order with confidence that you will receive a healthy plant, true to name, and well packaged.

  • 10 years ago

    I have ordered from Heirloom for the past two years. This year, I ordered a half dozen bands and one gallon Westerland. The only slight disappointment I had was with the Westerland. It arrived looking smaller and weaker than some of the bands I received from them. Eden just got here today after being delayed a few weeks from my requested ship date, and it looks like the best of the bunch this year. The most robust root system for sure. Not clear why it was delayed, but count me as a happy customer this year.

    Randi Holbrook thanked arlene_82 (zone 6 OH)
  • 10 years ago

    Nothing but good!

    Randi Holbrook thanked huckdog1
  • 10 years ago

    I just received the gallon size roses I ordered on the Mother's Day sale. They are very full and so tall the tops of them were bent over to fit in the box. They are bigger than the bands I planted last spring. I am extremely pleased with them. Getting them on sale made the price with shipping reasonable.

    Randi Holbrook thanked BethC in 8a Forney, TX
  • 10 years ago

    I order 1 rose at a time from them. That way I don't have a big bite out of my wallet. They carry a lot of roses you can't find anywhere else. Everything I have received from them in the past 2 yrs has been in perfect shape. Will continue to order from them every 2 or 3 weeks, until I have everything I want.

  • 10 years ago

    Yes, a picture DOES say a thousand words! Your plant is lovely, Jasmine! I did get Rainbow's End today, at last. I'd ordered it on the 8th. Still took less than two weeks, but I did have to email them once, and the plant was sent two days after that. Anyway, it's 13" tall, and, well, here's MY picture!



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    Looking good. Rainbow's End is a beautiful, colorful rose. I hope it grows well for you.

  • 10 years ago

    All of my one gallon own roots come from HR. Majority are DA roses. Most of them come with buds and they are true to identity. But a few looked like they are oversized bands that were potted in gallons. Also, there are some that arrived with spider mite. Overall, however I am happy with what they send. No RMV yet (fingers crossed).

  • 10 years ago

    Love them. I've had good experiences all around.


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    Meh, I order from them as a last resort. One of the older customer service reps there is a surly Sally. I don't like their top dollar pricing, the plants are small for what they charge. 30% more expensive than bands from other vendors, in fact, their band pricing is sometimes equal to the #1 gallon price of others. I rate Heirloom as average to acceptable. If we hadn't lost so many other excellent rose nurseries such as Vintage, Ashdown, Pickering, Desert, Sequoia, Nor'East, Carlton etc. the last few years, I wouldn't have ordered from Heirloom at all.

  • 10 years ago

    Love Heirloom, but my #1 go-to is Northland Rosarium. The owner, Carol, is awesome.


  • 10 years ago
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    I've ordered a few roses from them in band and gallon size, as some people have said there are times where the gallons are just mostly soil with a twig stuck in it. That being said all the plants took off very quickly for mean and I'm quite pleased. I also think they have the most user friendly website and a great selection (even if it's not readily available).

  • 10 years ago

    I ordered from them years ago, a lot, I haven't lose any plants from them. I don't do that now, not because of quality of their products, but because they don't have the roses I wanted to grow. Size of the plants has not been that important to me. After all, you are bands. As long as they arrived healthy and have decent root systems, you ought to be golden. Roses are tough plants. Of course, assuming you are not get those that lack vigor l

  • 10 years ago

    Here are some pictures of roses I ordered from Heirloom this year and last year. All photos are from the last day or two. Most of the roses I received were healthy and thriving. The only true disappointment has been this Westerland, which arrived looking bad a few weeks ago and is only looking worse today:

    In contrast, here is a band sized Buff Beauty which arrived a few weeks ago healthy as can be:

    Here is Benjamin Britten, who arrived as a band and has been in the ground for 13 months. He is healthy today and taller than the fence:

    Jilly Jewel, a band ordered this year that arrived with a bit of blackspot:

    Denver's Dream ordered this year and growing well in a container:

    Crown Princess Margarita arrived as a gallon in spring 2015. She is healthy and thriving this season (if a bit crowded):

  • 4 years ago

    I have ordered 4plants from them this year , they arr very small , 3 heritage rosez look nothing like the actual DA rose , they are completly white nit cupped or pink , the 4th kne arrived weak and the one flower bud was almost dry , way to expensive for what i received , the plants are defiinitly a watered down version of the original ones in my expirience .

  • 4 years ago

    For me, young first year plants often look nothing like their mature counterparts. If well planted, Id give them time. Raspberry Cream Twirl , purchased last year, is doing great.

  • 4 years ago

    Thank you!! usually this is true , these 3 heritage roses just look very diferrent from the 3 first flushes . i will give them some time . the 4th plant , the scepter isle only had one bloom but looks closer to the mature one i have .

  • 4 years ago
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    @HU-101982471

    I have ordered over a hundred roses from Heirloom Roses HR in last 30 years. They are my first choixe in nurseries. I order from many nurseries , but have had my best results usually from HR.

    HR ships only own-root roses. Own root roses first year are in one gallon pots , but due to their nature of growing on their own roots take first year to grow their roots establishing in ground & may bloom a little, but plants will be smaller than growth of grafted first year roses. The bare-root roses appear first year to grow faster as they are grafted on root stock. However, after a year, own root roses really take off growing vigorously 2nd year, over winter better, are often more healthy and disease resistant and often out perform grafted roses thriving, health, bloom and vigor. My Heirloom Roses are in my gardens of 120 roses and all of my HR are growing better, after 1year, now than my grafted roses.

    in regions where you have cold freezing winters own root roses do better than grafted surviving the winter. Own root roses generally live longer than grafted, also. I am just patient with first year own-root roses. 2nd year they are fantastic with good soils and good fertilizng!

    Leonardo de Vinci, from Heirloom Roses 2nd year blooms…




    Parade Day, from HR, 2nd year blooms, 5ft. , blooms profusely!




    I have 30 new roses this year,, most came from HR. Those that came in early spring have bloomed and i enjoyed some very much! I have a thread ”2022 MY FAVORITE OLD GARDEN ROSES,” most came from HR & had beautiful blooms because they came in early spring. Check out this tgread fir photos of my HR roses. I received a few new roses recently from HR, now August. They may not have time to bloom before winter, but next year, their 2nd year, -they will be fabulous!

  • 4 years ago

    Thank you very much Kitty , this makes me hopefull . your roses look beautiful and strong . i have been growing roses for about 15 years now , in a smaller garden , mostly DA s from them dirrectly , i will give this new ones some time and compare the bloom shapes ect.. to the same ones i already have .

  • 4 years ago
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    HU, You’re welcome! 🌺🥀🌷🌹