Oh yay tooth fairy. I'm so thrilled you got to share in on the secret. I'm so happy for you.

The toothfairy does more than leave money under your pillow!

Summersr, you need to be restrained...41 Heritage rose bushes. And a double whammy in some pots. Wow. I want to see photos when they bloom. And do you have a lot of space? I am so jealous. Diane

Nice find!

Any chance you have photos of the containers and tags?

I may hit my Lowes to see if they have any.

I most definitely would loose all restraint if I came across such a find! I only wish!!! I'm happy for you!

Wow! What an awesome find! I am in central FL and have never seen any Austins at my Lowes. However, I did find Kordes Zaide, Summer Romance, First Crush, Ballerina, and Dennis Kellogg on clearance.

I went to 2 other lowes by me and found a few more others. If anyone is in south florida there are about 10 charlotte roses at the lowes in east oakland. Here is a photo of the label tag of 1 rose.

queen of sweden. The David Austin tag was buried and I had to dig a little. As you can see this rose is definitely not a Gene Boerner (which I also happen to have).

Great find

OK, I went to my lowes here in Charleston. No such luck....dangit

But, I did get a Kordes Blush Veranda*, and I'm excited about that! Sadly they weren't on clearance like mad_for_roses found.

*edited because I thought it was First Blush and went to check after I posted. oops

Diane, I know I went overboard on Heritage, I only had 1 Heritage from Chamblee until 3 weeks ago, I didn't know Heritage weren't good cutting roses, I got them for cutting flowers...... but the blooms lasted pretty long on the plants, they were blooming when I got them. Now they're my landscaping roses like KOs. :-) I don't have a big lot, I pull out a lot of perennials, and I planted them pretty close, some of them only have 1' in between, too close I know...... a lot of DAs don't grow big in my garden.

Well I know what I'm doing tomorrow!

Congratulations, excellent roses, very nice price. Pics?

Why didn’t you inform the store manager that they had the roses mislabeled???

I told him and he was uninterested. Unless it was a knock out he didn't know one rose from another. The roses came in without the typical hanging tags but they did have a price tag stuck on the pot that said $9.95 with a bar code that were put there before they arrived at the store. They had DA labels in the dirt. I wouldn't have known otherwise. Nothing unethical about it.

Lucky you BethC! I would be absolutely thrilled if I found some Austins at those prices. I was at my Lowes today and no such luck. They just had some Kordes Summer Romance and First Crush, and a couple of hybrid teas, all at regular price.

Great, glad you told him, you just restored my faith in people.

I actually did mention it to the manager of the garden section and you know what he said? He told me he'd sell them to me at 50% off And that he wanted to get rid of them. I took the lot. 14 Austin roses for $5.49 here is a pic of my new rose bed. I got 37 in total. And to tell you the truth, I don't think they were mislabeled by accident. DA recently raised the royalty charges on their roses. I bet the farmers found they'd make a bigger profit if they sold them as non-patined varieties. That's the only way I can comprehend this 'mixup'. Many had blooms that were clearly not even close to Spartain of Gene Borener etc.

wow, oh wow. So happy for you!!!!!! I ran....Ok, drove really fast to my Lowes and I wasn't so lucky. They only had knockouts, and a few Kordes. :( I have been keeping my eyes open though. I really want to get some. Your garden is beautiful, I was trying to imagine where you would be planting them. You will have to post pictures when you get them planted. Great find.

What a bargain!!! $5.49 each!!! So happy for you!!!

Can you imagine my luck? I ended up with 37 in total. All planted in the bed. The varieties I know that I have are Alnwick, Charlotte, Scepter D'isle, Winchester Cathedral, Queen of Sweden, Eglantyne, Huntington Rose and what I think may be Scarborough Fair but I'm not quite sure as it wasn't labeled, I'm just going by the bloom. I also have about 5 or 6 that are complete mysteries as they had neither a tag or a bloom so we'll see if we can ID them when they do bloom. I'm very very excited. Most of them were on their own roots too. A few were grafted.

Here is a pic of the finished rose bed. All 37 fit comfortably at 18 inches apart. They are a little crowded, but I really wanted them to be full and bushy and DA suggests 18 inches to form a solid shrub so that's what I did. I actually ended up having room for 3 more so I added my own Huntington Rose that was growing in a large pot, my Olivia and my Boscobal to the mix. The entire bed will be a mixture of pinks, apricots and pale pale Charlotte yellow. I cant wait to see them grow!!

Label that is on almost all I have seen:

Label on the pot. Appears to be from a Florida nursery in Apopka, which is near the Mouse.

Since they are from a Florida nursery, wouldn't it seem probable that most of these Austins will be going to Florida Lowes stores?

Here's what I brought home... marked as Lark Ascending.

Unmarked. Not that yellow. Maybe Litchfield Angel?
Unmarked, highly fragrant.

All the blooms are rather small and many had already bloomed out. Florida heat... And, as far as I could discern, they all had the same label with the bright yellow pic. I went to an upscale neighborhood for these. There are at least two more Lowes in my usual haunts. What a find!

YAY! I'm glad my sharing this info got these roses good a home.

That yellowish one on top might be Charlotte as my Lowes had lots of that one. It also looks like Claire Austin as Claire is more a pale yellow here in FL. Another possibility is Jude The Obscure, but only if its got a intense fragrance. Either way its very pretty!

What are the names of the roses on the Lowe's label tags? I will check my local Lowe's.

Beautiful!

Gorgeous blooms!

thonotorose..

...I'm not sure if you want confirmation about your 'Lark Ascending' or not, but it very much looks like it to me... here's mine from last year, plus photo of the very thorny cane which I can also see in yours.

I hope you have room, mine is over 6 foot tall and it's very vigorous, throwing thick canes up from the base, in its 2nd year..

Thank you, Marolena. I agree. It is the same. Wonderfully scented, as are the other two.

SoFL! Here's to holding out hope that it is JTO. Always wanted to try/smell that one. Thanks so much for the tip about these beauties!!!

For my fellow Florida Buds: Went to the Valrico Lowes this morning and they had Don Juans and a pink grandeflora only. :(

Tomorrow I have a work reason to head into South Tampa. :) After that, I think I might take the Leroy Selmon crosstown expressway back and end up in south Brandon. :) Lucky me...

South Tampa Lowes had bupkiss. However, I did find lots more at the Brandon one from which I adopted an Alnwick Rose. There were MANY there but only one or two labeled. I'm probably going back to the first store I saw them, pre SoFL's post. I didn't look for labels there.

My lowe's just had a bunch of climbing new dawn's for $30 which were actually all white.

Are those White Dawn? I saw them for the 1st time at a nursery last week. White Dawn is New Dawn's baby.

Maybe but the label said new dawn with a picture of a pink climbing rose...it was pretty but definitely not new dawn. I thought it was pretty expensive. All the other roses were $12. It will end up on clearance because people don't plant a lot of flowers where I live.

This is my ND, but it will turn completely white in a day or two.

That's a pretty photo. I'd check mine when I get home today. Just planted 3 ND, they're in bloom.

So, I decided to visit another Lowes today and I scored big time! I only found yellow Austins though. I ended up with 2 Teasing Georgias, 2 Charlottes, one each of The Pilgrim, Graham Thomas, and The Lark Ascending. Wowsa! Here's to an early happy birthday to me! Who knows what else I may find by the end of the week?

Nice findings! At what price?

Darn I went to a Lowes by my house and found nada. How far are the tags buried? lol! I felt kinda weird digging through the pots looking for DA tags.

Summersrhythm they were $10.98 each. Some of they were really big plants.

Sultry_jasmine_nights the tags were buried kind of deep. The tags on the pots were New Day Rose, exactly like the photos that thonotorose posted earlier. Good luck!

My goodness, that's a bargain! So happy for you! Happy gardening. :-)

Talking about bargains, today is the last shipping day for JP and Wayside Gardens- per their customer service. :-)

Update: Their website says still have 48 hrs.

OK, Two more came home and I have a job over in Pinellas County tomorrow. After that I think I will just stalk the racks of death for the BIG discounts. Again, thank you, I am having so much fun!

Anyone recognize this one?

It's beautiful, it looks like Teasing Georgia.......

I ended up with 2 Jubilee Celebrations! (I was able to ID them after they bloomed) its like my absolute Favorite Austin and I am thrilled!

Good for you SoFl Rose!

What are they yellow tagged as? I saw many tagged as Gene Boerner and I dug a bit, but no DA tags. I also saw one yellow tagged (can't remember the name) but it had another white tag reading Waiheke. You can tell the picture doesnt match the rose. I started feelin weird so I left. I would love to run into a Scepter d'Isle, Eglantyne or a JTO, though!

Thonotorose, that white with a cream center might be Crocus Rose which I grow unsprayed with great leaf retention and good repeat bloom.

allright....I found one at Lowe's in Jacksonville fl. And it was the only one but I'm on a treasure hunt now ...this should be fun ...darcey Bussell da $12

All the DA's I've found at Lowes with pink and yellow rose tags are dated 5/16/16 or 5/17/16. Since the plants are priced and labeled at the nursery the dates help in the search.

Please update if you have found other dates. Thanks.