Now I must check out their website, I dont need anymore roses either.. but I do have an east facing wall where I can "build" a planter for more roses... hmmm

Be why I couldn't sign in. I'll have to check it out I was so annoyed.

I think I’m gonna have to call Matt and see if I can add to my order. Oh dear.

Yikes. Added two Victorian Memories to my order.

Yikes is right, I thought my rose buying splurge was done so I could concentrate on the companion plant binge .

Oursteelers- Victorian Memory is lovely and suits it's name.

Lilyfinch you perpetually reign queen of enablers.

I crumpled up my list of 17 and threw it away, then fished it back out. Roses are so much like potato chips.

I have managed to resist moss roses because of the once blooming drawback, but Communis looks so wonderful and is rarely in stock. Will have to think this over.

They have such great offerings !! I really want a gloire Dijon , Morgengruss and boy wenlock is gorgeous!!

Berry pie I also really need companion plants . I’m trying but roses are way more exciting!!! I have this terrible shade area that needs filled but it’s pulling teeth to get me to spend money on that corner .

Lilyfinch, My shade area is no fun, but I put in a few Hostas that take up lots of room with their big leaves to make it look full.

Every year I look at Gloire de Dijon. There is a point I have to be realistic though and just can't have it until I make a nice warm greenhouse. You picked three I would love. I'm trying to be super careful and selective now because I want the new healthy Austins next year.

Lily,

High Country Roses revamped website is quite impressive. I hope HCR will continue to maintain its high quality rose standards and great customer service. It seems to be a rising star in the world of home rose gardeners.

Moses

You should get GdD, Lilyfinch. I was recently disappointed as I couldn't use the 10% discount and a gift certificate at the same time. That didn't make sense.

Stop it Jen!! Lol. Now I gotta go look.

Their prices are great! For example, I'm about to order a Baronne Prevost from Heirloom Roses for $45 for a gallon and High Country has it for $17 for a quart. I wonder now which one I should buy. Not sure how long a quart would take to catch up or if there are other differences to take into account.

I hope you're happy Lilyfinch, I have no room, but ordered Bliss from High Country Roses this morning. Good thing they're small! And the price is great. Now enough enabling! (For awhile)

I agree we can fit so many more High Country Roses on the patio than big grafted roses. They are so much easier to plant in the ground too, and seem to size right up in their first Summer. My last Summer planted ones all grew to full size already and are headed for bigger yet this year.

Dottie,

In two years a quart size and gallon size of the same variety will be the same size. In three years the originally smaller bush will be larger and more vigorous than its originally older, larger neighbor. Given a choice, always choose the smaller size. A smaller size will send out anchor roots more easily into native soil.

An older rose's anchor roots are already forming in the confinement of its gallon pot. If they are circling the inside of the pot at planting out time into the garden, they can be teased outward, but greatly stressing them and the entire bush, often stalling its growth. Alternately, the root mass can be cut into vertically, every 2 inches all around, breaking the circling cycle, and the abbreviated anchor roots will venture out with branching roots, but in a more restricted manner, and not to the more wide ranging extent as a smaller rose's anchor roots would, whose anchor roots are venturing out into native soil with no limiting, drastic shock occurring to them.

When anchor roots are free to grow out unimpeded, the bush can access more nutrients and moisture available farther out from the bush.

Moses

An own-root 'Garden Sun'! Wait, no, I am out of space for climbers! Must resist, must resist! They have some spinossisimias I've been eyeing that I'll probably break down and get though. And with a coupon, whoohoo! Thanks Lily!

Welcome back Judy, we missed pics of your roses, garden, and your handsome grandsons. Helen

Matt and his team are really good people, and great rose growers. All my roses from him have just thrived.

I’ve already placed an order, and I think I might add to it. I love supporting these kinds of growers. :-)

Lily, here is my order: Charlie Brown, Marbrée, Rainbow's End, Fimbriata, and Jeanne Lajoie. Earliest shipping date is 3/9/2020. I used the 20% off coupon code. Thanks Lily.

When you sign up for the newsletter to receive the coupon code, it may take more than 30 min to receive the email with the coupon code. The email may go to your Spam folder, so check that.

It's dangerous to read posts on this forum. You though you are done, then you start order more, lol. Helen

Buying the less expensive quart-sized rose is actually better? Music to my ears! Now after browsing my new library book, Antique Roses for the South, I need to narrow my cart down from 12 picks. :)

It is so hard being a rose addict !!! Because I realize I must try gloire de Dijon , after all who knows how long I’ll live in California where it should thrive ?! What if we move again and I have to live with regret that I never tried that rose? I shall not suffer ;)

I’m glad we have this nursery to feed our needs!! It seems much bigger now that I see the new website. I’m not sure I ever noticed a 1800 number before. I guess I thought it was just Matt and a small crew not such a large business!

Mossy , bliss is so beautiful you’ll wish you had ordered two !!

Ac : I also want garden sun!! I love that shade of yellow . Yum ! I don’t know where to put it either , who cares though.

Awesome Helen !! Beautiful order . I love jeanne lajoie .

If I had even just 6 more inches of space I would try fruity petals ! How cute is that rose !!

Vapor I am going to get it . Now do I try ghislane de feligonde also ?

My husband is going to be so upset if these all grow as big as they say . He won’t be able to get to the pool without fighting through them ! Haha

Yes! You definitely should try gdf. Antique Rose Emporium discontinue this Rose so let's give Matt some love on it! You know Lilly Finch I have visited High Country roses multiple times when I've been in Colorado and it is not really a very big business it's just him and his family and a couple of people helping him. His help is fantastic though and they're so into roses. I haven't really noticed that they're tearing more roses maybe it's just that there easier to find on the site? I don't know I pretty much know his stock inside and out because when you've been to a place and walk up and down the aisle of the greenhouse you just get to know the Roses. It's so great to see the mother plants also. I'm glad to hear you're getting gdd because you just never know! If I could grow some black spotty Rose's here and know they be clean I'd be on hquite right on that.im in a minute.

So fun!!! I also like the smaller sizes - I find the big grafted roses hard to plant - I feel like the graft root takes up so much of the good vertical space in the pot or hole.

Does anyone know if Bourbons do well without a winter freeze? I’m always tempted by them, but feel like I read somewhere that they need a freeze to bloom well. (That could be totally wrong - don’t take my word for it!!!)

Evil enablers all of you (but especially Lilyfinch for alerting us to the great changes at HCR!) I was already "done" ordering 13 roses from HCR for the spring, but with the new and restocked roses I ended up ordering another 10. Matt has some great plants and he's the nicest guy! A few years ago I had to call them about something and didn't reach them directly so I didn't leave a message at the time. Apparently Matt not only checked who had called and not reached him, but he called me back within an hour and said "Yeah Cynthia, when I saw the call was from Nebraska I figured it would have been you". Note that I've not been an annoying customer as far as I know to have Matt remember me. I think he just takes each and every customer seriously enough to get to know them and consider their perspective on roses.

Also of course his roses do extremely well when planted. Both HCR and Northland are geared well for cold zone rose growers, as well as of course the incomparable Palatine. For the record, the first 13 roses were: Belle Poitevine, Bill Reid, Champagne Arches, Fairmount Proserpine, Fred Loads, Hera's Song, Morden 6910, Morden Sunrise, Pillow Fight, Tintinara, Wilhelm, and York Street Yellow. New order was: Alice Flores Purple Hybrid China (apparently hardy to zone 5 - be still my beating heart!), Burst of Joy, Candy Land, Carefree Sunshine, Carefree Wonder, Firecracker, Ketchup & mustard, Sky's the Limit, Victorian Memory, and Wise Portia.

Cynthia

Well dang it I have really wanted Bliss

I guess that this is the right time.

Today if it isnt pouring rain I am working on my shade area

Elephant ears and bleeding hearts. Some lamium not sure what else

Maybe trillium?

My shade favorites are hosta, hydrangea, huechera and fuschia. Oh and my poor peonies. The roses have stolen all the sun spots but I can’t be without my peonies. They are all starting to wake up :)

Cyndita, given the tropical climate on the Isle de Bourbon from whence came the class of Bourbon Roses, I think you should be safe growing them! I've always considered myself lucky to grow Maggie and she does have some die-back. Some of the European OGRs such as the albas, Centifolias and Gallicas require winter chill, I believe. If this isn't correct, someone please correct me! ; ))

Thanks for the heads up on the sale

I ordered Bliss. I thought that I done ordering but have really wanted that one and the price was right. Now go scope out a place

even though I pretty sure that I have nothing lol