Neither of my 1st two Tractor Supply roses were true to type, but they’re very nice roses!

This is Double Delight!

...except that it’s Peace!

And here’s Just Joey

...looking very much like Granada!

I have 4 or 5 more Tractor Supply mystery roses yet to bloom...some fun suspense for the spring.

What a fun thread! Your Peace is lovely! This was sold as Red Eden. The buds weren’t open so .. SURPRISE!!!

It’s definitely not Red!

I wish I had taken a picture last summer but my Kardinal rose ended up being a Lemon Fizz. I’m not a big fan of yellow roses so I SP’d it. I bought it at Home Depot.

I wanted and bought Intrigue, but got Paradise.....

I bought six so well see what happens. One was labeled Modern Magic, but had an original Alfred Sisley tag nestled around the main cane in the soil so we'll see on that one as well. I'm still hoping to ID three from last year!

My one Home Depot purchase this year was Intrigue, and it bloomed a couple of days ago, and it's actually Intrigue! This is mainly for sharon2079.

I’m so happy to see the responses!

Magpie, I have a Home Depot body bag too, I wonder if they are as full of surprises as Tractor Supply’s.

Suncoast,

I wonder if you still got a climber , New Dawn maybe?

Laura,

I have heard that mislabeled roses often the next rose in the alphabet, since they maybe be arranged alphabetically. in your case L coming right after K

Sharon,

Hope you like Paradise, that one seems to show up in body bags often.

Vap

I’m going to put my money on Al Sisley, they probably ran out of pics of it so they used what they had

Susan

Intrigue was actually Intrigue? That’s not supposed to happen!

Ben I think it probably is a climber and New (and White) Dawn and Cecil Brunner were my guesses.

I really wanted a Red Eden though.

I don’t buy too many body bags, because by the time they’re available I’ve usually ordered more roses than I should have already. I think it was three years I ordered what was supposed to be St. Patrick from Edmunds, it ended up being Neil Diamond, and I’m hooked! Didn’t even think I liked striped roses that much!

Sara Ann, I think you got a cooler rose. Neil looks pretty handsome !

I agree with Kristine, Sara Ann, you really got a great one with Neil Diamond. Although I do like St Patrick too, so it’d be still worth getting if you haven’t already.

Suncoast,

I’m sorry you didn’t get the rose you really wanted, there are certain varieties that I went to great effort to acquire and I’d be very disappointed if they weren’t true. But for me these body bags were just so healthy that I got them on the cheap, and I’ll just gift away the ones I don’t really need. My friend’s Peace died in the polar vortex, and I already had one that survived, so I gave her my Peace body bag.

This is from last year but I still haven't gotten an ID.
It was a Certified Roses body bag. All the petals quilled, and they all had the fading from light on the end to dark in the middle.
Carla in Sac
Carla in Sac

Mine were:

Intrigue

Oklahoma

Mister Lincoln

Pascali- don’t think think one is going to make it, whatever it is

i should know in a few weeks

Fun thread Ben! Last year I purchased what should have been Perfume Breeze but ended up being Dancing in the Dark. Not a bad trade off but I’m still hoping to try Perfume Breeze someday.

My four other body bags were actually correct - 3 Moonlight in Paris and Blue Girl. I didn’t think that four out of five was too bad considering what the odds normally seem to be.

Here's a great example of the alpha thing BenT mentioned. In the early 2000s, I was up north at Vintage Roses (back when they had a brick and mortar nursery), and got the last Mount Hood band. But when I brought it up to buy, Gregg (the owner) noticed that it didn't have a regular tag, just the big stake for the row of roses. He told me that it was really iffy on the i.d., but I decided to get it. Turns out it was Monet, and the incorrect i.d. eventually helped me i.d. it. BTW, I'm really happy it turned out to be Monet, and I still have it!

Ben,

Thanks for the starting this thread.

I just planted two body bags in pots on my front porch: Touch of Class and Paradise. We'll see what I really have when the plants produce the first flowers in 4 weeks or so. <grin> I potted the body bags up on Wednesday. Each plant looks like it didn't miss a beat. Both were leafed out somewhat and had white roots just starting when I removed the plastic.

My last body bag purchase was last spring: a red rose (Proud Land, which I've wanted to try for a long time) that was NOT correct. It is a red hybrid tea/grandiflora. The blooms come pretty much singly, have NO fragrance, and hold the scarlet-red color until I HAVE to remove the flowers because the blooms don't drop cleanly. The petals actually develop a blackish-red tinge on the edges as the flowers age. I've tried to figure out the variety but with reds there are SO MANY choices. Ha! It reminds me a little of Ingrid Bergman or Olympiad. The flowers are well formed until half open and then reveal the stamens and centers. It survived the winter in a pot of my front porch. I'll post pictures when I start getting some flowers in May or June. I should also mention that this body bag had TWO roses in the same bag. I didn't manage to get the two plants separated because the roots were growing and the sawdust in the body bag was tight in a couple spots. I did try to break it apart, but erred on the side of not damaging the rose(s). The two bud unions are right next to each other. The plant(s) grew well and bloomed most of last summer, despite the crushing heat and humidity.

Didn't meant to ramble........

Chris

Searched Certified Roses.
Does anyone think
First Impression could be my rose? Assuming heat fading?

Carla in Sac

Carla, First Impression fits its name perfectly. It has perfectly formed, very deep yellow blooms for the first day or two (depending on the weather), then blows to a much more faded yellow. My gut feeling is that the open bloom in your pic has too much deep yellow to be First Impression. That's more the color it has in its early stages. Also, although it's classified as a FL, it seems more like a mini-flora to me, and the blooms are not very large. But I could be wrong!

Thanks Susan yeah my mystery rose is almost the size of my hand. It has no scent but then it was a baby plant, so maybe as it matures it might.

Sara Ann - that's a FABULOUS Neil Diamond shot!! STUNNING!

Carla - your mystery rose is WONDERFUL!!!! Oh my!

@BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14) Yeah - I agree and I never really mind with body bags and sometimes it’s fun to get a rose you never thought about. I’m not mad, just a teensy bit disappointed as I really love all the Edens and I’m not sure I am experienced enough to manage a monster New Dawn if that’s what this is ( and is think it’s likely) so I am a bit intimidated by it. BUT if it blooms well I’ll be happy. I also wouldnt be as disappointed if I did t have two! LOLOL ::SMH::!!!

Well, this body bag labeled Paradise just started producing flowers. This body bag was labeled correctly.

First opening flower:

The other body bag, labeled Touch of Class, has buds, one of which is just started to show a small wedge of color. Probably another week or so before it starts to peel back the sepals. <grin>

Chris.....in WV

Chris - yup...they got that one right! It's beautiful!!

Wanted blue moon, pretty sure I got lagerfeld. Blue moon does not have the grandiflora shape like this rose. Oh well, I wanted lagerfeld also so I am very happy!

Instead of starting a new thread on my mislabelled roses I thought I would just add here if that's okay. This Rose was bought at Menards 2021. It was meant to be Miranda but is obviously not that! It's a very nice Rose and very healthy thus far but not deep red which is what I wanted in this spot. I'd like to identify it.

@Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley

Tropicana?

I know that is an old one thats often sold like this so good guess. Ill look it up! Thanks.😊

You are a genius! I think that's it! It's at a friend's Garden so he will have to check its fragments tomorrow but I think based on all the leaf and flower ID you have it named. Thank you! Now we'll move on to the next Rose. LOL!

Thanks for "bumping" this, Vaporvac! I was going to guess Fragrant Cloud or Tropicana for that body bag that wasn't Mirandy. <grin>

The Touch of Class body bag, which I mentioned several posts above, bloomed last week and I forgot I had pictures in my camera. It looks like it is correct, too:

The flowers look just like I remember years ago when I first saw this in bloom. These blooms have already shattered and I cut back the stems, which are now showing new growth.

Chris

Gorgeous! I'll look up Fragrant Cloud. I wondered about that also, but am not onsite to sniff. My friend rarely smells these roses because he doesn't like to bend over. : (Hopefully, @BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14) will see this and comment as I know he grows a gorgeous FC.

Vaporvac, Tropicana is a rose that is often sold is bags. I guess it was a lucky guess.