I recall a winter a few years ago when we had a hard, late freeze, and it appeared that some root-stocks were damaged since they left then outdoors. Hopefully there are not too many out now since we are having killing-freezes, but have the bare-root rose hit the big box stores in your area yet? I know that Austin Costco's had the usual (ho-hum) suspects but I have not seen others yet. I'm hopeful that we have a good crop offered.

A couple years ago I scored some nice ones at Walmart, with a wonderful assortment at the store.

BTW, no idea why Houzz assigned be a random i.d.. I apologize.