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Body bag roses—do you purchase them?

I always get so excited whenever I see the body bag roses get to the store. Can’t help myself from ‘rescuing’ one or two or three. Went to Walmart today and came back with Belinda’s Dream, Chrysler Imperial (my son chose this one) and Playboy. What have been your best body bag rose finds?

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  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Good score for you!😉From menards, harkness robin hood, white medilland, pink pet, medallion, sally holmes, belindas dream, oklahoma, chuckles, moonlight in Paris, Alfred sisley and Lavender Crush. I couple others i need to look up as well as a couple of mismarked unknowns such as Pink Peace and Mirandy that is probs Fragrant Cloud or Tropicana.

  • 4 years ago

    Moonlight in Paris and Le Petit Prince were two that I got last year that did well. Not planning on getting more this year but I am happy with the performance of the 2 I got so far.

  • 4 years ago

    Wow Vapor and Misch. magpie I am so impressed with your fiends. If I find lavender crush, white Meilland, moonlight in Paris or/and le petit prince, I’m totally snagging them. 😂

  • 4 years ago

    Even though I have no place to put them.

  • 4 years ago

    Good finds! I hope Belinda's Dream shows up here! Olympiad and Love turned out to be two of my favorite reds. Sir Thomas Lipton became an overgrown menace. I need to keep a list of where all my roses came from. I know I've had Oregold, Joseph's Coat, Pascali, Shirley's Bouquet, Charisma, Queen Elizabeth, Blue Girl, Just Joey, and some unidentified others.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Don't worry mas once you have the rose you'll find the place! LOL!😉Joey, I keep a journal Over at HMF And also In a binder. I also keep a calendar. I'm ridiculous. I don't like to trust it just to HMF because sometimes that site is down and I can't access things. I don't keep my day to day stuff in my journals anymore just what I've done yearly, What I have bought and from where. I keep any sort of schedule that I might do for fertilizing Or planting et cetera on my calendar.

  • 4 years ago

    @Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley I also have a list of my roses and notes I've taken about their qualities and performance year to year. 🙃 I like writing lists a lot, tbh.

  • 4 years ago

    I know ! There's something very satisfying sitting at the end of the day writing about my roses and thinking about them. What is wrong with me!? I think that's why I like to do cuttings over the winter and in the early spring and fall. It gives me something to write about. Smiley face

  • 4 years ago

    I keep a spreadsheet with all my roses and a journal with notes. Love the idea of nursing cuttings through the winter. What a lovely pastime.

    Joey, was Charisma healthy for you?

  • 4 years ago

    @Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley that's a great idea to keep a HMF journal! I had calendars with notes, in our last move someone said 'oh, old calendars, they must go in the trash', and four years of records kaput,


    @MasLovesRoses_z8a GA Charisma was healthy and vigorous, but it was labeled Peace and just didn't click with where I wanted a creamy yellow lol. I forwarded it to my mother in law who said it was great in her garden.

  • 4 years ago

    @joeywyomingzone4 No, so sad about your calendars! That's another thing I love, paper wall calendars. Paper lists, paper calendars. Maybe it's because I like writing things by hand.

  • 4 years ago

    Kristine I'm always amazed by what people find on here. Last year I didn't find anything exciting...except Sally Holmes.

  • 4 years ago

    Must be an Oregon thing

  • 4 years ago

    It's an Idaho things, too, only worse. I've never bought a body bag rose. Years ago, I did find Julia Child in pots at a big box store (2006--the year she appeared--amazing), and that wasn't exactly a body bag. So I bought two Julias, one of which turned out to be Wild Blue Yonder (new that year, too). I spent the next month trying to find another Julia to go with the first one. I did find one in the next county at a nursery. And today, 16 years later, they both look and bloom the same. Wild Blue Yonder became my Clown Prince. I love all three of these roses. Diane

    My beloved Clown Prince

  • 4 years ago

    Kristine and Librarian, I would check what this spring brings your way locally. Last year I didn’t see any good roses locally at the big box stores but this year seems to be all different

  • 4 years ago

    Wow Diane, I had no idea that you didn't purposely buy WBY. What luck that it turned out so well for you!