Seaside, I don't know. My impression from some years ago is that they were a good nursery, with a dramatic offering of warm climate roses, but I never bought from them and didn't follow what was going on with them.

I hope someone else can help you.

Thank you Melissa!

Coincidentally, I have just received a reply to my latest email to them, and it's not good news. They are closed. Very sad indeed, they had a fabulous selection with some very rare roses.

I'm sorry to hear that. I had heard good things about them, and how odd it is that nurseries carrying warm climate old roses seem rare in the Mediterranean area. I have few Teas and Chinas because I have so few places with adequate soil to put them--my climate is fine--and I killed quite a few finding this out--but oh, they're wonderful roses.

We can hope that someone will pick up the torch. I don't know whether economic conditions did S'Orrosa in, or there was some other reason. Sometimes an owner retires, which I think was the case of the excellent La Campanella in the Padova area: I don't know whether the new owners have continued in the same spirit as before. We do need a few determined and mildly visionary nursery people to keep these roses available.

I wonder also whether being able to water roses in a commercial nursery adequately would be a problem these days. Anyone growing a crop of any type is at the mercy of climate change, and I imagine a plant being grown in a pot would be especially vulnerable.

...not to mention the sad fact that here in Italy, summers just get worse and worse,more and more atrociously hot,drier and drier. For the past 3 years, each summer has been hotter than the one before; in this one we had temperatures close to 100 degrees F for a long time, then a wild dip in the beginning of August that caused me and my young roses to get sick. People have stopped trying to have an "orto" (veggie plot),formerly the delight of many older people in particular. So it wouldn't surprise me in the least to hear that nurseries specializing in roses have fewer clients. Italy just doesn't have a Mediterranean climate any more.

It's a shame that S'orrosa is closed now-I've never ordered from them but hoped to do so eventually. But for me it's probably just as well. In spite of all my extremely hard work and dedication this past summer, every time I go out to my land I see signs of yet another young rose growing backwards. The weather forecast is devastating: summer heat and no real rain for another 3 weeks.

La Campanella WAS good indeed...