Hi folks

There's already a post about this on the Antique Roses forum, but not everyone checks both forums. Vintage is selling out some very small numbers of unique roses and you'll want to catch them now if you can, since they're (sadly) going out of business. The roses seem to have made it up to their website at www.vintageroses.com, so if you don't see something from the list below on the "available" list it might mean that someone else beat you to the one or two roses available of that variety. If it's available, you can order it through usual web orders and they have great products.

Let us know if you need any enabling! I have an embarrassing number of these roses so I'll list a few I highly recommend:

Senegal - a great hardy TRULY dark red climber - one of the few that's actually as burgundy as billed. Does great in zone 5 and I have it weaving among paler climbers

Brown Velvet - a surprisingly hardy in zone 5 russet rose, not all that frequent a bloomer for me but great color even in heat

Lili Marlene - a stunningly red rose - no blue to this one at all - and it stays small for me in my zone

Marchesa Boccella - a very reliable rose that's a great introduction to old garden roses - light pink and fluffy and pretty tall for me, seems to be hardy and healthy in a variety of locations

Karl Herbst - I got this one from Vintage a year or two ago and it has really impressed me with its vigor and true red color. It wants to bloom a lot even as a young HT rose, and looks to be at least 4-5 feet tall

Neptune - a great option for a lavender - not quite as hardy & healthy as Poseidon but nowhere near the wimps most lavenders are

Nigrette - the single darkest burgundy rose I've ever seen, actually earns the title of nearly black. A totally scrawny little bush and needs lots of food, but it blooms fairly often and is at least root hardy for me in zone 5

Patsy Cline - to die for white rose with pink edges. I'm hoping mine I bought from Vintage last year has weathered the winter, or I'm going to kick myself for not ordering a replacement

Spiced Coffee - a terrific mauvy-russet edge on whitish base rose that thrives in my zone 4 pocket of my yard, Frequent fluffly blooms on a healthy plant for me.

Twice in a Blue Moon, Shi-Un - not as hardy or healthy as Neptune but both have survived in less than ideal locations for me in zone 5

Illusion - one of the most reliable and constantly blooming climbers for me, equivalent to Quadra. No dieback and steady healthy crimson blooms on a sturdy climber. Great for zone 5 and I think even zone 4

Cynthia

B Meteor 1
ChCl Setina 1
D Bella Donna 1
D Coralie 1
E Jeannie Deans 1
Fl Apache Tears VID 1
Fl Brown Velvet 1
FL Camille Pissaro 1
Fl Centenaire de Lourdes 1
Fl Cherish 1
Fl Confetti VID 1
Fl Europeana 1
Fl Fred Loads 1
Fl Golden Garnette VID 1
Fl Grey Dawn 1
Fl Ivory Triumph 1
Fl Lavender Pinocchio 3
Fl Lilac Dawn 1
Fl Lili Marl�ne 2
Fl Norwich Castle 1
Fl Orangeade 1
Fl Peppermint Twist 2
Fl Pinocchio VID 1
Fl Playboy 2
Fl Purple Tiger 1
Fl Sherry 1
Fl Spartan 1
Fl Sunsprite 1
Fl White Spray 2
FlCl Goldilocks, Climbing 1
FlCl Heidelberg 1
G Agatha Francofurtana 1
G Arlequin 1
G Belle Herminie 2
G Charles De Mills 1
G Georges Vibert 1
G L'Ing�nue 1
G La Belle Sultane 1
G Sultane Favorite 1
HB "California Malton" 1
HB Mme. Lauriol de Barny 1
HM Heinrich Conrad Soth 1
HM Inspektor Blohm 1
HM Kathleen 1
HM Pax 1
HM Plaisanterie 1
HM Thisbe 1
HM Verdi 2
HP Clio 1
HP Marchesa Boccella 1
HP Souvenir du Dr. Jamain 1
HP Ulrich Brunner, Fils 1
HT American Heritage VID 1
HT Baronne Edmond de Rothschild 1
HT Blithe Spirit 1
HT Bob Hope VID 1
HT British Queen 1
HT Broadway 1 HT Calico 1
HT Charles de Gaulle 1
HT Chivalry 3
HT Chrysler Imperial 1
HT Colour Wonder VID 1
HT Crimson Glory VID 1
HT Ellen Willmott 1
HT Ethel Sanday 1
HT Frances Ashton 1
HT Futura 1
HT Harry Wheatcroft 2
HT Helen Traubel VID 2
HT Helmut Schmidt VID 1
HT High Esteem 1
HT John F. Kennedy VID 1
HT Josephine Bruce 2
HT Julia's Rose 1
HT Karl Herbst 1
HT Katherine T. Marshall 1
HT Kitchener of Khartoum 1
HT Lady Elgin VID 1
HT Macho Man 2
HT Maria Callas VID 2
HT Mexicana 1
HT Mr. Lincoln VID 1
HT Neptune 1
HT Nigrette 3
HT Nocturne VID 1
HT Oldtimer VID 3
HT Olympiad (1931) 1
HT Padre 1
HT Panorama 1
HT Patsy Cline VID 1
HT Peach Beauty VID 2
HT Polynesian Sunset 1
HT Pres. Herbert Hoover 1
HT Rose Gaujard 1
HT Royal Airforce 1
HT Saint-Exupery 1
HT Saturnia 1
HT Seashell VID 1
HT Shi-Un 1
HT Silver Spoon 3
HT Smoky VID 3
HT Spiced Coffee 1
HT Stephen's Big Purple 2
HT Swarthmore VID 1
HT Talisman 2
HT Tea Time 2
HT Texas Centennial 1
HT Thanksgiving 1
HT Tropicana VID 1
HT Twice in a Blue Moon 2
HT Typhoo Tea 1
HT White Prince 1
HT Yellow Talisman 1
HTCl Amy Johnson 1
HTCl First Prize, Climbing VID 1
HTCl General MacArthur, Climbing 1
HTCl Red Talisman, Climbing 1
HTCl S�n�gal 1
HTCl W. Freeland Kendrick 2
LCl Coral Dawn 1
LCl Crimson Cascade 1
LCl Doubloons VID 1
LCl High Noon 1
LCl JACclam (aka America�) 1
LCl Jactan 3
LCl Joseph's Coat VI 2
LCl Rosendorf Schmitshausen 1
LCl Royal Sunset 1
LCl Sombreuil 5
LCl Swan Lake 1
LCl Tempo VID 1
LCl William Baffin 2
M Crimson Globe 1
M Melanie Waldor 1
M Mme. Louis L�v�que 1
M Robert L�opold 1
M Salet 1
Min Cinderella 1
Min Janice 1
Min Oakington Ruby 1
N Jacques Amiot 1
N "Lingo Musk" 1
N Narrow Water 1
Pol Sneprinsesse 1
PolCl Clotilde Soupert, Cli 1
PolCl Phyllis Bide 2
R Dr. Huey VID 4
R Fr�ulein Octavia Hesse 1
R Purity 1
Rug Rosa rugosa X Rosa nipponica 1
S Illusion 1
S Jazz Club 1
S Rosy Cushion 4
S/Aus Chaucer 1
S/Aus (Constance Spry� aka) AUStance 1
S/Aus (Fair Bianca� aka) AUSca 1
S/AUS John Clare 6
S/Aus Red Coat 1
Sp Rosa cinnamomea plena 1
Sp Rosa corymbifera 1
Sp Rosa laevigata 1
Sp Rosa palustris scandens 1
T "Hubner Plot Tea" 1
TN Alister Stella Gray 2
TN Cr�puscule 2
TN Elie Beauvilain 1
TN R�ve d'Or 2