I was wondering if anyone else had this experience with Tractor Supply's roses.

I bought two: Reine des Violettes & Marchesa Bocella. Just because nobody else here sold OGRs in body bags.

Well, neither was true to the label. The Reine is a Gold Medal, while Marchesa is a dark pink HT (maybe the same variety you got.) And they're both virused. But both are husky plants covered with flowers at the moment, so I don't feel bereft. For what it's worth, I bought 15 body bags this spring from other stores (at $3 each) and none of those were mislabeled. So Tractor Supply (or its supplier) really deserves the Hall of Shame award. Buyer beware.

Any time you buy these mass produced, very inexpensive roses from ANY big box type store you run the risk of getting A. mislabels, B. virused and C. poor quality, usually grade 2 or worse, roses that will need to be babied along and will possibly just die on you. If you know all that going in and are willing to take your chances they're a bargain. I do it all the time myself but I know all of the above and accept what I get. Sometimes it's just fun to see what you actually will end up with, lol!

LOL. Body bagged roses are truly "grab bags" these days. It's now my conclusion that you never know what you're gonna get, EXCEPT that it's NOT going to be the rose pictured and named on the label.

Just for kicks (and because [a] hope springs eternal, and [b] because I'm a glutton for punishment], each year I buy a bagged 'Oldtimer' from either WalMart or Lowe's. This year when I unbagged my Lowe's purchase I found a metal tag that read 'Pink Double Knock Out'. The tag wasn't wired to a cane, it was simply loose within the bag.

Very curious, I potted the thing, waited, and watched as the heavily waxed canes turned first to a rich mahogany red/brown, then to a progressively darkening gray, culminating finally into terminal ebony.

I'm still grieving the possibility that I might actually have had the great good fortune to have copped a 'Pink Double Knock Out" for just cents over 3 bucks. Arghhh . . .

I bought 5 body bag roses at Walmart this past spring for $4.67 each. Although they have not been growing gangbusters, they are growing albeit slowly. They each have sent up at least one bloom so far and I found that all of them were properly labeled. What I found was that the root mass of these roses were about 1/3 the size of the rose canes. I guess you get what you pay for.