We are going to be at the Carlsbad By the Sea Resort -- a hotel that is next to LegoLand -- and we have arranged for special room rates (code is CCRS AUCTION, when booking). The first day will be seminars and talks about the roses -- by hybridizers and other experts between 1 p.m. Saturday and into the evening, with a break for dinner. Speakers include Jeri Jennings, Burling Leong, Ping Lim, Robert Martin, Cheryl Malone (from Heirloom Roses in Portland OR) and Keith Zary. The second day -- Sunday -- is the actual auction. The schedule for the speakers is on the website, here.

As before, there will also be internet bidding through our society members, who will act as proxies for long distance bidders at our live event. Internet bidding details are here.

Could you please talk up this event whenever you come across rosie people that might like a weekend in SoCal, and please direct people to our website, which is www.ccrsauction.com/. As usual (for those of you that have ever been to one of our auctions), we will have roses that can be purchased no where else on the face of the earth. This year we again have a crazy and unique collection of roses.

Some of the highlights of the roses available this year are these:
Simsalabim -- a sport of Abracadabra, with reverse striping (maroon on yellow instead of yellow on maroon).
Frankie -- a grafted plant on Fortuniana rootstock.
Dina Gee -- grafted on Fortuniana rootstock.
Pacific Celebration --grafted on Fortuniana.
Lavender Spoon -- grafted on Pink Clouds.
Most Unusual Day -- you're never going to see this for sale anywhere else -- a truly unique Ralph Moore creation. We can't strike it to save our lives, but we got a grafted plant on multiflora rootstock to sell.
Eyes For You -- a particularly pretty hulthemia that has not been released in the U.S.
Dahlia Rose -- a favorite of mine, but tough to grow and to strike -- needs TLC.
Graceland -- a ruffly yellow very floriforous hybrid tea that you will likely never see again, as none of us can get it to strike. This year we got a grafted plant on multiflora rootstock to sell.
Peggy T -- grafted on Pink Clouds -- which is one of the winningest singles in the mini field. When entered, it wins.
Super Green -- the greenest of the green-petaled roses.
Rosa Minutifolia -- a rare desert rose that goes dormant in the summer, or whenever you stop watering it.
Golden Zest -- who can resist a smelly yellow? Tends to win consistently in the fragrance classes.
Takao -- this is one of the prettiest orange and yellow roses out there, and if you spray (and spray you must as it does also like its mildew), then you will grow to love this one.
Dona Martin -- the mauvish pink sport of Randy Scott.
Tiger Tail -- orange and white striped rose
Stranger -- A mauve and white stripe from the florist trade that is otherwise not on the market.
Willie Winkie -- micro-mini that makes very cute sprays
Oui -- hard-to-get micro-mini in high demand
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Here are the links to the full rose lists that will be available, and yes, we will also be doing internet bidding again this year. But be forewarned that it is much better to show up yourselves than to do it via the internet, because there is always some great rose that does not attract anyone else's attention and can be stolen quite cheap. You just have to do your research through the lists before you get there so that you recognize it when it happens.
Live Auction Rose List
Silent Auction Rose List

Anyway, it should be a great event this year, and we would like all of you to come, and to bring as many other rosie people as you can. Again, please help us get the word out. And come! The beach is great in November! The crowds are gone and you get it to yourself, almost.

Kathy Strong
KathyStrong@Gmail.com

Don't know who it was that said no before, but I think they must have been out of line.

I know you grow a lot of neat roses, and we'd be really happy to be able to offer one or more of them.

Thank you,

Kathy Strong

Kathy - Can you still bid for me?

And I have contacted Trospero, and he has agreed to donate some of the very newest of his newly registered varieties, so that is something else for you all to look forward to. Yahoo and THANK YOU!

More to come on that, or Trospero, if you are reading this, please give us all a rundown on what's included here.

Melissa

Sometimes we try to say "non-shippable" as to some roses, but really, when push comes to shove, we ship anything if the highest bidder needs it to be shipped. But we then have to bare-root it, and sometime severely prune it also So bid away.

We only ship, however, in the U.S.

Kathy

We now have three new introductions from Paul Barden to offer you in this years auction. Check these out:

Dakota Redwing
Castle Bravo
Dominic Sunset

Links to the HMF listings for these roses are on the Live Auction List. There are also many other new additions from the last time you looked at the auction lists, most probably -- these lists is always a work in progress, right up to a week before the auction date.

Kathy

Next weekend, folks . . .

Dakota Redwing
Castle Bravo
Dominic Sunset "

It may be of interest to know that all three of these new varieties is not yet available in commerce; these plants are pre-release donations. The buyer will be the first to grow these new roses :-)

I was sent the Auction Bidding lists, there are many more roses on the list, I hope you all take a look.

(I had my form filled out....then the sons car broke down)

And thank you again to Trospero for the pre-release donations!

Kathy

I am in Santa Barbara, it is a long SLOW drive through LA to get there. Or an $80 round trip train ride (bet I would not have to share a row with a box full of roses in my lap)

If there's something that you want to bid on and the form is wrong -- just add it. We'll figure it out when we get the form, and if we can't we'll shoot you a note to ask.

Kathy

Go for it, Beth. Your garden probably also has a few that would be the sole survivors of a variety. Let me know if you think any are "worthy" and you want to give us some bud wood to get a few more going to sell.

Saving worthy but undistributed roses from extinction is what we are all about. I can't tell you how many times we have gotten rare varieties going, only to find out the source of our plant had died from some stupid mistake by someone somewhere (usually a public garden) and then we were able to replace their plant with something we grew from it.

Thanks,
Kathy

I do have a lot of roses that are on the brink of extinction. I started sending some to Cliff a few yrs ago for him to propagate, but then he had to close up. One was JEAN DU TILLEUX, which a customer of his had asked for. He obviously was able to get it going, because Heirloom now has it. Yeah, I really should go thru my list and see what needs to get out there. If you would like to have some budwood, and can get them going, I'd be happy to send some cuttings out. I might also try the burrito method of starting them myself too. I've been experimenting with doing the florist roses that way, and it seems to work so far. I just have to get the potting-up part perfected. Need to get grow lights I think.

Ya know, LAVANDE is a wonderful rose too. It blows pretty fast, but it's still a beautiful bloom even so.

I don't have all the details yet, but I know Simsalabim went as a bargain this year, compared with years passed. That one was around $75, if I recall correctly. Highest price roses were Anvil Sparks and Blue Bell (see, ya just never know!), both of which were in the silent auction.

Did you guys sell everything?

I would have to be paid huge amounts of money to grow that horror....and even then, it would be hidden behind the garbage bins.
Are stripey roses going through some sort of revival in the US? There are usually a few about in the UK but nothing like the ones across the Atlantic?

There really is no accounting for taste, hey?

I would have to be paid huge amounts of money to grow that horror....and even then, it would be hidden behind the garbage bins.
Are stripey roses going through some sort of revival in the US? There are usually a few about in the UK but nothing like the ones across the Atlantic?

There really is no accounting for taste, hey?

Hey Mike, I thought you already got POLO CLUB? Hope you have better luck with yours. Mine is barely alive. Maybe I should dig it out and pot it up. It hasn't grown or done anything for yrs! My soil is horrible volcanic clay. Or maybe if I dumped a bunch of manure and mulch on it it might help. You'll love it tho. The few blooms I got off it a few yrs ago were spectacular!

The rose that I've lost and would really LOVE to find again was Sue Lawley. Anyone grow it?