La Rubanée
Comtesse du Cayla
Dominie Sampson
Golden Wings
Pink Soupert
Tip-Top
“Charles Walker's Mignonette”
La Sylphide
Mme. Antoine Mari
Goethe
Mme. Louis Lévêque
Superb Tuscan

When I got my roses they sent a note sayin all their Mme. Antoine Mari's had perished, so I had to send a replacement. I was a little dissapointed in a couple of the roses. One was barely rooted, another was really tiny, microscopic, and on another one all the leaves were crispy it was needing water so bad. :( All were bone dry on arrival though. I was a little disapointed in the quality after all the good things said about them. I sent a email with no response so far. I hope everyone else's order's came to them fine. I was kinda wondering if anyone else experienced this. Just in case someone thinks I am I'm not trying to say nothing bad about them. Was just curious if anyone else received similar is all. The rest of my roses were great besides being dry, some even had blooms on them! Which was a nice surprise! I took pics of them, but in the pictures they look better then in real, so I think they should all be fine, the only one I'm kinda worried about is the one with the crispy leaves, I even had to cut some stem off because it was drying out badly.

My second order arrived last week, most looked ok except for a teeny tiny Pasadena Tournament CL and one of the gallicas (I can't remember which one without looking, they all have French names haha) . Since then, the gallica I can't remember the name of and one of the other hybrid chinas I ordered dried up and died :( I didn't say anything about them, because I know they;re not available anymore anyway. Maybe they'll survive, but they've pretty much turned completely brown. I did contact Gregg about two roses they were out of last minute, and I was sent the same alternate for both, so they are sending me a replacement in my last order shipping in June. They're great to work with and are happy to correct anything, I just chose not to ask for replacements for the two that aren't going to make it.

Tammy

Ingrid

One of my bands from them last year was a tea-noisette that looked like a short dried up brown stick with a very small shoot coming off it when it came, but it ended up sending out a lovely set of canes and other than not blooming was one of the best performing bands I got last year!

The Lemon Spice from another source that was dried out and had gotten shaken out of its soil and free swimming in the box is making a comeback. I kept it in the filtered sun under a tree while it slowly shed its leaves and made new growth from buds on the little cane. Now it has some true leaves and is getting morning sun. I was dipping it upside down in weak seaweed extract solution every week but not putting anything on the roots but straight bottled water. It's the only plant left in a band pot, the others have moved up to gallon pots.

I root lots of roses, and that treatment can make all the difference between a weak-rooted rose making it or not.

Kathy

Here's what I have coming in my final order (I have a thing for Gene Boerner's roses!!)
Beau Narcisse
Karlsruhe
Apricot Glow
Garisenda
Alba Foliacea
Fancy Talk
Geisha
Pink Bountiful
Yellow Cushion
Dame Edith Helen
Gay Princess
Scharlachglut
Dr. Rouges
Christine Wright
Glenn Dale
La Fraicheur
Hawaiian Delight
Poppy
Jiminy Cricket
Micrugosa Alba

I feel as though I should save the box or something silly to commemorate all the joy that has come my way from this great nursery. A great deal of my rose education as well as my rose garden can be attributed to their informative and seductive website. I don't like to think of life "without".

The Duchesse came out of the box with a bloom--the sassy thing--which is now in a tiny vase on my window sill. Not to be outdone I had to pinched 3 buds off Mrs. Cross and left one--I can't resist! I left one bud on Joe's wife, too. They are all about 9" with Mlle de Sombreuil most resembling a stick, although when I potted them up she had the most roots so no worries.

All in all I'm very happy.

My order (with the alternates subbed) was:
Mme. Alfred Carriere
La Rubanée
Duplex
Rosa corymbifera
Rosa gentiliana
Mme. Berkeley
Beau Narcisse
Elegant Gallica
Rosa Helenae (my favorite name in this group, not sure why)

Here's a pic of the group, Beau Narcisse is the biggy in the back.

I ordered:
Florence Bowers Pink Tea (how could I not-sure hope they have one left)

Mme Berkeley

Morey's Pink

Sombreuil

and Alternates of
Alister Stella Gray
Blush Noisette

And boy was it hard to pick! I missed many that I really wanted, the found roses, but hoping in June there will be a list of what is left and needs homes.

I got quite teary. I just discovered old roses three years ago. Now our huge asset out West is closed. Sometimes in the intervening days, I torture myself by getting out Gregg's sumptuous catalog, and mewling over all I will never have.

Erica