totally WOW. Lucky...

Lucky - Yes! But wait till I receive the bill! Shipping alone for 1 box is like $25 plus the price of the rose(s). I'll starve myself for a week or two.

Here's Marchioness of Londonderry - freshly dug, probably been in their garden since the beginning.

Royal Ascot - another freshly dug. Look at the size of those roots.


And the rest - Bonita Renaissance (right) 5-gal size, Mme Cordier and Ammonit - 2-gal size.

They're currently soaking in a solution of Superthrive and seaweed, dug the holes this AM and will go in the ground tomorrow.

holy guacamole. Nice!!! Those are gonna be some spectacular flowers!! You're so lucky!! :D

Three more big, big boxes arrived today, each containing just one rose: Alleluia, Cajun Spice, and Classic Beauty.

how fun for you !!! no boxes for me this year there going to put city water in so I have to save my pennies for the hook up

Do you want or have to accept city water?

well you have to pay for it rather you hook up to it or not its been a long fight they won (money people) I live on Sanford lake and they said it would be "GOOD" for us ya right it raised my land taxes 500.00 a year !!!!!
Gloria

ouch... ouchie ouch. Poor Gloria.. don't you just love how you have no choice in these matters!

I get so mad about things you have no control over you know money talks theres a lot of people that cant pay there taxes around here I feel so sorry for them a lot of people will be moveing I think that was the plane all along there all ways saying we need to raise our tax base

Five more boxes today, all but one containing just one rose. One contained two.

Carmel Sunset, Lavender Lady, Madame Dieudonne, Michele Meilland, Mikado, and Sultry

Zuzu - I know it's none of my business, but how much did these cost you? That way I can tell DH that he's getting off cheap.

Nothing yet, Toni. I'll let you know when I get billed. I think they're $29 each and some are so heavy that the postage is about $15 even within the state of California. I think I'll qualify for a hefty discount.

The price per rose might sound high, but it's less than double the price of a little band rose that might or might not survive, and even if it were to survive, it would take at least 20 years to get this big. These are huge, huge roses and most (or all) of them are grafted, so they're absolutely ideal.

Most of them don't fit in the 5-gallon gopher cages or even the 15-gallon cages. Luckily, some still have the original tags from Hortico, so the gophers won't be interested in those anyway because they're grafted on Multiflora.

Zuzu is right! Received one box again yesterday - Marchesa Boccella. At $29 plus shipping, it is so worth the price.

Actually, I think that $29 & shipping for those monsters is a STEAL!!!

Only one box in the mail today, containing Dreamward.

Your mail deliveries sound A LOT more interesting than mine. - Pretty exciting!

Three more boxes today, three more roses: Kiss of Fire, Moody Dream, and France Libre.

Dreamward is definitely dreamy: http://www.helpmefind.com/rose...
Kiss of Fire is pretty aptly named: http://www.helpmefind.com/rose...
However, Moody Dream is not aptly named... I was thinking something mroe .. darker? http://www.helpmefind.com/rose...
But I just may have to steal this France Libre!! http://www.helpmefind.com/rose...

Moody Dream is something I've wanted for many, many years. It's a hand-painted McGredy rose in mauve. It used to be available at a lot of places, but that was before I got interested in hand-painted roses 5 or 6 years ago.

I ordered France Libre for 3 or 4 years in a row from Hortico, but they never had it in stock. Hortico called it Summer Sunset and it sounded like the ideal rose for my garden because I have at least 20 roses with "summer" or "sunset" in their names. This one actually had both!!!!

it's gorgeous. You're lucky.