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gemini_sage said:
So now, I get to order some new Roses! 
Getting my Palatine order in first, as they do sell out of many selections quickly, and considering several from Chamblees. After a few years of not considering Roses, it seems the number of sources for grafted plants has dwindled. Where is everyone ordering bare root Roses from these days?
Congrats on eradicating one of the scariest banes of rose cultivation, Neal!
I like to buy roses from Palatine. I like their selection, I like that they will ship second-day-air to me (for a small fortune). I like that the roses arrive in really excellent condition.
I placed an order with Edmunds this year and I think most of the roses will survive. I've been a maniac about watering them, and I think I had to be. Olympiad's canes are dead down to the bud union; and, I think were so when I took delivery. One or two others in the order were in similar condition and will not make it.
I placed an order in early March with J&P just to find out if their reputation has had reason to change. No roses. No updates. No reply to my complaint e-mail. No apology. No refund.
Last year I ordered from Garden Valley and the roses arrived in mid January - during the two weeks of the year when the ground is frozen! Planting season here starts the second week of March. Somehow I always miss the Regan Roses ordering season. As luck would have it the only order I placed with them arrived at the start of three weeks of freezing rainy weather -- it never does that here -- and I did not get them in the ground before they had all dried up like autumn leaves.
I have had some measure of good luck buying roses from David Austin Roses. Their roses are pruned a little more severely than Edmunds, but they are up and running much faster, IME. The selection of HT roses is pretty limited; but they are mostly safe choices. In one order I found that I got slightly better roses by ordering over the phone in early January and giving them a full nine yard truckload full of grief about their failure to reliably deliver big, healthy, viable roses in my previous order; did not do that last time and was only slightly disappointed.
I still order a lot of roses from Antique Rose Emporium. I like that their selections survive my gardening ministrations (or severe lack thereof) better than most. I was a little disappointed in my Fall 2016 deliveries; but the ten that arrived this spring were fully developed gallons where all the soil was held together by roots, but there was no evidence of the plants being rootbound. Nice size canes for own root roses. All are showing timely leaf development over all the canes - an unusually good outcome, IME.
