Cindi - That's what I'm doing.. having them ship me my roses in November too. I only received one "rose" from Edmunds.. and it was SUCH a pathetic tiny little thing that was far worse than any bodybag rose I'd ever bought! It was DOA... so much for Music Box. I demanded a refund as they'd already charged my card for the 3 roses I'd ordered, but Twilight Zone & the other one .. can't remember now.. was backordered for months. Never again will I order from Edmunds... especially since Palatine sends such GORGEOUS roses! What I'm going to do is use my planter pots that I cut the bottoms off, put those around the tips of the canes I'll have sticking out of the ground (I'm burying them about 2' deep), and then putting mulch inside the planter pot so they're 100% covered until next spring. Once I'm sure that the winter's over, then I'll pull away *some* of the mulch, but I will not remove the planter pot until after Mother's day. That's what I did with the two roses I got from England and they're some of my biggest, healthiest roses I have. I've already dug the holes and will be putting in topsoil in those holes and not native dirt ("crap").
