Sue sent me a link to a Craig's List notice about roses for sale in Sonoma. The ad said there were more than 4,000 roses for $3.99 each, but the price was even lower if you were buying in quantity -- all the way down to $3 if you bought enough of them.
So, Fallon and I couldn't resist and we drove to Sonoma today to buy some of these roses. OMG -- thousands and thousands of perfectly shaped and incredibly healthy J&P roses, and not one was named. No tags, no labels, no clue. The only ones that were in bloom were a hundred or so Icebergs, but we didn't need any of them.
The guy had bought 12,000 unlabeled roses from J&P and he had no trouble selling most of them while they were in bloom, but now they're in between flushes. There were a lot of buds on them, though, so we might try again next Monday.
