I treat Heirloom as a supplier of last resort, and have not bought from them for more than a decade. Although some of the roses that did best for me in NJ came from Heirloom - Sea Foam and Fred Loads - my batting average with their roses was about 14%. Seven of eight died in the first year. Almost all of them were tiny, spindly, barely-rooted cuttings which don't stand a chance in the garden. So the only logical thing to do is pot them. In the garden they get nibbled to death; but in pots the potting soil is said to burn their fragile, undeveloped roots. Either way they die and you pay for a rose you don't have. And Heirloom will not replace it.
