Everyone I got from Palatine did wonderfully. Stephen's Big Purple finally FINALLY has a single bud on it, I just had to look at my old invoice to see what the other rose is as it never did anything. But I'm not going to blame the roses.. they all came in gorgeously. I'm placing 100% of the blame on me and my ineptitude. I didn't water, so the only roses that did anything were the roses in the front that either I watered, or got inadvertently watered from the neighbors. I put 3 of the 4 I'd gotten this year in the back on the west side of my house, and only Brillant is blooming nicely. Stephen's has 1 bud, Laguna Freelander never blossomed or produced any buds. Blue Bayou, which was the only one from Palatine to go in the front, has blossomed 4 times this year and I absolutely love that rose.
