I doubt they'll be dead sticks. I've seen worse.
The roses from GVR that are raised by J&P will probably be no better than the ones you get from J&P, though.
I wonder whether some of the roses I got at GVR that were grown at J&P were actually grown on fortuniana rootstock. The rootstock on Sunsprite was very fine and hairlike - very different from the thick Dr Huey roots. That's probably not a problem for me in zone 7, but it might be a problem in a colder zone. I notice that Sunsprite was much quicker to break dormancy than other roses in the sam order. And that might prove to be a problem here. Dr H. seems to delay the setting of leaves until a rose is a little safer from our local yo-yo weather, here. In any case, one can know which rootstock one is getting at J&P, but it's not called out on the GVR site. I also worry that those fine filaments might dry out faster than DrH rootstock.
Thanks for the tip about OLdG! I need to get down to HD and Lowes and see what's there. Too much of my stuff I pay a premium for to get by mail order. It used to be I bought mail order to get better descriptions of what I was planting. But I now have enough experience that I recognize much of what I see at a big box store.
According to HMF Our Lady of Guadalupe was bred by Zary of J&P and is known in the trade as JACveryp which is a J&P moniker
http://www.helpmefind.com/rose.... The rose you bought was probably raised by J&P for HD, since it's still under patent protection. I'm glad to know it did well. There's something about those silvery pink flowers that just seems right.
