Home Depot has an online sign up which emails coupons. They mail coupons as well. Lowe's usually honors Home Depot coupons, if you prefer Lowe's. If you see a rose you like at a fair price in a store - especially if it is on sale- why not try it. Lots of floribundas are own root. You can stir up the dirt a little and check for a graft. It will be near the soil surface if there is one. (I wish that companies would mark if roses were own root or grafted and the root stock. Maybe if enough people make a mess looking for grafts they will start marking them) Stores also start running great sales on plants around Fourth of July. Save the pot and the receipt because they take returns (up to a year I think, so if it doesn't come back in the spring, you can get another one).
Most mail order own root roses are tiny. It could take them a year or two to get as big as the roses in the stores.
I got Wildeve in a pot at Walmart. I haven't seen an Austin rose there since, but i keep looking!
Have you looked at Gruss An Aachen (I think that is the spelling) it is an antique rose with a habit like the floribundas. The fairy is a famous pink polyantha. Melva from this group sells own root antique roses. She is a super nice person, also!
Lots of the mail order companies are running super sales right now. Our start of season is their end of season, go figure. Anyway, the own root roses from Edmunds or J&P will be bigger plants than the ones from Chamblees. Bigger isn't always better of course. Edmunds states on their website if the rose is own root or grafted. They also carry some explorer and some Radler roses and lots of Kordes roses.
What about this one? Kordes elegant Fairy Tale (it is grafted, but maybe the color you want and someone else may carry it OR or on hardy root stock)
https://www.edmundsroses.com/d...
At some point, I am going to see or try this rose - Radler's fragrant white shrub rose OR
https://www.edmundsroses.com/d...
They have Honey Sweet (sold out) and Carefree Celebration own root, Neither are pink. These are two of the best performers in my garden. My Honey Sweet was from Chamblees and CC from a friend.
While on the Edmunds site, I clicked the "new Kordes roses" button. This one looks like a beauty - Jasmina, a pale pink climbing rose. Chamblees has quite a few Kordes roses own root. I noticed that both Chamblees and Edmunds carry the lion's rose (one on my wishlist) Zuzu (I think) and some other people on helpmefind stated that the Kordes fairytale roses do better for them grafted.
No new roses for me until I move and plant my old roses. I told the landlord that I like to garden and have a few plants. An understatement.
