Roses are very easy for me. Before I got into roses I used to think they were too hard to grow but thats not what I think now. They do need lots of attention but no big deal for me.
Some tubers I do better than others. I remember one year buying lots of canna tubers, all locally and doing a mass planting (three rows) in my backyard. I planted them directly and they all came up wonderfully.
I used to buy afew dahlia tubers locally also and had so-so results. The past few years I switched and bought my tubers from the place I was buying lily bulbs from each spring, Van Bourgondien Wholesale.
Mostly they just did not grow at all. You know when you buy packaged locally you can pick thru the packs until you see some starting to grow alittle. I used to buy those. But my mail order tubers really didn't want to start growing. I really don't think I planted them out too early. I would wait for the soil to warm up. Now that I think on it, I don't remember any lately having sprouts before planting.
Sometimes the slugs cut a main stem (or was it cutworms?) just after sprounting and then that dahlia was a gonner. If that didn't happen they grew and flowered and did well. I guess the problem is at the very beginning stages in my growing.
