Years ago, I kept detailed spreadsheets on all my roses, daylilies, and iris. I evaluated each one twice yearly. When my computer crashed, I lost my list. A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon making a new spreadsheet for the roses. I was totally shocked to find I grow exactly 500 roses. I have 26 new ones ordered, and most likely I'll be removing a few of my one cane wonders. The own root hybrid teas are slow growers, but the worst are the hybrid teas that I bought from local nurseries. For some reason, I do much much better with bare root roses. It may be that the roses don't get hardened off properly after I buy them. I'm looking forward to the new bare roots grafted on multiflora. They'll get here tomorrow!!
our daytime temps are still in 50s and 60s, but nighttime temps are near freezing. I'm going to plant them in the ground.
The ones I ordered from Regan are own root, bare root for the most part. They won't arrive until late March.
