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I thought/hoped that buying from a nursery so close to my own geographical location would be good. So, 3 years ago I placed a substantial order with this nursery. Although I live in northern MI, I grow close to 100 varieties of roses; I give presentations on growing roses here to local gardening and Master Gardener groups.
I have been SO disappointed with the stock from Edmund's. Two of the roses in my original order failed outright -- never grew. One has reverted to Huey rootstock, and I will replace it next year, but NOT with anything from Edmund's. My advice? If you are not sure who to buy from, go to David Austin first off, then there are other suppliers depending on your area -- but do NOT expect good quality stock from Edmund's.
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This is available own-root from NC Roseland.
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14 MAY 06 by
LaurenL
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Wonderful -- I much prefer own-root when I can get it. Who and where is NC Roseland? I can't find them listed.
edit: I did find NC Roseland. :-) Thanks for the lead. They currently list French Lace among their roses, but not Fragrant Lace. I'll check into it!
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We've added Roseland (in North Carolina) to the list of suppliers but note for the future, you can search for part of a name. In this case using the name contains option and searching for "Roseland" would have listed this nursery for you.
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Please let us know what you find out so we can update the site accordingly, as it seems we may have this rose listed for Roseland in error now. We await your response.
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Sundance appears to be true to its color class in that it is tender. It was frozen to the ground during a normal zone 6a Winter. It did come back, though it isn't doing as well as it did last year. If I hadn't placed the graft deep when it was planted, I doubt it would have survived. It does produce non fading lovely yellow blooms kissed with red.
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25 MAR 06 by
LaurenL
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Wendy, did you do any winter covering?
I live in a (marginal) Zone 5, but have had roses rated up to Zone 7 survive my winters -- but, I do a lot of winter protection!
I'm thinking about this rose, and wondering if it will work with protection.
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25 MAR 06 by
Wendy C
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In addition to seating the graft deep the roses are mounded with straw. I know there are more extreme wintering methods. I chose to grow hardier roses. I've got a number of zone 7 rated roses here that do just fine. Some of them winter better than the hardy roses. smile
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