.... most of their reviews are about Austins, generally the newer ones - I'm not sure they've tried that many - and they have a nice site with glossy photos, well written descriptions which sound authoritative and comprehensive, but as I pointed out to them elsewhere on the web some time ago, it's actually rather pointless to review a rose, especially an Austin in its first year, which is really what they do...
..they may be written with an American audience more in mind, I think the reviewers are Americans living in UK, as by the time they get these roses, they are 2 years old already, so they may add to this as time goes on..
...I expect it will be released in the States, otherwise they might have to bring forward something else, as I'm not sure The Country Parson will be made available there being a spinosissima hybrid that is particularly difficult to propagate in sufficient numbers.. they did not release Sir Walter Scott in the U.S. and apart from colour, it's a very similar rose..
I think they have a potential problem. When they used to introduce three roses every year here, they sometimes introduced only two of them in the US, two years later. But now when they only have two new roses every year, what are they going to do if both prove to be unsuitable for most of the American climates (or as a spinosissima, hard to propagate)? You are probably right, they will release it there anyway.
@Mr. Vine Eye, I wonder why your LEH is poorly? Mine in the ground started extremely late this year and is only now giving me a half-decent flush. However, I remembered I failed to prune it this year, it was already a nice compact shape and I think I probably passed over it for that reason. I also have one in a pot that gets very little sun - that did much better, strangely. Edited to say - I can’t remember whether I pruned the potted one or not!
Just a sickly one. Cames with 6 canes but dropped down to two as the other 4 all started to dieback one after the other.
They're sending a replacement so hopefully this one will survive and then I'll have two.
@edhelka - many of the reviews on Right Roses are absolute rubbish. They’re clearly just regurgitating the blurb from the DA website description of the rose. They’re basing judgements on that description and not on first hand experience of growing them.
That’s not all of them but several that I’ve seen.
They also gave Royal Jubilee a score of only 7.1!
Agree that you can’t produce a reliable judgement on a rose based on such a short time with it. Not just roses but must perennial plants improve with age. They’re barely getting settled in in the first year.
I gave two of my new unnamed roses a seaweed root drench today, the other three are doing fine. One rose has developed rather sickly pale leaves and the other, a yellow one, I'm not sure will survive, it looks very stunted and poorly, I probably should have disbudded it but was eager to see the colour. It's in a spot where I previously grew a yellow rose so is suffering rose replant disease at a guess, despite using Rootgrow.
@Mr. Vine Eye DA do seem very good at honouring their guarantee. Some years ago they replaced one of mine twice, free of charge, despite the costs to them of sending potted roses here. Aside from the original product, the real test of a good nursery is how they handle customer complaints imo.
The right roses reviews always read like slick, sponsored ads to me. I don’t know if it’s physically possible to be more gushing than they are about Gabriel Oak!
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I was excited when I found the Right Roses site, but then deeply disappointed when I read the articles - I think calling them `reviews` is stretching it a bit. Large amounts of text cut and paste from DA website, and the context of the `review` is unclear - age, conditions, treatments, handling etc. They are also obsessed with the size of the blooms - which is very low down on my list of priorities! The posts and photos on here are far more informative (thanks, everyone).
I have a theory about Weeks/Carruth roses, based only having two of them, so probably entirely without foundation, but...
Julia Child/Ab Fab flowers her socks off, but when she gets black spot, boy does she blow super fast! Diamond Eyes, first season, also blooms like crazy, but from being very healthy one week has gone to looking sad and diseased the next. I picked off the DE leaves Bill the dog peed on and hosed it down so I don’t think he is entirely to blame. It’s like all the energy is put into flowering and they resist and resist disease, but it all gets too much and then...
JC keeps on producing blooms, but is 2/3rds defoliated underneath and the BS is now at the top:
Diamond Eyes has stopped blooming and now looks like this:
For those of you that have these roses, I would be interested to hear if yours does the same, so please keep an eye on them and help me prove or disprove my totally unscientific theory!
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..they may be written with an American audience more in mind, I think the reviewers are Americans living in UK, as by the time they get these roses, they are 2 years old already, so they may add to this as time goes on..
...I expect it will be released in the States, otherwise they might have to bring forward something else, as I'm not sure The Country Parson will be made available there being a spinosissima hybrid that is particularly difficult to propagate in sufficient numbers.. they did not release Sir Walter Scott in the U.S. and apart from colour, it's a very similar rose..
They're sending a replacement so hopefully this one will survive and then I'll have two.
They also gave Royal Jubilee a score of only 7.1!
Agree that you can’t produce a reliable judgement on a rose based on such a short time with it. Not just roses but must perennial plants improve with age. They’re barely getting settled in in the first year.
Julia Child/Ab Fab flowers her socks off, but when she gets black spot, boy does she blow super fast! Diamond Eyes, first season, also blooms like crazy, but from being very healthy one week has gone to looking sad and diseased the next. I picked off the DE leaves Bill the dog peed on and hosed it down so I don’t think he is entirely to blame. It’s like all the energy is put into flowering and they resist and resist disease, but it all gets too much and then...
JC keeps on producing blooms, but is 2/3rds defoliated underneath and the BS is now at the top:
Diamond Eyes has stopped blooming and now looks like this: