I prefer to go for bare root and plant in winter then the rose has a chance to settle in, but if it isn't bare root season any more and I want a rose I will buy it in a pot. I have just bought Chevy Chase in a pot but it had only recently been put into one.
@Nollie I did the same as you when I planted my new rambler, the hole was bigger than the box and I backfilled. I dug away some of the lawn to do so, at least, the handy man did! I just did the finishing touches. Luxury, first time I haven't dug a hole myself, but knee and back aren't what they used to be.
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I can lend you my border collie to dig you some holes if your handyman is indisposed, @Busy-Lizzie. Had to google Chevy Chase and it looks stunning!
I buy mostly bareroots @Alfie_ but I ordered a potted rose or two last summer. This one was a present from my husband (Eustacia Vye sent by Styles). Best thing to open ever. The smell!
Some of the roses I want weren't offered bareroot, either (like Harkness's Virginia McKenna, or Princess Charlene de Monaco from Henry St) so have had to get those potted or not get them at all (clearly the latter was not an option).
With me I have tended to buy what I can at the point when I decide I want a particular rose. If it is bare root season then for cost reasons I choose that but if the rose is only available potted then I'll get that. I think a very late season bare root is the version that establishes most slowly so I would pot that up and not drectly plant until much later in the year, so effectively what the retailers are selling potted at that stage.
WAMS I think your pic of Eustacia Vye is the first time I've been tempted by that rose. It looks beautiful and gave me such a scentful flashback to opening a blooming potted rose. Nothing better I reckon.
@Alfie_ price wise I’d always prefer a bareroot, but sometimes you’re in a GC and you find a beautiful, strong scented rose and you just have to bring it home 😆 and to be fair while DA potted roses are megabucks a lot of other growers aren’t (I got 4 from pococks last year that were very reasonably priced)
Oh tell me about it @Busy-Lizzie, digging the hole for this nearly killed me!!
Bare root all the way for me. Not much option really, as the GCs mostly carry the same old limited range of tired HTs. I have resorted to importing the odd potted rose when I got impatient for something, but they were little more bare roots stuck in a pot anyway. I can do that myself for less than half the price!
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@WAMS - that an incredible present to get. Looks amazing. Is it just luck to get ones delivered like that in bloom? I bought a potted Princess Anne and that was just in bud. I love the look of Eustacia Vye and ordered two bare roots in the winter. Have them in a single large pot in courtyard. Even more excited seeing that photo.
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@Nollie I did the same as you when I planted my new rambler, the hole was bigger than the box and I backfilled. I dug away some of the lawn to do so, at least, the handy man did! I just did the finishing touches. Luxury, first time I haven't dug a hole myself, but knee and back aren't what they used to be.
I buy mostly bareroots @Alfie_ but I ordered a potted rose or two last summer. This one was a present from my husband (Eustacia Vye sent by Styles). Best thing to open ever. The smell!
Some of the roses I want weren't offered bareroot, either (like Harkness's Virginia McKenna, or Princess Charlene de Monaco from Henry St) so have had to get those potted or not get them at all (clearly the latter was not an option).
I like to buy potted from mid May to mid June, when they're either in bud or flowering.. it's such fun to open the box in anticipation..
Bare root all the way for me. Not much option really, as the GCs mostly carry the same old limited range of tired HTs. I have resorted to importing the odd potted rose when I got impatient for something, but they were little more bare roots stuck in a pot anyway. I can do that myself for less than half the price!