The 2010 roses will be arriving mid-December. This past year has been a hard season for the queen of flowers. Worries about war, recession, job losses, extended drought, and other turmoil had many of us turn our interest, money and time to growing our daily food instead of a rose garden.

“Do you dare to grow roses during wartime?” asked Mrs. Edward W. Biddle of Philadelphia in the 1918 American Rose Annual. Mrs. Biddle’s own reply to this was: “Mercifully there are roses to be cultivated while we read of torpedoes and machineguns, or submarines and zeppelins!”

Below is our offering of bareroot roses for 2010; we’ve aimed for a selection of tried-and-true roses for our area.
Bareroot roses for 2010
Climbers–Joseph’s Coat, Sally Holmes, Westerland
Floribundas–Easy Does It, Iceberg
Hybrid Teas–Honor, Just Joey, Mister Lincoln, Peace
Many, many more varieties will be available in pots beginning in January. We have a complete list of all roses for 2010 at the nursery.

Mrs. Biddle’s quote taken from A Rose By Any Name by Brenner & Scanniello. 

—Maria