Maggie's Farm

Got spectacular David Austin roses from Wayside two years ago that bloomed the summer after the spring I planted them. And the cheapest prices on the web. If you can stay your impatience and wait until the last possible planting time, you can get their amazing prices ($4 and 5$ for a plant) . But for the gambler as they may run out before your frugal heart is satisfied it's the lowest price, and some arrive dead. They have a guarantee, but I am not not good about keeping receipts, etc. A pain. But fun when a couple take off.

By contrast, the White Flower Farm New Dawn (sic?) cost twice as much, didn't bloom until the second summer, and then only a little. May have it in a bad spot...

One word for you all, probably needless, Manure. All you need for gorgeous blooms. Yeah, I use kelp extract, baby them with fancy European foliar feeding, etc. but the manure does more good than anything else. Particularly if you start out as I do with a shady lot, waterlogged soil, acid, clayey, in theory impossible to grow roses in.