Sale on roses at Wayside

I don't know if these are good prices or not - I received an email from Wayside listing them. Some prices are just slightly reduced and some have substantial reductions:

(And, right now until January 18, 2004, each of the Roses listed below is on sale up to 70% off! Just use Bonus Code Q1CZ07 when placing your online order.)

Big, Beautiful Cutflowers
If you want large, perfectly shaped, long-stemmed Roses suitable for the vase, choose Hybrid Teas. They will give you exhibition-quality flowers in late spring and early summer, with many continuing over a long season. Hybrid Teas tend to be 3 to 5 feet high and wide, with thorny canes and often sparse foliage. They are not the hardiest of all Roses, but they undoubtedly produce the most beautiful blooms! Hardy in zones 4-9.

Among our favorite Hybrid Teas:
Brandy - Regular Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $7.45
A 1982 All-America Rose Selection and still one of the most popular Roses for color and fragrance. Soft apricot petals washed with golden open from deep rosy-pink buds. The blooms are about 4 inches wide, with 30 petals held in the classic Hybrid Tea pattern. The scent is moderately strong and very fruity. This upright, vigorous shrub reaches about 5 feet high and 3 feet wide, with large glossy leaves and good disease resistance. Very floriferous!

Mister Lincoln - Regular Price: $10.95 Sale Price: $8.20
Still considered the best red Rose by many experts, this 1965 All-America Rose Selection is deliciously fragrant, many-petaled, and beautiful, with the high-centered look for which Hybrid Teas are famous. The blooms are 5 to 5 1/2 inches wide, deep red, and perfect for cutting. The plant is 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 feet tall, with leathery leaves and good disease resistance.

Pascali - Regular Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $4.95
Winner of numerous awards (including an All-America Selection in 1969), this beautiful Rose packs 35 petals into each of its creamy-white blooms. Measuring 4 inches wide, they have a slight fragrance and utterly perfect form, complementing every color in the garden or vase. The shrub is 4 feet high, 3 feet wide, and quite disease-resistant and winter-hardy.

Scentimental - Regular Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $5.95
An excellent Rose for the first-time gardener, because it's very low-maintenance yet every bit as beautiful as more finicky varieties! Winner of a 1997 All-America Selection, this highly fragrant burgundy-and-white striped Rose is actually a Floribunda rather than a Hybrid Tea -- the blooms arise in clusters as well as singly, and over a longer summer season. 3 1/2 to 4 inches wide, they each boast a unique pattern of striping, so you never see the same Rose twice! This very compact shrub (4 feet high but just 2 feet wide) is perfect for small space gardens, too.

The McCartney Rose - Regular Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $5.25
Winner of more awards for fragrance than any other Rose in history, this magnificent pink is a superb warm-climate Rose, hardy all the way into zone 10! The flowers will bowl you over with their sweet tea scent, and the shrub makes a fine landscape performer -- big, vigorous, and easy to grow. Blooms reach 3 1/2 to 4 inches wide on plants 6 feet high and 4 feet wide.

Love and Peace - Regular Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $5.95
Utterly gorgeous rosy-red and golden blooms a full 5 inches across are breathtaking in the garden or vase on this descendent of the renowned Peace Rose! The scent is fruity and rich, but the real joy is the warm sunset tones of the huge flowers! Winner of an All-America Rose Selection, this 5-foot-high, 4-foot-wide shrub is hardy in zones 5-9.

Landscape Beauty and Long Bloomtime
If you want a bushier shrub that fits into your bed or border and flowers for a month or more (or offers more than one season of blooms), choose Shrub Roses. The famous David Austin New English Roses and Medilland (House of Meilland) French Roses are both types of Shrubs -- bred for better foliage cover, longer seasons of bloom, and multi-season interest. The flowers will not be as large, perfectly formed, and long-stemmed as Hybrid Teas, but they will be more abundant over a longer season. Shrub Roses generally range from 3 to 6 feet high and wide.

Here are my favorite David Austins:

Fair Bianca - Regular Price: $12.95 Sale Price: $5.15
The exotic, spicy scent of myrrh will fill your garden from this compact, hard-working little shrub! Just 3 feet high and wide, it sets masses of petal-packed 3-inch blooms all season.

Heritage - Regular Price: $10.95 Sale Price: $3.25
David Austin's own choice for most beautiful New English Rose of all, with masses of shell-pink blooms redolent of tea and lemons. The 3- to 4-inch blooms are jammed with petals, and arise in clusters all summer long on plants 4 feet high and wide.

Abraham Darby - Regular Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $4.95
Grow it as a shrub or a climber! This versatile Rose sets big 4 1/2- to 5-inch flowers of apricot and gold on long, arching, thorny canes. As a shrub, it reaches 5 to 6 feet high; trained as a climber, 8 feet! Blooms heavily, with a strong fruity scent.

Mary Rose - Regular Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $3.95
Just like the Damask Roses of times gone by, this rich pink is packed with petals and a heavenly sweet scent. The difference is the bloomtime -- Mary Rose blooms in big flushes all season long, often becoming both the first and last Rose blooming in the garden! 3- to 4-inch flowers on 5-foot plants.

Kathryn Morley - Regular Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $3.95
Dense clusters of 3- to 4-inch shell-pink blooms with a rich, sweet scent arise all summer long on compact plants just 3 1/2 to 4 feet high.

Tamora - Regular Price: $12.95 Sale Price: $4.55
Magnificent apricot blooms, 3 inches across and very long-lasting, arise all summer on plants just 2 1/2 to 3 feet high and 2 feet wide! One of the very best David Austins, with a heady myrrh scent and tireless bloom power!

Glamis Castle - Regular Price: $12.95 Sale Price: $6.45
A lovely white Rose, with plentiful clusters of 2 1/2- to 3-inch blooms with an Old Rose look and a heavenly myrrh scent! This plant is 3 to 4 feet high and wide, and renowned for its adaptability.

Redoute - Regular Price: $10.95 Sale Price: $4.35
With curvy, plentiful petals of soft pink, this offspring of Mary Rose (above) looks like an old Damask variety -- and smells like it too, with that indescribably sweet old Rose scent! Very long-blooming, this 5- to 6-foot-tall shrub is often among the first Rose to open and last to close each season.

Charlotte - Regular Price: $12.95 Sale Price: $4.55
Very free-flowering, this generously-sized shrub bears masses of buttery-yellow 4-inch blooms that age to cream. Only slightly fragrant, it's a good companion to more strongly-scented David Austins in the garden and vase.

And here are a few more classic Shrub varieties you'll love:

Blanc Double de Coubert - Regular Price: $12.95 Sale Price: $9.70
A favorite since it appeared in 1892, with semi-double white blooms arising most heavily early in the season, then repeating. Deadhead for more buds, and enjoy bright orange hips all fall and winter! 4 to 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide, it's disease-free and very good for cold climates.

Knock Out - Regular Price: $16.95 Sale Price: $14.40
Very shade-tolerant and beautiful in every season, this 2000 All-America Rose Selection is fantastic in the landscape! The blooms are fire-engine red, 3 to 3 1/2 inches wide, and boast a light Tea scent. They are followed by autumn foliage of deep burgundy and bright orange-red hips that remain colorful all winter! Just 3 feet high and wide.

Frederic Mistral - Regular Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $5.95
Winner of numerous fragrance awards, this rosy-pink Romantica Rose can be grown as a shrub or a climber. The blooms are 3 1/2 to 4 inches wide, perfectly formed, and eager to bloom all summer.

Marmalade Skies - Regular Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $12.70
The jazziest tangerine-copper blooms ever, borne in clusters of 5 to 8 all summer long! This 2001 All-America Rose Selection is a tireless bloomer that will keep your vases full of beautiful 3-inch flowers!

Vertical Color for Trellises, Walls, Fences, and Arbors
If you want to blanket a wall, frame a window, decorate a trellis, or color up a fence, choose Climbing Roses. The quality and quantity of blooms you get depends on the type you choose -- many now set "Hybrid Tea" blooms on a climbing habit, while older varieties tend to bear smaller and more numerous flowers. Climbers can reach anywhere from 5 to 30 feet high, and have different pruning requirements depending on type.

Here are a trio of classic climbers:

Golden Showers - Regular Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $12.70
Winner of multiple awards when it was introduced in 1957, this very floriferous, bushy climber is still everyone's favorite yellow. The blooms measure 5 to 5 1/2 inches -- ideal for cutting! -- and have a lovely scent. They keep coming reliably from late spring all the way into fall on vigorous plants 6 to 8 feet high and 4 feet wide. Hardy in zones 5-9.

Eden - Regular Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $4.45
The best of the Romantica Roses from the House of Meilland in France, this pearly pink beauty blooms heavily all summer, dazzling you with dozens upon dozens of 3-inch, mildly fragrant flowers! Just 8 feet high and 5 feet wide, it's the ideal size for an arbor or trellis, and won't overwhelm the rest of the garden . . . except with its profuse flower show!

Altissimo - Regular Price: $9.95 Sale Price: $3.95
If you hate pruning, this is the Rose for you! Altissimo is a bright red, single-flowered variety that sets huge, lightly sweet 5-inch blooms all summer. A splendid choice for just about any climate (it's famously heat tolerant as well as tolerant of cold winters!), it reaches 8 to 10 feet tall -- often in just one season! Breathtaking color on a grand scale. Zones 4-9.