Comments regarding Chamblee's Rose Nursery

The first time I ordered from this company, April, I ordered nine roses. They were healthy and well packaged. I was very pleased with the roses so submitted another order in May. Those just arrived in good shape. The condition of the roses makes me confident they'll be beautiful additions to my garden. I'd definitely order from this company again. As a plus, they have an extensive selection.

Posted on March 7, 2011, updated May 4, 2011
I easily have over 100 roses in my gardens. The healthiest and best have come from Chamblee's. My first rose order of the year is always from them. Only if they don't carry the rose do I look elsewhere and only if its a rose I really really desire. Otherwise if Chamblee's doesn't carry it, I wait until they do. The roses do arrive small; however, by the end of the season they've caught up to roses that were planted in previous years and I'm zone 5 so I have a shorter growing season. The only downside is I wish their search engine on their website offered a few more ways to narrow down the rose varieties (fragrance, zone, color, size, etc). But otherwise, there is no rose nursery I'd rather do business with.

Received my first order from Chamblee's last week of 6 roses and they were beautiful. Great looking plants, some already blooming, and packed nicely so no delivery damage. They have a great selection and the prices are very reasonable especially compared to your local nursery.

I ordered roses from Chamblee's because of the positive feedback posted here on garden watchdog. I was not disappointed. This is an excellent rose supplier with a wide selection and shipping in gallon sized pots. Some of the roses were blooming even though they had traveled half way across the country packed in a cardboard box. I am very impressed and would encourage anyone to order from this vendor.

Posted on May 16, 2005, updated April 25, 2011
I was so satisfied with the service and the roses( 3 ballerina rose bushes) that I decided to buy more this year. They won't sacrifice quality for a buck and have stopped shipping until fall. It's too hot on the trucks for the roses and they'd rather lose a sale than send stressed-out roses! How's that for integrity?

I'm lucky- I'm only 70 miles from Tyler, TX and made the trip. The greenhouses are amazing- 300 roses to choose from, easy to find everything, and, a staff that actually wants to help you and, they really knows roses. Why can't every business operate this way???

Posted on September 30, 2010, updated March 31, 2011
Posted on November 21, 2008, updated September 30, 2010
I just recieved my first order from this company. I couldn't be more pleased with the quality of the roses ordered and the quality of customer service. I can easily see ordering from them in the future

JAS
Fleming Island, Florida

I ordered the Julia Child Rose from this company. Received it in perfect condition. Planted it in full sun and it is doing great. I just got my first rose and it is beautiful, I will order from this company again.

This was my first order with Chamblees, for eleven roses. They arrived today, packed very well. They all look healthy, and several even have flower buds on them! I can hardly wait to get them into the ground..They have a great selection and prices, and I will definitely be ordering from them again.

I have ordered something like 100+ roses from many different rose growers over the past decade, including Chamblee's. Chamblee's is my preferred grower over all the rest. Their customer service is excellent, orders (except for one) have always been accurate on arrival and the one time it wasn't they didn't give me any trouble and shipped the correct rose to me post haste! I have never had a rose die on me from Chamblees (that I didn't kill myself, that is). This is not the case from other growers. For instance, I have ordered from the Antique Rose Emporium before, and while I love their wide selection, one of the roses they sent me died shortly after arrival (I suspect from cane dieback, it had been pruned for shipment) and it was like pulling teeth getting them to accept responsibility and ship another one.

Chamblees roses are also very reasonably priced.

If I could change anything about Chamblees I would have them add more exemplar pictures of the roses to the site, have some pictures of roses in different types of gardens (like cottage vs formal) and broaden the way they aggregate roses - they need categories like "full, low growing shrub roses" or "mannerly climbers" vs "house eaters". With a decade of rose growing, Chamblees is pretty much the only grower I order from unless I can't find the variety in their shop.

I ordered roses from Chamblee's for Fall planting this year. It was my first experience ordering from the nursery. The transaction was easy, shipping prompt and packaging safe. The plants (Don Juan & Clotilde Soupert) are of excellent size with mature, substantial root systems. The nursery's prices are significantly lower than some of the other rose farms from which I've ordered. I will definitely order from Chamblee's again!

I ordered 6 potted roses from Chamblee's and the order arrived yesterday. The roses were outstanding, they were alot bigger than expected,some had blooms. Chamblee's packaged them with care, they were still moist, just very healthy large plants.

I plan for Chamblee's to be the place for my rose needs from now on. I had called mid order to replace one rose with another, the representative was helpful, respectful very kind. The next day i called and added another rose to the order, they shipped them together as i asked. It has been a very pleasureable experience with this company, and believe me, i have order from them all, i have 88 roses, some companies are not so good with customer service, some send you nearly dead plants, but to do business with a company that has great customer service and great roses, well thats a plus. This one is a keeper!!!
THANKS CHAMBLEE'S !!!

it took me awhile to post this but after receiving bad roses from another company had to post this .youre company is special, youre roses are the best they came budded and healthy and vibrant . packed beautifully and priced right. keep up the good work and thank you for great roses

Earlier this year I received 5 roses from Chamblees and have enjoy watching them grow and bloom all spring/ summer and they are stil growing healthy, strong with lots of blooms. I was a bit concerned because of my deep southeast Alabama location, but I have to tell you my 2 Abraham Darby's, Sharifa Asma, Heritage and Tess of the D'Urberbilles are just simply gorgeous. I highly recommend Chamblee, thank you for such quality roses.

WOW,WOW,WOW Cant say enough about the roses I just received!!!Wonderful price,shipping,and quality of my plants shipped. A++++ will order from the company again!! Thanks:)

This was my first time ordering from Chamblee's Rose Nursery, and I am just thrilled with the quality of the roses I received. Each gallon pot had at least 3 thick healthy canes. After checking through many other nurseries, I picked Chamblee's because of the positive reviews here as well as competitive pricing and low shipping cost. I'm just so pleased to receive these beautiful plants (Wild Blue Yonder, Abraham Darby, Pegasus, Evelyn, and Dark Lady) so quickly (next day turnaround for shipping from Tyler, TX to Houston, TX). They will be a lovely present for my mother this weekend. I will definitely be a returning customer.

Ordered from Chamblee's during a sale, I believe, in January. 8 roses arrived right on time, this week. After 4 days in transit, they looked as if I had brought them home from a local nursery!

The Green China rose has at least 7 blooms on it, several others have buds about to open. I am delighted at the quality of the plants, and the safety of the shipping. Pots were still moist, and I almost hesitated to water them as directed when they arrived.

I will definitely be back to Chamblee's again. The biggest thing for me, aside from the quality of the plants, is the fact that I did not have to 'remind' them of my order-it shipped autmatically, at the correct time, through their system.

This is what customer service is about!! Thanks Chamblee's.

Great customer service and beautful and affordable roses. My father ordered from them over 30 years ago and now I do too.

This was my first time ordering container roses from Chamblee's roses, and so I didn't know what to expect. I was very happy when I received my order from Chamblee's roses. The roses were very large and healthy, and one of the roses (Jude the Obscure) already had 5 roses already in bloom on them. I felt like someone had just sent me a bouquet of roses:) The roses were shipped exactly when they promised. I will definitely buy from them again.

Posted on March 16, 2010, updated April 12, 2010
I ordered 4 roses. Chihuly, Portmerion, Benjamin Britten, and Monsieur Tillier. They shipped yesterday and arrived today. They came in excellent condition, much better than you could have gotten at home depot or lowe's. The Chihuly even had 1 rose blooming! I will definitely order 4 or more in the fall!

They came in plastic containers wrapped in transparent plastic to keep the dirt from falling out. Newspaper was loosley wrapped around each plant.

If you're going to order roses and chamblee rose nursery has the cultivars you want, you need to order from them! Their roses are about 1/2 the price of roses sold at garden centers at home depot & Lowe's and the David Austin roses they carry are about 1/2 price than roses sold at david austin's website. Definitely a big deal!

You must order from Chamblee Rose Nursery!

I received my order of 7 roses and they are doing great. Would highly recommend Chamblee's as the place to purchase your roses. Thanks. :)

Posted on April 12, 2009, updated April 8, 2010
I just received my first order of 6 roses from this company. They were well packed. Even after sitting in the warm sun (delivery person left them there) - probably for a couple of hours, they were in good shape when I unpacked them (moist soil), and looked great after a day spent outside in a shady location.

This is my first experience with own-root roses, but I'm very pleased with the product and service from this company so far. The plants were larger than I'd expected and look very healthy, and one variety had buds or blooms on all three plants.

Posted on April 8, 2009, updated March 30, 2010
Wow. Just wow.

Three plants arrived today just loaded with leaves and buds, well-branched, healthy and looking like they never spent a moment in the back of the UPS truck. The Ducher is small but looks better than any other rose I've ever purchased online. The Gruss an Aachen and the Abraham Darby are HUGE!

I will be placing all my orders with Chamblee from now on.

Just received an order for 8 roses and was pleasantly surprised!! They are gorgeous! They are healthy, leafed out, large bushes, 6-8" above soil line, in 1 gallon pots, and packed really well. Looks like I brought them home from a garden shop. I am impressed....NOT the sad looking sticks I have recieved from other venders in the past. Now, off to planting if it will stop raining in NC!!!
Will see how they do and perhaps Chamblee has made a friend for life!!

Received my order today from Chamblee's Roses. I ordered 5 roses and all arrived in beautiful condition. Very well packed. I will continue to order from them in the future. Highly recommended their nursery.

I have been meaning to leave a comment for some time now! I bought a bunch of David Austin Roses in March 2009: 3 Heritage, 3 Pat Austin, 3 Portmeirion, 1 Evelyn, and 1 L.D. Braithewaite rose. All came in fabulous condition, packed very well. Some plants even had buds on them. I will say the roses that have done best are Heritage. In one summer they grew 5 feet tall!!! I actually had to cut them back a bit and they have only been in the ground a year. Evelyn gives out some huge flowers that are so gorgeous and smell amazing- I had my last and largest bloom on November 12! The others did not perform as well but they had plenty of blooms for their first summer in the ground. L.D. Braithewaite only gave me a couple of blooms, so I transplanted him to another area of the garden and I hope he does better this summer. I am really looking forward to spring/summer 2010 cause I am expecting a show of gorgeous and fragrant blossoms! I have already purchased a couple more and waiting anxiously for their arrival- Queen Elizabeth rose for my grandmother, and an Abraham Darby for me! Love this company. They have great prices which means I can get more for my money.

Posted on September 16, 2007, updated February 16, 2010
I went to chamblees to purchase roses. I told them I was new to roses and wanted good quality roses.

I bought 20 plants that were only 5$ each. The person said you want to look for one that is healthy and has a good system with three good canes as she pointed to the canes in the pot.

As a newbie, I would've appreciated more honesty.

I saw them later at a garden show selling the same plants for $6.97 each.

The plants all had three cuttings in them instead of three canes on one plant.

When you took them out of the pots, they were distinctly separate plants and were not very old rooted cuttings.

They were not what I was told and not what I expected to recieve.

After three years of learning about roses, I now look online about what to expect before going out to buy roses.

For the same amount (acutally 3 cents less) I bought roses from Wal-mart that were bare root, wrapped in plastic with compost keeping the roots moist. They were actually three cane roses and had a strong root system. No babying or pampering was needed when they were planted out.

Chamblees has own root roses and they are not graded by any standards. Only grafted roses are graded.

Having learned this, I personally will not buy their roses again.
I like own root roses, but I prefer healthy roses grown for at least two years. They are much less stressed and have a much better chance of survival.

Now if they (chamblees) had told me that I could get healthier and older plants by paying more, I would have done that. The problem I have is that they were asked to give me guidance as a newbie and some advice on roses. I actually went there to buy 20 roses and would have paid $10 - $15 a plant had they given me the proper advice.

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We politely take the time to reply to this negative rating, but would like to list the inconsistencies in the negative claim:
1) The only garden show in Tyler, Texas, that our roses have been sold at were not sold for $6.97. If this was the price, these were not our roses.
2) The roses we have for $5.00 at our nursery are very old plants that have been discontinued due to slow sales of these varieties. Our sales staff would not have introduced these roses to a customer claiming to be "new" to roses, as larger, well-established varieties are much more appealing. We also stay in business by selling our higher quality roses. The "bargain" roses are geared toward gardeners who are not looking for specific varieties and want a low price.
3) All of our roses, including the $5.00 roses, carry a 90 day guarantee and we will be glad to replace them if they do not perform. We were not contacted by you for this information.
4) Although you refer to yourself as a "newbie", you state that you have been learning about roses for three years and have taken a class at ARE. We are always happy to educate our customers properly. In fact, we hold an annual Rose Adventure for those customers who study roses as deeply as you claim to.
5) Bare root roses are grafted roses and require much care in order to survive. Grading laws do not apply to own-root roses, as governed by United States Department of Agriculture. We only carry own-root roses, and our product cannot be honestly compared to a grafted rose sold at Wal-Mart. Numerous rose growers would support the fact that own-root roses are hardier, and easier to grow than grafted roses.

As always, had you contacted us regarding your displeasure with our staff or our products, we would have been more than happy to correct the situation. As you can tell, we are highly regarded when it comes to customer service. We are pleased to here that you are a happy customer of Antique Rose Emporium as they are a customer of ours, and friends in the rose community.
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Great company! I have ordered from them by mail and have bought roses in person at their greenhouses in Tyler, Texas. They have a wonderful selection of old roses, Griffith Buck roses, and hardy newer rose varieties, including the Knockouts. They have several David Austin roses. They usually carry all of the Earthkind varieties as well. All of the roses they sell are grown on their own roots. Their mail order roses have always arrived very well packed and quite healthy and vigorous. I am hoping to visit them in person again soon during a road trip from Texas to Georgia. At the nursery you usually have your choice of many of the roses in one, two, or three gallon containers. They mail order their one gallon roses. Their pricing is great, and their customer service is very courteous. I am a huge fan of these folks!

The Ballerina shrub roses I ordered last year are twice the size of the ones I ordered elsewhere at the same time. And this being California, they're blooming here in early January!Reasonable price, nice selection, efficient service.

I ordered 3 David Austin Glamis Castle and 2 Aloha climbers. They arrived the first of last week but due to my horrible work schedule they sat on the front porch for 4 days.
Today I finally got to open the box, knowing they would be in sad shape. When I opened the top I was met by 2 beautiful Glamis Castle blooms!!! Two of the GC roses were blooming and the third has buds. The two Aloha's are in wonderful shape and are about 2 feet tall.
I am so impressed!!!!
I will definitely buy from them again and already have some spring roses picked out.
Now to dig some holes.........................................

I ordered four Dr. Griffith Buck Roses (Prairie Breeze, Prairie Flower, Prairie Harvest, Prairie Sunset) which I could not find elsewhere, and received four well-grown healthy one-gallon plants two weeks later (9/26/09). I am very pleased with my on-line experience with Chamblee's Rose Nursery and would recommend them.

I ordered a rose called The Prince from this company. It arrived in good condition in about 2 weeks after the order was placed. I am quite satisfied with the rose and will order from them again as I am rebuilding my rose garden.

I order every year and feel this is the best place for good size own root roses. Good selection of David Austin roses and Buck roses. Very good customer service. Cant wait to pick out roses for next year.

I was so very excited to be ordering from this company for the first time since I had heard such great reviews! I am sad to say that the rose shipped did not meet my expectations (it was a sunny knockout rose)! Firstly their packing job was less than desirable (the rose was placed into the bottom of the box and the remaining space was packed with newspaper breaking many of the branches on the rose). As for the plant, it was obviously just transferred into a gallon sized pot when it clearly should have been kept in the pot it was already in.
SO, the plant was already small, and many of the branches were broken off so I decided to email them and tell them of my experience. Luckily they responded promptly and I am pleased to say they sent me a new plant that was better than the first, but still packed in a less than desirable way!
All in all I am not too happy with the company, I think that they really need to try and do a better job of shipping their plants, which seem to be very good quality I might add! The two roses that I received from there, the one I ordered and the replacement, are both doing well now despite the harsh treatment they received initially.

"On Jun 15, 2009 9:14 AM, Chamblee's Rose Nursery responded with:

As mentioned in the negative review, we did respond promptly to your concerns. Customer satisfaction is very important to us. We are glad that both of your roses are doing well for you. We apologize for any damage you received to your plants during shipping."

Wow! I have ordered from Chamblee's twice; and in both cases the roses have arrived in beautiful condition. The original roses that I ordered two years ago far eclipse those that I've bought locally; and the new ones are already performing nicely. My roses were a nice size and arrived with many buds. I also find the website to have great information, and the varieties that they carry are indeed disease resistant, even in the humid conditions in Virginia.

This was my first order from Chamblee. What a joy.

I ordered ballerina, Gruss An Auchen and Else Poulsen.
Lovely plants and healthy.

Can't wait to plant them.

I'll be back for more.

My husband called me at work and said what did you order this box weighs a ton. I knew my rose were here.

I was not disappointed when I got home. I opened the box and I could not believe the roses. The New Dawn was blooming and smelled heavenly. Most of the rest of the order had buds or blooms. I spent the early part of the evening unwrapping like Christmas. I am very pleased with the roses

I will definitely order again as soon as I figure out where I can put more roses.

Living in upstate NY has it’s disadvantages though. We have a frost warning for early next week so I guess I have to wait until I plant to err on the side of caution.

I ordered 2 Belinda's Dream roses. They arrived very healthy and dark green in gallon flower pots. This is great as I like to see how they like a spot before I plant them. I would ordered again and again from here!
Pam

I ordered 4 David Austin roses from this site back in the fall, to be delivered this spring. They arrived exactly when I requested them. They were very carefully packaged and each plant arrived in fantastic shape. Because these roses were in pots, not bare-root, I had freedom to plant the roses at my leisure instead of within a day or so of receiving them. My roses are now happily situated in their new spots and blooming! I could not be happier with my entire experience with this company, from the pleasure of perusing their web site to opening the box to view healthy plant packaged with such care, to now seeing the plants thrive in my garden. At first I gasped a bit at their shipping costs but I believe now it was worth every cent. I heartily recommend this company.

I ordered a Zephirine Drouhin climbing rose from Chamblee's earlier this year. They shipped at the appropriate planting time. I was very, very pleased with my rose when it arrived. It was well-packed, in a pot with moist soil, and had suffered no breakage. It has been in the ground a couple of months now and seems to be doing wonderfully!

Would definitely order from them again.