Chamblee's order in!

Lauren and I unpacked the Chamblee's boxes that arrived today. We ordered an embarrassing number of roses. All are large and healthy. There were a few broken canes here and there, but nothing fatal.

Winter Sunset is beautiful.

Polonaise really is pink, not red. It's the same color as our peony Paula Fay.

Margo Koster is adorable.

Golden Princess is kind of puny, but I'm sure it looks fine underneath.

Cupcake is more salmon pink than candy pink. No fragrance, but it's very cute.

Whoever said that Enchanted Autumn had no thorns must have been looking at a different plant. Nice foliage, though!

Griff's Red is...tall.

Scepter'd Isle looks vigorous. It had very nice roots. I planted it under my window.

Honeysweet came with its very own exploded flower! It has a nice fragrance and the color is so pretty...like a nectarine.

Prairie Star looks strangely like Madame Plantier. That kind of color.

Folksinger has lots of flower buds, no flowers.

Heirloom has several flower buds, and nice foliage.

Jude the Obscure lost a flowering cane, boo hoo! So did Distant Drums! However, they did give us a very nice Evelyn!

I'm really impressed by the size and price of these plants! $11.95 for a David Austin rose! $8.95 for everything else! And they're gallons!

A trio of roses.

A trio of roses., a photo by tsubasa_ozora.rm on Flickr.

The red-pink one is Polonaise, the pink one is Cupcake, and the apricot one is Winter Sunset. Winter Sunset in particular really stole my heart!