You are an evil, EVIL enabler, Kathy! I guess I'll forgive you just this ONCE, because it's a fundraiser auction. Bid high, and bid often, folks ... just not on my roses. :)

Connie

Yahaha -- and which roses would those be, Connie?

More:

Phantom: (I just succeeded in finding cuttings of this one myself, and I donated the extra plant that started from the second cutting I received to the auction -- it is the brightest red you've ever seen on a rose, and makes dense clusters of single blooms with bright yellow stamens that are gorgeous -- it's actually my favorite new rose for the year. It's a great plant if you are a rose exhibitor too -- wins in the shrub spray class whenever it's entered. Grows to around 4 feet tall. This is the first bloom off of my plant -- it bloomed yesterday.)

Or how about Takao?

Happy bidding,
Kathy

Kathy,
There's one here that is WAY too tempting. Free shipping huh? Oh no! I guess I missed it. Oh well, I got to enjoy your beautiful pictures. Since it's too late to bid, I might as well tell you I would have bid on 'Maggie.' Hope your auction is a success.
Thank you,
Kitty

Kitty, she didn't mean FREE shipping. It's shipping at the actual cost that they have to pay. No added on handling charges, etc. The winner does have to pay for shipping.

Well, I missed out on bidding. Got busy and forgot. But for all of you who did bid, GOOD LUCK and I hope you manage to get the ones you wanted!! There are some great roses on those lists.

Kathy ~
Thank you for the notice. It was a little too late for me to be able to participate, sorry to say, and there were a couple of roses on the list that I had recently ordered elsewhere for spring.
Let us know how it went! I hope it was a great sucess. Maybe next time will be better timing for me. (I hope).
The lists with the links are very useful, though. I am enjoying looking through them. They are the stuff winter day dreams are made of!
Sandra

Here is a link that might be useful: Roses, Color, and Light

Well then look for us next year -- same time, same place. We had a few internet bidders, but mostly it was locals, and, as expected, we had more roses than bidders. So there were some great deals to be had.

I was "bottom fishing," (i.e. searching for those rarities that didn't get much bidding attention from anyone else) and ended up spending only a total of $80 for ten roses, all for interesting varieties that are mostly new to me. But now I have them and will post photos as they bloom. I got roses that run the gamut:

Ain't She Sweet -- Joe Winchel's hot pink hybrid tea from the same line that produced the rose "Dolly Parton."
Beauty Within -- a new J & P yellow floribunda. introduction that won "best floribunda" at the International Rose Trial at Rose Hills just last month.
Bukavu -- a Louis Lens hybrid musk that has been winning at rose shows recently.
Honorine de Brabant -- a striped OGR bourbon for my stripey collection.
Merveille des Rouges -- a red polyantha.
New Orleans -- a brand new shrub introduction from Heirlooms this year that I'm excited about.
Robert Clements -- an Heirlooms old classic that has many good reports, but I've never seen this orange shrub in person. Schubert -- a mauve shrub that grows like a polyantha
Summer Fashion -- a pastel yellow and pink floribunda I used to grow and remember liking.
Vif Eclat -- a red hybrid musk, which I bought because hybrid musks are usually pink and white, so this seemed very unusual.

Again, I'll post pics when I have them of these, and we hope to see you next year.

Btw, Connie was correct -- we don't ship for free, but rather at "our cost," which mean you pay for shipping, but only the actual cost of postage and supplies, nothing for our labor and no markups of any kind.

Kathy

Sorry, not Connie -- I meant to say Beth was right about the shipping.

I bid on three, but only got one - Coachella. That is a good thing, as I really have no room. But, I still wish I had gotten that adorable Ladybug!

Thanks for letting us know about the auction and enjoy your interesting acquisitions!

Just because it's interesting, I thought I'd let you all know the prices that the roses pictured above went for -- some really good deals there, and also some that attracted a lot of competition from folks who really wanted THAT rose.
Maggie: $14
Peachy Cheeks: $15
Ladybug: $62
HiHo: $6
Hondo: $15
Pompeii: $27
Patriot Kordana: $20
Phantom: $57
Takao: $20.

The highest price rose in the whole auction was Pink Lemonade at $100, and the lowest price rose was The Gift at $4, which actually is a very nice rose. So . . .there's just no predicting these prices.

Kathy

As a follow up, I bid on 5 roses, and I got 4 of them.

Darling Jenny
Mary Ann
Star Delight
Moore's Last Stripe

I'm so excited!!! Kathy is baby-sitting these for me and she'll ship them in the spring. I'm afraid California roses would not take kindly to being sent to Virginia in November.

Connie

Wow! $100 for PINK LEMONADE? Yikes. That was the main one I would've bid on had I gotten around to doing so. Cliff has it and I asked him if he'd propagate it for me. He wasn't sure if he'd get to it now because he had a few days of frost and wasn't sure if the cuttings would be viable now. So hopefully he can do it in the spring, maybe. How much did QUICKSILVER go for? That would've been my other choice.

Quicksilver: $75. Lots of folks collect Christensen roses, it seems and they're hard to get.

What did Stranger go for? That's the one I really wanted!

Don't feel too bad regarding Ladybug. I bought that when it originally came out. First off, the canes are dripping with thorns. It's a real hazard should you walk by with a skirt. Second, the thing was a rust and mildew magnet! Sometimes there would be no foliage at all because of the rust and mildew -- all you were left with was those thorny canes! Yes, the blooms were kind of cool, but on the small side. In the end, I traded it with someone on this forum for Tom Brown. Tom Brown is fantastic--great fragrance, form and color-- so it was a good deal for me. In fact, the person contacted me a few months later and wanted to get Tom Brown back. No way! :)

Here is a link that might be useful: Rare Roses.com Blog

I donated the Stranger plant, which I grew with a rooter pot from my original, and it went for $90, so I was pleased. Stranger is a very cool rose, but a bear to root -- you almost have to use rooter pots -- won't root otherwise for me.

Now, about that Tom Brown . . . .

Well Kathy, I live in OC too. You're welcome to come take a few cuttings of Tom Brown. And, well, if you get another Stranger plant to root, I'd be happy to make some sort of donation to your rose society. :)

Here is a link that might be useful: Rare Roses.com