...a Rose vendor in Germany....
...for those who enjoy importing roses from abroad, I thought you might like to know of this one, if you don't already.... they're called Agel-Rosen... there is an English option to translate and they can communicate in English if required... the service I have received is nothing short of First Class...
I ordered 4 bare root roses on Sunday just gone... they were despatched on the Monday by DPD Courier, and I received them today Wednesday.... 3 working days..... their roses are not quite as cheap as Tuincentrum but still competitive and shipping is 14.55 Euros... I'm not sure how many you can order for that, maybe 10.. but I only wanted 4... works out about £12 shipping... payment by Pay Pal.... all very easy. They have a nice selection from a variety of breeders, including Austins...
https://www.agel-rosen.de/en/Garden-Roses/_in-stock/
...they arrive like this...
...always exciting when we open the box...
..they are wrapped in a straw bundle...
...I am reusing this straw, or whatever it is.. quite useful... and also a good green bag too..
'Carmen Wurth'... a much coveted rose, I've been wanting for some time...
I think I got the last one as they are now sold out... huge roots, 'laxa' rootstock, as here..
I ordered 4 bare root roses on Sunday just gone... they were despatched on the Monday by DPD Courier, and I received them today Wednesday.... 3 working days..... their roses are not quite as cheap as Tuincentrum but still competitive and shipping is 14.55 Euros... I'm not sure how many you can order for that, maybe 10.. but I only wanted 4... works out about £12 shipping... payment by Pay Pal.... all very easy. They have a nice selection from a variety of breeders, including Austins...
https://www.agel-rosen.de/en/Garden-Roses/_in-stock/
...they arrive like this...
...always exciting when we open the box...
..they are wrapped in a straw bundle...
...I am reusing this straw, or whatever it is.. quite useful... and also a good green bag too..
'Carmen Wurth'... a much coveted rose, I've been wanting for some time...
I think I got the last one as they are now sold out... huge roots, 'laxa' rootstock, as here..
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''...for those who enjoy importing roses from abroad,''
...as for importing diseases from the E.U. .. perhaps it's not generally known but you can import - without restrictions or declarations of any sort - up to 50 cut rose stems from the United States, where they have Rose Rosette Disease, which decimates roses in various States over there... it is possible for it to be transferred to another country this way...
The RHS says it's best to buy local or British if possible and they do now insist that any plants used to make display gardens at their various shows have spent several months in quarantine if imported.
I can't see the point of buy British grown roses such as DA English roses from a reputable German or other EU nursery but if they have varieties you can't source anywhere else I don't see a problem. There are some very good rose nurseries in Belgium too - Lens, Daniel Schmitz.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
...we are very much indebted to an American rosarian.. a scientist too, for bringing back to our country a long lost Hybrid Musk rose called 'Rosaleen'.... bred at the famous Havering-atte-Bower nursery in Essex [now a Hospice] by John and Ann Bentall and introduced in 1933... as far as we know it's lost to cultivation in this country but still grown in the U.S....
..The American gentleman was able to bring back a number of cut stems of this rose, - before the loophole was closed - but which of course were disease free in any case, and deliver them to a descendant of John Bentall, in Yorkshire... hopefully this rose will now be put back into circulation here once again, and especially back in the National Collection of these roses held at what is now St. Francis Hospice, Havering-atte-Bower.. [featured on a G.W. episode a couple of years ago]....
...If Beales or Austin get hold of it, I shall certainly be wanting one...
...thanks for your replies....
I don’t know the statistics so please correct me if I am wrong, but I suspect most British companies import the vast majority of their stock from major rose breeders in Germany, France, Denmark etc. Think Kordes, Meilland, Delbard, Tantau. Those that are true British growers/breeders have developed and crossed their roses from original breeding stock obtained outside the UK. So without imports, the rose selection would be pretty dull, I imagine.
Most of the roses sold here are German and recently some Danish - The ones I have bought locally came with a Phytosanitary Certificate. Interestingly, the few David Austin roses sold here don’t come with a P.Cert...
...Roses bred here are of course very popular within the E.U. as far as Russia even... if we all took the view to only buy from our own national vendors.... well, choice would be limited... and gives us the opportunity to buy roses not available in one's own country...
...I might start a new rose thread after all Nollie.. as you suggested the other day... things are moving on.. all leafing out early... if that's ok with everyone else interested in these things...