Rose Petals Nursery--

If you would like to have roses shipped during the summer, please contact us for possible ship MondaysWe do not recommend shipping in the heat but will try and work with customers, please contact us for a Monday ship date (needs to be confirmed prior to shipping).

Orders can be placed for fall shipment--you can either pay at time of ordering through PayPal or mark Pay by Check and request invoicing through PayPal a week prior to fall shipping or send a check to be received at least a week before shipping.
 
Inventory up-dated on 06/11/10.  Next inventory up-date will be late August.  Some roses are limited in numbers.  Some roses will not be restocked after they are sold out.  Our plan is to reduce the inventory numbers by next year.  Check out our larger containers available at the nursery for sale!!  


Order by Thursday  the week prior to your desired shipping date.  If you would like a different ship date, please put the date in the Comment Box. If you pay by check, check must be received by the Thursday prior to shipment.  NO shipments to California, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico.

If you are ordering MORE than 6 roses, you will need to place SEPARATE  orders, one order for 6 roses, 2nd order for rest of the roses up to 6 per box/order.  The largest box that we ship is a 6-rose-box therefore automatic calculation of more than 6 roses is not available.

For our local customers,
place your orders on-line and indicate 'pick-up'.    In the comment box or by e-mail, request a Saturday pick-up date and we will confirm the date or give other Saturday options. Local Customers, check out 'Larger Container-Local' page for roses available in 2.5--3 gallon containers.

Local Sales:  1st Saturday--10 am till 2-3 pm.  No official sale Saturdays during July & August.  If you would like to come to the nursery, please contact us to make Saturday arrangements.

Old Garden Roses are beautiful, fragrant and easy to grow.  They can live with neglect but with care they will thrive.  OGRs are tough survivors grown before the use  of chemical sprays and fertilizers.

Their flowers vary in form and color according to variety.  Some look like 5-petaled apple blossoms, others are round and full.  Their fragrances can range from slight to strong.

There is a past with each Old Garden Rose that you grow.  It was taken from a cutting of a rose that was taken from a cutting of a rose all the way back to the original plant. It is part of a plant that crossed the Atlantic Ocean during the 1800's or crossed America in a covered wagon with a pioneer family taking part of their past to their new home.

Enjoy your Old Garden Roses and be sure to always take a moment to Stop and Smell the Roses!!!

We are members of the American Rose Society and our local Gainesville Rose Society.

What are Earth Kind Roses?

The Earth Kind Rose Program began in 1996 after landscape professionals asked Texas A&M University researcher Dr. George for recommendations on roses that not only gave outstanding performance in the southern garden but were low maintenance. Testing was started in 1996 in the worst conditions for roses.  The roses did not receive any supplemental watering after the first year, they were never pruned other than to remove dead wood and they were never sprayed. The only thing added to the roses was a 4 inch layer of hardwood chip mulch each year.  The Earth Kind Roses are:  Belinda's Dream, Caldwell Pink (Pink Pet), Carefree Beauty, Climbing Pinkie, Ducher, Duchesse de Brabant, Knock Out, Else Poulsen, Marie Daly, Mutabilis, New Dawn, Perle d'Or, Sea Foam, Souv. de St. Anne, Spice and The Fairy.


What are Dr. Griffith Buck Roses?

Recently, there has been a huge resurgence of a breed of roses hybridized by the legendary Dr. Griffith Buck of Iowa State University.  Starting around 1965, Dr. Buck's dream was to create roses that were hardy in the freezing winters of Iowa.   He also knew that unless roses became easier to grow people would just not bother.  Times were lean and there was no money for spraying programs, so as a result not only did these cultivars make it through those early winters, but just by natural selection those that survived proved to be extremely disease resistant as well during Iowa’s hot and humid summers.  Carefree Beauty is one of Dr. Buck's best known roses and is the parent of Knock Out.  He has given us some of the most beautiful and uniquely colored roses of modern times and as a plus they are environmentally friendly due to their natural disease resistance and are quite water-conservative once established.