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Burlington Rose Nursery
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I recently ordered the Purple Lodge rose from Burlington, and I couldn’t be happier with the experience. The plant arrived quickly, with very affordable shipping, and even though there was a $17 agricultural inspection fee due to Arizona regulations, that’s not Burlington’s fault. They made the process smooth, and the rose arrived in fantastic condition—it's a large, healthy plant that’s already looking great. I’m definitely planning to place a larger order next time to make the fee worthwhile, especially since it’s per order, not per rose. I’m also open to any suggestions for other must-have roses they grow!
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Please note HMF provides for quest rating of nurseries as well as other organizations listed.
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience!
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Excellent nursery set up, very healthy roses. Very impressed with my vist to this nursery. Will definitely visit and buy from again.
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Is this nursery still selling roses in 2024? The web page isn't up and running, no real way to contact her. Anyone know what's happening?
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Yes she is still selling roses, including some very rare ones not available anywhere else. But she NEVER had a working website ordering process. She’s not up to that technologically. But you can email her and get her current list of minis and regular sized roses and you will get an answer in less than a day at BurlingL@aol.com. And she will send them promptly.
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Thank you so very much. Really appreciate it.
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What does it mean “phytosanitary certificates required” for certain states? I live in Texas. Can this nursery ship roses to me?
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It means the nursery has to get a certificate to say the plant being shipped has been inspected and has no bugs or diseases. This inspection is usually expensive. As the HelpMeFind page for Burlington says, a certificate is needed for Texas.
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22 DEC 19 by
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Certificate for inspection costs 27.00 shipping to one address. Texas requires roses shipped from California to Texas must be inspected by Ag. Dept.
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This is the 3rd time I order from Burlington. Her roses are deep-rooted, and the shipping cost to my Chicagoland is low. She can fit up to 6 roses in a medium-flat-rate box ($13.6 priority mail for 2017). I got info. about thorns too late, but she's happy to change the order minutes before shipping !! All my 3 orders for the past years are packed very well, plants are healthy & zero diseases. It's a pleasure to buy from Burling, both for the quality of her plants & low cost own-root roses, and excellent service.
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I plan to order from Burlington next spring. Is it better to contact the nursery by phone or email?
Have you found that your roses planted in late summer/fall are surviving the cold winters?
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Nastarana: I get faster response contacting nurseries via e-mail, plus I don't want to interrupt nurseries when they are at work. Roses planted in late fall survive winter equally well IF THE SOIL IS ALKALINE with good drainage. Many years ago I got own-root William Shakespeare 2000 early September as a tiny band. To winterize I piled up my clay & horse manure at pH 8 and it's doing great as 7th-year own-root. But I killed at least 5 mature & few-years old own-root roses by making the soil acidic. The winter which I piled up acidic leaves have the worst winter-survival with black-canker canes. This summer I piled up acidic grass clippings too close to Neil Diamond's cane, and one cane got acid-burn: completely black and withered. Most of my 110 own-root varieties prefer alkaline.
One winter Wise Portia had 1 foot of green canes in Feb. Then I poured used & acidic grapefruit juice (meant for my azaleas) .. and it died to crown, didn't sprout leaves until late July.
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Dear Straw, I agree with you about not interrupting people at work. My soil is heavy clay loam, river bottom with lots of rocks, which probably do improve the drainage. Ph, before being improved by compost, tends to be around 5.5.
The Syracuse Rose Society makes a group order from Palatine in fall. I bought one plant last year, 'Variegata de Bologna', which arrived and I planted in Nov.! It survived the relatively mild, for us, winter, and is growing now. I would guess that the multiflora rootstalk does thrive in the soil we have here.
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Nastarana: Your slightly acidic heavy clay is perfect for own-root roses, which prefer slightly acidic to grow fast. I tried to make broccoli-sprouts to eat with my pH 9 tap-water, and I gave up. Zero sprouting after 10 days, versus my Mom made bean-sprout easily with her neutral tap-water. I always put own-roots in neutral pH & fluffy potting soil until their roots become woody to handle my rock-hard clay. After a few months, these "alfalfa sprout" own-root become chunky & woody ... then they are able to handle alkaline clay, given acidic rain-water to release the minerals to feed roses. It's easier to grow own-roots in high-rain regions, pH of rain here is 4.5, versus 5.6 on the West coast.
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