Our other garden is the wife’s specialty...
Her mother used to keep a large rose bed (75+ bushes) and we put in a couple of beds when we first got married in our old house. We’ve got 20 bushes that started bare root. Bought from Jackson-Perkins. Initial quality was ok, not as good as what we used to buy from the old Test Gardens in Thomasville GA from the Hjort’s, an old Dutch couple that ran it. They specialized in roses and camellias. They had about every variety of tea, grandiflora, etc. that you could imagine. When they retired, the Test Gardens were sold and a business of some sort went up. Don’t find places like that anymore.
The Hjort’s always suggested planting on a bed of mushroom compost and garden soil and fertilize with
“Tobacco Special,” which is hard to find nowadays (the particular assay escapes me). Then follow up monthly with “Rose Special” through the growing season. It’s a lot of fun and the missus always has a bouquet for church and birthdays.