u/MoltenCorgi

Anyone else having this issue? I'm not talking about a normal amount of spam calls. In the last 4 days or so, we have had an insane uptick in spam calls. They don't get past the menu, but it's filling up our logs, it's preventing real calls from ringing through. We conduct a lot of business via text and even closing out these fake calls is wasting tons of time. We're getting a dozen per hour or more.

I've received 5 in the last two minutes while typing this post. It's insane. I just saw we missed two client calls that came in during a flurry of the spam calls.

This subreddit was suggested to me and in the last 48 hours I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole and now I want a David Austin Rose.

Based on my growing zone (6b) and advice from locals, I’ve been told own-stock is the better choice.

I went to two different nurseries today and the first didn’t have any of the colors I am looking for. The second had a few options but no one could tell me if they were grafted or not. Three people didn’t know what “grafted” meant. And the last one without looking said every rose they have is grafted and when I said David Austin offers own stock they told me I was wrong.

Most things are sold out on the David Austin site. Heirloom Roses has a few I’m interested in and all theirs are supposed to be own root. Their website doesn’t say what phase of growth they are in - do they only ship bare root, even in June? Feels like starting with bare root mid June would just be a bit frustrating. Am I better off just buying the nursery plant thats probably grafted (it looked like it was to me but I’m not 100% sure.) Is all the DA stock that goes to nurseries usually grafted?

I plan on probably growing at least one in a container so I’m concerned about freezing and losing the grafted plant and ending up with the rootstock plant.

Do you just have to get good at spotting own root vs. grafted in the stores or is own root only available online? Do most of you buy online or at a nursery? Am I overthinking the own root plants?