These gardens are so very German! No glamour or opulence of any kind, just a myriad of stunning rose bushes in bloom and a flowery lawn to showcase them, amazing! I absolutely love German Roses and I do have quite a collection of both Tantau and Kordes plants. Thanks for taking us along, bye 🌹

DA say all Roses must be planted 3 Crocs apart. Great Tour! Thanks for taking us along Jay

Thankyou so much for this fantastic tour! I was unfamiliar with Tantau, but I am VERY VERY impressed! ~ from Washington state USA

Wow! I was so excited to see this video because I am planning to order few roses from Tantau and this helps a lot to finally order what I want. It looks better to see the rose plant even in a video compared to looking at a catalogue. I am after of the new rose called ‘Creme Brûlée, very beautiful colour. Starlet Eva and Ozeana are already in my wish list. Some of the roses that they planted there are the ones which are popular and got a lot of international recognitions. I got already some of them in my garden and I’m not surprised if you choose Hansestadt Rostock, it has incredible colour, it’s glowing and beautiful even in the evening. Well done Jay Jay! You made a lot of rose lovers happy with this video.🌹🌹🌹

Well Lovely Videographer....on a purely selfish note, i am so glad you brought 'plan B' into practice, drove over 500 miles through torrential rain and slept in the car just to Tantaulise us with beautiful rose after beautiful rose....after all,.it could have been a right croc !⁴ Thank you for sharing Jay Jay ❤️❤️🌹🌹❤️❤️

That's is a lovely video and you did a great job of filming!❤❤❤

Thank you for your kind words about the german style… and thanks for showing us the beautyful roses there! I live just 1,5 hours away and wasn‘t been there anytime 😂. Now I know that saving money for a rosegarden trip to the UK is a good idea 😊.

In love with rosa Ozeana 😍I love the red colored stems and buds, and the upright position of its rose. and its pink color is so deep 😍!

As a German, I can comment on the style of garden actually. It is a very oldschool 50s-60s style of gardening, in the postwar period it was all about an orderly garden with a few insects as possible and an accurate lawn. Bees, insects, wildflowers were considered disorderly and not encouraged. This trend continued into the 70s with other plants introduced that are easy to manage and don’t harbour a lot of birds or insects such an conifers, cherry laurel etc. We are still dealing with the leftovers of those. In the 2000s, especially with the campaign „save the bees“ there is a return to more natural gardening but it is still a long way. But yes, Tantau didn’t get the memo yet!

Thank you for showing us these roses. I wish they and the Meiland roses were more available in the US. Your right about the marketing. You should go to Meiland headquarters next time. You could do a live chat to fund raise for the next trip so you wouldn't have to sleep in your car!

Thank you so much for sharing my most favorite flower 🌹🌹🌹

Wow, it was great tour for sure to see the beautiful roses one to one. Nostalgic series roses of Tantau are very popular for their beauty, fragrance and long lasting habits. I agree that red colour roses never look real in video or photographs. Thanks for sharing taking us along.

That Mary Ann rose is phenomenal!

Sehr schön 😊🎉

Oh Jay Jay…for the record: Attention, seen last week at Tantau Headquarters, a slightly confused Person running around between different Rosebushes, throwing his Croque into the Flowerbed….😂😂😂 If you like Soul so much you should take a look into Gospel, smaller in height, blueish leaves, Burgundy coloured 2.5 inch flowers with an incredible deep scent of old Roses…great in a Pot…and don’t trust their height expectations, Souls after 4 years gets up to 6 foot…without support on its tree like stems thanks for showing…the not so spectacular German Rose Garden…😂😂😂you should make another Trip to Steinfurth, Rosen Schultheiß holds the National Collection of old Roses and it’s beautiful there, they Celebrate the Week of the Roses over there in July…😂❤

Beautiful roses❤❤❤ thanks for sharing

Wonderful varieties of beautiful roses! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻! Handestant Rostok is one of the healthiest rose I know! The most healthiest I would say. Available in the UK under name Queen Bee. Grows definitely taller than 80cm but not very tall, grows more wider than taller, flowers later than other roses, good to keep wavy trend of blooming roses in the garden, covered with frowers, keep them for a long time. Mary Ann is one of my favourite. Awaiting to have her as standard tree. She is a sister of Chippendale. Sophie Luise highly recommended for aroma 👍🏻🌹❤️ Doesnt like direct sun. Red Piano available in the UK under name Hope and Glory. Might not open buds fully in the UK, probably better in warmer climate. But in sime gardens in the UK doing absolutely fantastic. Need some time maybe. Lots of roses you showed, which was very interesting to see in real life. Very and very interesting!!! Thank you Jay Jay 🌹❤️

Wow, wow. Their rose health is impressive. I would not leave without Mary Anne. Jay Jay you have just given me a new goal for this year: Find Mary Anne.!!

Beautiful ❤

So you have managed to visit Germany in the end, I am very happy for you! Hansestadt Rostock is the name of the city called ... Rostock which used to be a member of the Hanseatic League :-) It is a beautiful rose, I cannot recommend it enough. I have five Stadt Rom (City of Rome) roses which are covered in flowers right now, they flower for ever and are really healthy. They are in fact ground cover roses. You are absolutely right, in Germany they do not spray with much hence you saw black spot on some of the roses at the Tantau Rosen. Tantau and Kordes do not need to worry about marketing, nurseries all over central Europe take care of it :-)

Thank you for showing Tantau headquaters❤ I think I would pick Ozeana, beautiful rose😍. Wonder how far you were from Europa-Rosarium in Germany.

great fun. wish I could do that. I got two Eva climbers for my front door, Tantau gifted them to me after a bad experience with two Camelot climbers. Eva is a wee stormer, pumping out blooms and they are lasting about three weeks before going very pale pink then shattering. No fragrance so far. I also have Giardina, like gorgeous peonies, Ive had it three years and its only about 6 feet with zero fragrance but I love the form and colour and its healthy. Pastella is super pretty, healthy and floriferous, zero fragrance after three years. Also Augusta Louise, stunning colouration and in its third year is fragrant. Got pomponella and 7 leonardo da vinci this year, bit patchy settling in though. But great fun to se you at Tantau.

Enjoyed the tour. It's great that you took the time to show how far apart they have been planted. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for showing us Jay Jay as it's a place I'll never see in person. I think Ken's got his eye on Mary Ann so we may see it in his garden one day. No wonder roses have been voted as our favourite flowers of all time.

Wow, I love this. Im not too sure these roses are sold here in Australia. Never heard of any of them. Thanks for sharing Jay Jay, don't forget to hydrate in Germany ! Enjoy and stay safe.

thanks for bringing me to germany - i cannot afford to travel haha so seeing places like this is fantastic from your tour.. impressed with alot of the tantau and its blooms are very upright and standing. DA seem to have alot of nodding , drooping blooms.

Fantastic video JJ. Although the “garden” is rather interesting, no shop or visitors. Reminds me of your Eastcroft visit. Except this time measuring with your Croc not Peter’s knee😂 I hope sleeping in your car wasn’t too uncomfortable for you. It definitely adds to the experience of your adventure. Thanks for sacrificing for our enjoyment!

I hope you bougth Hansestadt Rostock - it is a stellar rose! Very short, but always in flower and always healthy. One of the best Tantau roses. You should have called them in advance, I am sure the could have interviewed someone.

Greetings from Kentucky Jay Jay. Thank you for your tour. My gosh so many beautiful roses! I think my favorite rose was "Rosario". Pink roses are my favorite. James

Thanks for sharing the tour. We are all so grateful. Yes Mary any, Gemma from garden gems sold me that rose. Unfortunately it is only available in lottum as with many other tantau’s . Lin and myself have agreed to place an order in autumn. Seeing this video has really helped a lot.

Thank you for taking us along with your tour! Not so good rose garden to visit but beautiful roses to be honest. I have been wanting the three Piano roses for long time but cannot find anywhere in Australia. Sorry to hear your motor home is broke down. Drive carefully JJ

Oh my! Lovely tour and I so wish those roses were more available in the US. You are spot on with the marketing as well. I can't wait to see the rest of the videos.

Beautiful beautiful video Jay. I love the “industry unit” park-Everything straight & clear. I have never been there because it’s very far away. Thank you very much to drive through all these trouble to show us. “Stadt” is “city” and many German rose have “Stadt” in the name. But I must confess, I paused the video to laugh when the Artemis rose appear 😂 😂I had that rose before, so I laugh with all confidence too.😂

Wonderful rose . I started to like tantau roses. i bought agusta luise, tropicana ans sofie luise rose recently and the roses was wow. Love love. Great vedio jay jay well done

Fantastic voyage to the holy source! Royal Piano is now on my list! Love Wedding Piano, got it because of you. I have Mary Ann, love her. I also have Tropicana (2012) by Tantau, perfect rose. I'm becoming obsessed with Tantau genius!

Comment as I go through the video. Slept in your car Jay jay! I guess a quart in a pint pot. How much sleep did you get? The roses have certainly weathered the storm OK. As we progress, some really lovely roses - very useful descriptions. As you say, Piano - what a rose. Come the end, you've certainly done these roses justice. So many lovely roses to choose from. It would be lovely to see them again in Aug/Sept so see how they've done over the Summer. Enjoyed. P.

Awesome video mate :D

Such beautiful roses I want them all😍♥️✨

Wow thank you for doing this tour you made it to Germany - plan B. I hope your back was okay with sleeping in your car. Very interesting to see the different approaches taken, no bells & whistles just stunning healthy roses. I planted bare root Augusta Luise and Pastella at the start of the year but so far they have not flowered I'm seeing buds, they are slow to get going this year maybe all the rain we've had but hopefully next year will be better for them. Rosario was my favourite I am a sucker for the cluster roses look and pink - it has to go on the list :) Looking forward to Kordes next. Thanks so much for sharing this you did a great job.

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Outstanding! Sadly, most Tantau roses are not available here in America. Royal Piano was stunning!

26:00 I see a sort of Seven Sisters coloration thing going on with your favorite rose. Seven Sisters here in the USA got the name because most racemes contain more or less 7 blooms and they open a well saturated pink which rather quickly fades and each bloom on the raceme has it's own color ranging from deep pink aging on to nearly white. My grandmother, passed on, born 1913 would from time to time mention the Seven Sisters at the homestead where she grew up out in farmlands. Mine recently died from abuse inflicted on it by family, I must get a new one and keep it in a huge pot where I can control it's environment. Anyhow, your favoite rose appaears to begin as yellow, quickly transition to orange, and then on to apricot and then fading out to a whitish apricot. Fascinating.

Hi Jay Jay, I love the video! Sometimes a walk around a garden or garden centre after a rain storm can teach you a lot about the way a plant's blooms handle wet weather ( very important here in NW England!) In the UK, Artemis is marketed as "Sweet Child of Mine." It really is a beautiful rose!

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I love the lemon 🍋 one that you like

Lovely to see the Roses. Even if there’s only a small display. Hansestadt Rostock is known as Queen Bee here. I have 2. There is a light fragrance but blooms last ages.

Omg I love that beautiful pink rose never seen anything so lush! I also love the wedding piano rose . I want to find it but chances are slim I’m sure here in the USA!👍😎❤️❤️❤️❤️

That was really interesting Jay Jay - thanks for going there to show us those roses we don't tend to see in the UK. Ozeana for me I think if I was buying one., although sometimes what you see in real life has a different impact than an image on screen. I wasn't aware that the EU had introduced the Croc unit of measurement - is there a conversion table online? Looking forward to part two.

My favorite Tantan roses are Chippendale, Eisvogel, Voyage and Soul.

Yes Mary Ann was my favourite fantastic colour I have a rosen tantau called Augusta luise 9 out 10 for fragrance and great health

Thank you for sharing your visit JayJay, so many beautiful roses, i dont know how you came away with one, much stronger willed than i can ever be:) I would have to try for that Mary Ann, not only because its gorgeous but my grandmother's name. Also Handestant Rostok ( thank you "mycutegarden" for the UK name Queen Bee ). I have a pair of crocs so that will allow me to get more roses😂 if its good enough for Tantau and if memory serves your visit to DA shows they plant closer too 😊 Can I ask, is rose Rosario aka "Happy Retirement" , I ask because when I look on Tantau website they say 'Synonym: Happy Retirement ' ??

Thanks for the tour Jay jay. There seem to be quite few Tantau roses that are not for sale in the UK. Do you know anyone selling Mary Ann in the UK under a different name perhaps? Soul is amazing, I have 2, but as someone mentioned, it gets tall, so for the back of a border or as a short climber perhaps. Did you happen to come across rose Anuschka at Tantau while you were there? Ozeana was my favourite of the lot I think, I might need to look into that one.

Okay, but what did you get for Dilly? 😂 I wish you recorded sleeping in your car on the way back, having blooming rose tree next to you 😅 hope to see that! Great adventure though, thanks 🌹

1:52 Let's name THIS rose "Quarterella" because she is beautifully quartered, her pink is gorgeous, but we are so accustomed to gorgeous pink that we take it for granted. How is she for fragrance? 7:18 , yes, I would sleep in the car also, I would be thinking how many rose plants will the cost of lodging buy me??😆😆 I would rather spend the money on new rose plants than to spend the money in the roach motel! 😄😄 8:51 "Hey Marry Ann, what's your game now, can anybody play...." LOL! 11:20 Artrmis appears to have the globular form that I adore.Also stuffed to the gills with petals. 12:10 I have wondered if low, moist, cool valley air feeds blackspot, but high, dry, circulating air at hilltops discourages it?? Is Tantau on high ground? David Austin would most certainly have moist air coming in off of the Atlantic Ocean. 20:06 Nice globular form, old victorian romantic, and I love those flecks of pink, also, blossoms not full blown have that green, fascinating ting around the petal edges like Paschmina Veranda has, I want one! LOL! Wedding Piano, I think that I have seen that offered in the states, I'll study it and it's "Dunft" fragrance. That green tinge of unopened buds may suggest a common ancestry to Paschmina which has no fragrance. I really have no interest in roses posessing no fragrance, UNLESS, they have some other stellar features, primarily, old, romantic, Victorian, cabbage rose form, and if they nod, I keep them in giant pots, and raise them up off of the ground 2 or 3 feet, to eye level, they can be better observed at that hieight anyhow. Also, if the green flower tinge indicates a common ancestry to Paschmina, the Wedding Piano may possibly have the very long bloom retention that Paschmina has. Alas, I see no USA sources for Wedding Piano. My next search will be at Etsy. Asian rose sellers sell roses of these types but they put their own names to them. Anyhow thank you so much for taking us to Tantau! Ralph in Ohio I state my name because listening to call in talk independent radio for 30 years as I work at my workbench, callers state their name and location. Any discussions of gardening really should mention location in order to interpret growth performance in terms of location.

Piano buds look just like peonies! What is the best site to get German roses in the UK, please?..Thanks for the video, much appreciated!!!

you should visit a Rosarium in Germany...

Enjoyed the video. Can you tell me what the orange rose is at 6.49 before you scan around? Thanks.

So, which did you buy? Hansestadt Rostock?

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