This is so strange Jackie. I have a rose that a local friend gave me during the summer. It was in a pot and not knowing what it was I didn't put it in the garden. It finally bloomed and the bloom looks exactly like your last two photos and is intensely fragrant. I called the lady and inquired about the rose. She said it was planted by her husband about 25 years ago before he passed and she didn't know its name. She also said it gets pretty large. I haven't found out the true identity yet of mine but it pretty much matches the description and pics I've seen of Aloha. Well I'm ramblin' better go get another cup of coffee.

Wasn't me. I hope you let them grow and post pictures when they bloom. You may be surprised and fall head over heals :-) Edna

Ok, YIKES, this is getting crazy trying to figure out what this is! I was sure it was Jens Munk after seeing the pictures but after doing a lot of reading about it I can almost be positive it is not. Then I thought that it may be Theresa Bugnet (sp?) as suggested in another one of my posts and I can almost be sure it isn't that either. The reason that I say this is because both say they are continual bloomers and produce bright orange hips in the fall but mine does neither. It blooms once and blooms much better in the cooler summers, like the one we are having,and with any luck will give me a few more blooms in the fall. But I can assure you that it does not repeat bloom well in the fall. I don't believe that I have ever seen a single hip produced off of it either. I can tell you that it does not get blackspot and very rarely do I see any mildew on it either. It is rarely ever bothered by insects except those nasty japanese beetles love to eat the buds. But even those have not made it out in time to eat my lovely roses this year Woohooo! I am still searching to give these wonderful roses a name but they do greatly favor the flower of Jens Munk and Theresa Bugnet. Thanks again and God bless!

Thanks, Asolo, Calliope, and Murphy. I live out in the country, on 31 acres, my property surrounded mostly by woods and fields. We used to make tofu commercially here, and our water had to be checked regularly. It always received excellent reports. Granted, that was in the 1970s and 80s, but as far as I can tell nothing much has changed insofar as my property and the neighbors' properties are concerned. Perhaps my ignorance is showing, but there are things about this situation that still puzzle me. The hot water is one of them. Yes, the sediment may have settled out in the hot water heater tank, but I would think 20 years worth of sediment would have caused a problem by now. Maybe not, but I still wonder why the problem is limited to the laundry water. We've never had a problem with water flow in the shower--and for many years five clean people lived here. Ditto the kitchen and two bathroom sinks and the dishwasher. I've never ever seen any kind of particulate in our drinking water, and believe me, I would have noticed. And any visible impurity would have been immediately apparent when we had the tofu business--tofu being a pure white product. I'll put in a call to the guys who installed the pump, and talk filters.......