Jim, I am in MD. My list wasn't updated for long time, I have to check what I still have there. This list is just a snapshot. I do try new roses (new for me) each year trying to find the best roses for my climate. A have approx 150 roses and every year I take away approx 15-20 and add the same amount of new ones. This gave me an opportunity to try a lot of different roses over my long rose addiction life. I grow rose for more then 30 years. I do have experience with the following Kordes roses: Lavender lassie, Sunsprite, Robusta, Raubritter, Westerland, Autumn Sunset, Alchymist, Antike 89, Liebeszauber, Iceberg,Fruhlings seria roses, Illusion, Dortmund and Laverkusen. Probably some others too, but can't remember now. This year I am adding Laguna, Floral Fairy Tale and Aloha (new one). Sad to say, but with the exception of Illusion, which is quite healthy and Lavender Lassie which is not healthy but has wonderful fragrance, all others left my garden after 4-5 years. I also keep Alchymist, which is not healthy but the blooms are unique and Liebeszauber which also needs spraying but has still good vigor and better healty then majority of HT. The main reason why most of these roses left my garden was BS. I know about the new introductions and new Kordes nursery aims for resistance. I am all for it and I am trying his new introductions, but older Kordes roses are not resitant here. Our climates are very different, so I don't doubt they do well for you, but this is not the case here. Original poster is from PA, so I think we have similar climate. I didn't want to upset you by any means, I admire your dedication to Kordes roses. I know several people who tried Robusta in our climate and believe me it is a disaster here. I will update my list soon. Olga

As a water person (supervisor over drinking water lab) I can tell you that 4.0 is the upper range. Anything over isn't acceptable. But those pool kits aren't very accurate. If you are worried that it's too high, just get the water company to come over and test it for you. I do that all of the time for our customers. No chlorine is a much worse situation. It means bacteria could grow. There are low limits that we have to comply with as well. Believe me, the state of Texas, following EPA's regulations, tests the bejezus out of the water! It's ok to drink. If it wasn't, they would have to tell you. If it was an immediate hazard it would have to be over the radio or in the newspapers. If it was a long term hazard you would get letters. No city or MUD is able to fall out of compliance without letting their customers know. As for those water filters - I've had to have an expensive filter here at work for certain tests we perform. I've had to check that filter for bacteria as per state regulations. The filter takes out the chlorine and allows bacteria to grow. It's just how it works. And ours was a very expensive filter with a very expensive maintenance contract. I've had customers whose filters were causing the problems! Sorry to get on my soap box. If you smell sewer, call the number on your bill and have them come out and check. They are used to calls like that. Same thing with the chlorine smell, but they are probably dosing it at the lowest level they can to deliver the correct doses to all of their customers. While you're on the phone, ask for the information you need about the district. You can ask us anything. Literally. Everything we've got is required by law to be open for the public.

I figure this is a topic that I would like to chime in on. Salt pools in the US started becoming popular like Kelly said about 10 years ago. I as a pool builder am leary of any new technology that has not ben thouroghly tested. Even though I do install the systems when asked to I still give the pros and cons of using these systems. This all being said I have seen a trend over the past few years. For every salt system that I install I am removing 2 of the systems on other pools. Why is this you ask. In most cases it in the stone around the pool being washed away. And others are from equipment failures caused by the salt. Many will argue on here that salt is not corrosive and that bonding of a pool will solve these problems. I disagree. I build my pools properly and when I continue to have the same problems on salt pools that I do not have on Regular erosion feeder systems. I have to question what is the problem. And the common factor is the salt systems. Nothing else. As far as Ozone systems. this is another system that I do not believe in. I think it is a big waste of money. Just another gimic for you to buy to put on your pool. Now even though I do not see the problems with this system that you see with salt I do not see the benefit of using them. This all leads back to my personal opinion that they have been using chlorine for well over 100 years on pools and never have seen the service issues that we see today with all the different type of chorination and augmentations sytems that are installed now days. So if it ain't broke don't fix it. Good luck on the pool build.

This morning I went out and I'm down to 1ppm again. I bumped it back up to 75% and will run it for 9 hours and see what it looks like tomorrow. My skimmer has a few ants in it, but that's it. So as long as I'm showing high levels after the SWG runs, then that should prove that the problem is not with my generator. I'm not sure how to check it on low speed. I just turned it to low speed on my remote, went to the diagnostics menu and it is reading my salt level and voltage. I'm assuming it's working if it's reading those items? It runs on low speed from 1am until 6am. Then my high speed kicks on at 8am until 11am. When I go out at 8am, my chlorine reading is low. I would think after running 5 hours even on low speed that I would have chlorine. After running it on high speed for 4 hours yesterday, I had plenty of chlorine.