Thanks!! I believe I have Painted Lady Rose Campion... Looks good next to my already established Lamb's ear... Thanks for the help.

I have no idea of flowering times where you are, Jacqueline, but for me, in the UK, I would not expect to see a musk until long after most of the others have flowered, even into early July. The other thing that throws me a bit (and brings up R.brunonii again) is the shape of the petals - all the musk roses seem to have a slightly dog-eared indented look to the petals, almost concave at the outer edges, whereas your pics seem to be more pointed. I know that brunonii is often confused with musks, having the same slightly fuzzy leaves. Mmm, do you have the Thomas Christopher book, In search of lost roses because I think there is some discussion in there about the GT musk.....or check out Climbing Roses, Old and New (that's the part of the trilogy I do not have, of course).

The flowers displayed on this page left me breathless. Mcrean1's yard is spectacular (as is her front porch). Those roses on this page are to die for! Simply amazing! That bucket of iceplants is so beautiful...can anyone tell me more about them? Are they an annual or a perennial? For how long do they bloom? Will they survive a cold climate where the temperature drops to forty below zero?

The only upkeep I do is to trim off the dead flowers at the end of the season and trim out the little bit of dead wood each spring. If you look at my photo from last August you will see what my Little Lamb looks like. That is pretty much what it looked like later in the season. This season is might be slightly larger, but there is no sign it will be floppy. I may have just purchased a very mature shrub. It doesn't lay on the ground the way people describe. I believe I planted it summer of 2008, but it was a fairly large plant (although I recall it had almost no roots, I was actually worried it wouldn't make it), so it isn't *really* just 3 years old. I actually mis-purchased...I wanted something that would get large for that corner (like Tardiva), but I'm happy with it. If you want floppy, you should see my Swan.