Lucky you!! I've bought small coffee plants at our local greenhouse because I love the look of the leaves. In no time they turned brown. They need lots of humidity. Every once in a while I get the urge to try again, especially since Hopeful_author (on the houseplant forum) has had a coffee plant/tree for years and hers flourishes. This post was edited by jasdip on Mon, Jul 7, 14 at 15:16

Thanks Doug. The picture is taken by a friend Sye - showing a full bed of these amazing roses. It does have an apricot center - but the flowers fade to white as they age. This rose is becoming very popular here - and it is not hard to see why. A neighbour grew it - and it really did well for them - I also noticed it was doing extraordinary well in the park. My plants (grafted on multi-flora) - took off like very few other roses I have grown!!! Kate - Even in the last 2 very wet and rainy summers - where many roses have gotten more blackspot - and rust - this rose have been totally clean - no BS, rust or mildew. It seems to be disease-resistant - I have not sprayed them - there was no need to. The rose has very healthy glossy leaves - a man filmed in England filmed a potted plant he had bought and put it on YouTube - see link - not the best quality video - but it will give you a look - I am sure if he planted it, it would put out basal shots and grow twice as big - in just a few months. Truly a remarkable rose! Here is a link that might be useful: Potted Chandos Beauty - YouTube

Josh, thank you for the suggestion. It's interesting that your 'Cramoisi Supeurieur' is very fragrant. It's often confused with 'Louis Philippe', and depending on the nursery which carries both, one is often claimed to be very fragrant and the other not. I got my 'Louis Philippe' from Rogue Valley Roses, who put their LP as the fragrant one. I understand that other nurseries do the reverse. I'm still not 100% positive that I actually got LP, being as my rose hasn't had a fully double bloom yet, but it has been progressing in that direction since the first bloom. We'll see what it does in Spring, but I might just pester you to root your fragrant red China for me. Lori, thank you for the heads-up. I planted some Chinas and Teas in the ground this year, so perhaps it'd be wise for me to hold-off on getting more until after the peak of Winter has passed here, and see how they look. I do have space for overwintering protection of planters which need it, so I'll keep that in mind. I do plan on heading down to Florida after grad school, but my interest in having some fragrant Chinas and small Teas was in playing with hybridizing -- so it's more than just having them now to bring with me later. I want to try making new Noisettes, but broadening the gene pool by using Chinas other than 'Old Blush', and Teas other than 'Parks Yellow', and see what happens. I'd also like to see how 'Reverend Seidel' works in place of its parent, 'Rosa moschata' -- just a little hobby project. As far as blackspot, it's hard to tell with what I planted so far. BS definitely did make a run through the yard this Summer, but most of what got hit was still in pots and kind of crammed together, waiting to be planted in the ground. I think that along the Atlantic, BS is just inevitable, and as long as the roses can shake it off (as they appear to have done here after a few weeks when left to their own devices), I'm not going to resort to fungicides. About as far as I'll go is neem oil in a Cornell mix spray, or lye soap for the hotter months. :-) ~Christopher

I found the mother hosta but sadly no tag on her. I went back to my photo copies of hosta placement in my garden beds and the number on the picture and the number in my current hosta list aren't the same. Man have my fingers been doing some walking!!!!!! Sooooo hosta people, I'm not much help to you. What I did do is pick a leaf from each and that's how I made my match. I also have the last blooming flower on either plant in my pictures. Hope that helps. Connie Put on your thinking caps. This mystery can be solved. Things can get out of hand when you collect too many hostas and they have for me. Thank you all again for helping.