I like dress 1 and 2 equally. That Whitecake Sugars is magical! I can envision a Christmas themed wedding for certain with that! I also love the brown and pink, but I'd have to do something more like Tiffany blue and green, but I love the dots, the flowers, it's adorable. Good choice of word. Oh, I do so enjoy seeing people in love. Your face shows it so much.

Fire will kill the potatoes. If you have a lot of dead leaves and grass and whatnot, you could do a controlled burn on a very windless day with several charged garden hoses at the ready. That's the way my dad did it back in the day before Roundup existed. You may need a burn permit from your local authorities, though.

Echo, you said you have purple. I am pretty sure that is a devil's trumpet or a datura, not an Angel's trumpet which is a Brugmansia. If the flower goes up, it is a datura and is an annual and will die off. Save the seeds and replant in spring. :o) If the flowers hang down as if a trumpet was being blown from heaven, it is a brugmansia. Datura's look like a trumpet being blown from h---.

Of course climate makes all the difference, but I will share my observations on those in my old "extreme heat, extreme fire danger" climate. The only one I have grown in my new coastal-beach climate is Blue for You. Route 66 and Ebb Tide are both very weak with "compromised" foliage in that climate. Neither can withstand hours of direct, unrelenting sun and heat. Both demand protection from the hottest of both to be any good. I avoided Rhapsody in Blue because it was known in that area for having black spot issues. Again, something that is going to be quite variable due to the strains of the disease group existing in the area, but if I am going to breed with it, I want to use those proven to be as resistant where I am as possible. Jiminshermanoaks was a great friend, who lived eight miles east of me, about as far from the ocean as I was. He lived in the Sepulveda Pass, between West LA and the San Fernando Valley, so he had a great deal more of the marine influence, heavy fogs and ten to fifteen degrees cooler than where I lived in Encino. His experience with Rhapsody was that it flowered marvelously in the "coolth", as he described it, but it stopped flowering when it got hot there. He loved the color and scent, but not the climbing habit nor its refusal to flower when hot. Another friend, who lives in the Santa Clarita Valley and grows bazillians of roses in large pots on her massive patio, grows all three (and MANY more!). I worked her roses for most of a year and observed that even with filtered light through surrounding trees and her large patio cover, Route 66 and Ebb Tide were difficult and never developed in to the full bushes desired. She spends a great deal on very good soil; feeds regularly; sprays for diseases and insects; and waters copiously and she grows some spectacular plants and blooms. She's delighted with any and every flower that develops, but in those conditions, Ebb Tide and Route 66 are "also ran" types. Twilight Zone is significantly better for her that those two for health, quality of foliage, density of plant and plant architecture. Rhapsody in Blue is acceptably healthy for her and it definitely climbs. Its flower production also slows to a stop in the highest heat, and hers is heavily mitigated by the surrounding border of large trees which line her lot and defends it against the bordering streets. Her roses receive little reflected/radiated heat from the hard scape because her plants are large and the foliage mass is sufficiently dense to shade the concrete most of the time. My Blue for You is own root and trapped in a seven gallon can of MG moisture control potting soil. The soil prep, tree (and extreme root) removal and re grading have yet to be accomplished to permit planting anything in the ground. Yes, the flowers crisp in the worst of the too brilliant sun and UV and the higher heat spikes, though mine are significantly lower than yours as far as "heat", so far. But, you expect that. Flower petals are the most sensitive, tender and fleeting of all the tissues the plant produces. They are its "ovulation", meant to attract pollinators to perpetuate the species. Of course, they are the precise reason we grow all of them, but they aren't supposed to last long, only until something pollinates the bloom, or it pollinates itself. Even in my cooler, damper conditions, all of the roses demand some protection from the highest, brightest, hottest of the sun for their flowers to last any length of time. For many, I can't provide that as the area is too large and there are too many to protect. And, from what I have been observing for the past several years, it is increasing, getting worse.