Hmmm... I looked at some photos of Pittsfield and Napery and they're lovely, but they're just a step under what I'm looking for. If this abstraction helps at all, I'm looking for one step beyond "safe". Not over-the-top dramatic and too dark, but not super neutral. The wall colors are fine. If all I had to worry about was the walls, I'd just stick with the Twilight Gold. It's the darned 8 ft ceilings. Harumph. I guess I need a camel color that is not as deep as Twilight Gold. I keep ignoring my painter's calls! ::Gulp::

Can't wait to grow this beauty this summer. Looks to be a beauty!!

Definitely go ahead and clean up the old mulch, get rid of any diseased material, any nasty old leaves. Put down fresh clean mulch. But personally I would not actually spray with anything yet. I would wait until it's closer to spring. The deal with winter in the South (even the upper south) is this: many roses really don't go fully dormant at all. They winter over like other bushes, and can even put on some new growth in nice temperatures. But it's still winter, and we could still get a killing frost at any point. My approach is to just sort of not stress them. Don't feed them, don't put oils or sprays on them, just let them do their thing, whatever they want to do. They will make it through the winter fine. As you probably have realized, in the South the trick with roses is getting through the summer, not the winter. I've never lost a rose to winter. It's all about summer: disease pressure, water issues, etc.

All pretty colours. Top Sail is in the Green Hue Family the others mentioned are all in the Blue-Green Hue Family. Lookout Point is the most greyed of all the colours. Tradewind, although almost 9 points darker, is a more colourful colour than Lookout Point. Any of these colours mentioned will look pretty with those gold decals. It may help you decide by thinking just how much contrast you want the decals to have with wall colour? Subtle variation which you catch by the change of light as you move, or a strong contrast? When you narrow your choice down, I would paint up a couple of boards and apply the decals too. Place them vertically in your space to match the plane of the wall.