Is that ketchup&mustard? I don't like the name at all. It's nota rose I grow called half time ( not a favorite name either ) 1/2 time is more thorny than this is but every bit as beautiful. Vintage has a virus free version listed. I put pictures of my 1/2 time up in the rose gallery recently around thanksgiving. Not the best bloomer, but the blooms I get are wonderful.

I have a similar set up....two L's (or call it a G with a gap)...and have always loved the unfitted, grown over time look of mismatched cabinets. I intend to divide mine into uppers and lowers (with a third color in the someewhat separated butlers' pantry/scullery section of the kitchen. In the main area, the base cabs will be BM Webster green, the upper cabs a golden oak. I fear it would look a bit odd to have one L one color and the other completely different. It might be possible however to do most of both L's one color and one stretch of cabinets within one L (or both) a contrast color. the trick is to pick some section that is a coherent "unit"...as if that section were added at a different time. That's why it works to do uppers and bottoms different , or, for example, to paint tall end cabinets along one wall black and the run of lower cabinets in between them white. Perhaps one or both of your L's have a similar discrete section that could be painted a contrast color?

Noseometer, what a great story! I've read for decades about folks who "accidentally" rooted cut roses in water, but could never pull it off, and I've tried. This is why this situation surprises me so much. Given that you put it in perlite, did you keep it extra wet, or just damp? Erasmus, I have the same experience with some being really tough to root. One of my rarest, and most beloved, roses is Westminster Pink, which I have made 25-30 cuttings of in the past 2 years, with only one success. It's an extremely healthy and vigorous plant. I finally sent budwood to Steve at Wisc Roses summer 2021 and he sent me 4 plants in November 2021. This rose I'm writing about is Pink Intuition, which is equally healthy and vigorous. I always figured it would be easy to root, but when I started trying last fall for a trading partner, I've had 3 fails. The interesting thing is that both of these roses were originally budded onto multiflora, are extremely vigorous and keep leaves well, and I've had them both for ~20 years. Gonna try Westminster Pink next with the water thing, since their vigor is similar. I read a great article about the burrito method by Kim Rupert a year or so ago, but I decided it might be more than I was willing to do. And yes on the variation in results that surprise you from try to try... I finally got a Sun Goddess to root a couple of months ago, after many tries. Straw, wow on your OK cutting from CA that rooted! I used to bring rose cuttings home from rose road trips to No. Calif in the 2000s, and I kept them in plastic bags in a cooler. So I know they can survive the trip via mail or car for a couple of days. Vapor, I know they don't like light, but I kind of wonder about how much light my stems are getting in those conditions... maybe more than optimal? Maybe it was slightly more than we think is optimal? No clue. I'm gonna try to strike these tomorrow. I noticed today that the callus is getting bigger on both.

@rosaprimula UK (Cambridge) Z8/9 Oh that 'Odyssey' looks like such a beauty! Much like 'Lilac Charm' ("ethereal" is good word), but with an extra circle of petals -- too bad 'Odyssey' hasn't made it over here yet. 'Blue for You' in the HMF photos looks like a rose I might love. I have grown 'Eyes for You', too and, while it was "nice", I didn't love it -- the big clusters of flowers often ended in a badly-mixed mess of dingy spent blooms marring the beauty of the new blooms in the cluster, to an extent I found annoying -- constantly having to "clean it up" to enjoy it.