WOW! That was fast. I think you're correct, seil. Thank you! I don't have a light pink rose, and I find the color a little on the wimpy side of pink, but I'll see how it does the rest of the summer before making a decision. Chris

jbfoodie, in the larger scheme, 2 or 3 thrips isn't anything. Try again at a different time of day and look for an open bloom with many petals and a light color. Then choose a dark red or deep pink bloom and do the same thing. At times I can see a dozen or more thrips on the paper. The interesting thing is that the dark blooms will have just as many thrips but show little damage. It's something in the pigment. The two signs of heavy thrips is balling in the middle of conditions where there hasn't been rain or other heavy humidity to blame and light blooms showing the effect of dark brown on the petals' edge, as if burned with a blow torch. In my gardens, I see no thrips damage until late June. It lasts through August or so. The mid-September through October flushes are again fine. My gardens both adjoin large areas of dry grasslands that dry out by mid-June. My impression is that those meadows act as thrips breeding grounds and that once the summer foggy winds start blowing the thrips are blown into my gardens. I once tried - - exactly one time - - to spray for thrips. Hah! What a fool's errand. Between the wind, the 5 day spray cycle, and the suggested spray application on the buds only, I realized I didn't want to be that deeply involved in the day to day interactions between my roses and their bugs. My garden areas with a sizeable irrigated garden buffer between the roses and the grasses are much less troubled by thrips. Or maybe it's the direction of the wind - the roses on the western edge screen out all the thrips, and by the eastern edge, there are very few. They are a pain, but much a less a pain with many deep pink or red roses, that can be crawling with thrips, still open and show only minimal scorching on the petal edges.

Excuse me, I should have said Glowing Peace. I had one but it died. Glowing Peace is a light-yellow rose which tends to get a pink-red blush, and can finally fade to nearly-white like the rose in the photos. The ARS rose-encyclopedia "Modern Roses XI" say it averages 45 petals. Regards, JohnReb

I planted Beverly last year, I'm not sure yet how much I'm going to like the blooms, but I do think they will be very attractive, I'm anxious to see what it does this year. It is one healthy rose bush and I believe it is going to be prolific, and it is very fragrant! Mine is on multiflora. Beverly is the light pink one in the middle.