Every rose garden in our neighborhood seemed to have had Peace in the 1960's along with 'J.F.K., and usually Tiffany a very fragrant pink blend rose in our neighborhood when I was growing up in Seattle, in Washington state. My mom grew J.F.K. and a few reds that I don't remember and what looked like 'Eclipse' an earlier yellow H.T. rose, and Mlle. Cecille Bruner' which she called "Cecil Bruner" . Other popular roses in the 60's were Queen Elizabeth ( the second) though I don't remember it being marketed as such over here. 'Pink Favorite' a disease resistant H.T. was popular over here in the 1960's Fred Loads' a vibrant orange rose that was popular in England in the late 1960's. It's a shorter rose than a typical H.T. we class it as a Florabunda. Virgo' a tall growing white H.T. that has a narrow growth habit. Several roses from the early 1900's were still being grown in the 1960's, where I lived, especially white H.T.s and a few Polyanthas; a lot of the Koster roses, Margot Koster and her clan. 'The Fairy' which is a wonderful rosebush, (folks who grow Old Garden Roses which are those roses which classes existed before 1867, often pay as much attention to the beauty or lack of , the entire bush and leaves as they do the flower of a rosebush) The Fairy has the whole package plus its' very disease resistant with small darling pink blooms and dark green leaves. 'Mrs. Herbert Stevens' had staying power and though it came from decades earlier was still being grown in the 1960's as there were so few good white Hybrid Teas. Even Mr. Austin a famous English rose breeder whose roses are presently very popular in the U.S., has said recently it is "hard to breed a good white rose" F.Y.I., If you know the name of a rose you can look up its' year of introduction and see photos of the rose, on helpmefind/roses.com Thanks for your posting and good luck with your project, it sounds fun and rewarding. Lux.

Brandy was one of my first three roses way back in the early 90s, and I brought it with us when we moved here in 1997. It is not fragrant, but it is a really good color, and blooms a lot. It holds up well here to heat, but my heat isn't the same as yours! Veterans' Honor is a really good rose. It has good substance and form, so I'd think it has a good chance of holding up to high heat. Slightly to moderately fragrant. My only complaint about it is that it tends to droopy necks. I think the blooms are a tad too large for the necks sometimes. Diana, POW, is one of my favorites. Good form and substance, great fragrance. I didn't know that it was related to Gemini, but I can definitely see the connection now that Jeri mentions it. DPOW is way more fragrant than Gemini, but it doesn't have quite the perfect form that Gemini does, but it's darned close. French Lace is another top fave of mine. Form is great, and the ecru color is quite wonderful. It is actually pretty medium fragrant for me, a nice tea fragrance that often surprises folks. In your area, sprinkler spray from the golf course will be a good thing :-D

Ok~I got my second box from Alison, and WOW I had to pick my jaw up off the floor when I opened it! I hope you got my email Alison the day I received it in the mail. I sent you a very Big Thank You email because I didn't have time to post that day. I wanted to make sure I had the time to do a proper posting on the wonderful goodies I received. Sometimes my emails don't get thru to gardenwebbers. Hope it did get to you, because I am one happy camper-as we used to say in the day-not sure if people still say that, but that's what I am! Where to begin.....let's see....well I have been searching everywhere for these blue bottles. I saw this article in one of my magazines of these gorgeous blue bottles on the ends of bamboo poles stuck in the ground all around a flower bed. I have been wanting to do this to my Son's sensory garden. Thought it would nmake a good sight addition to it. Well I have searched and searched with no luck. The only one I came across was at an antique store and they wanted 12 for one bottle-yeouch! Well when I opened that box there sat not 1 but 6 bottles! Perfect for what I would like to do. I can't wait to set this up. I will have to post pics on our site when everything is grown in around them. She also sent me these fabulous vegetarian cookbooks. I have already enjoyed bookmarking ones that I can't wait to try. I didn't have any of them. I sat down that night with the wonderful coffee you sent from England-very good by the way-I love it-the flavor is so rich-and the yummy chocolates you sent(2 bags of lindors truffles-one dark and one milk-love em). I sat on my backporch and drank coffee and browsed recipes. Very relaxing after a day working. Alison also sent me a book to go with the mosaic supplies she sent before, and she also sent more plates. I really can't wait to get this project rolling. The book is great and will be very useful, as I wasn't sure how to get started. Alison also sent some christmas pudding from England which I am going to try tonight with some more of the coffee-on the backporch of course. She also sent one of my favorite things-garden lions! I love love love garden lions and these are so cool. They are little pot feet sitters. I have the perfect pot to put on them too. It is a large pot I keep my tree rose in. With the rose and old pot it is in, it is the perfect combination with how these little guys look. I will have to get a pic of that too to post on our new site. And she even remembered my kitties. She sent a bag of cat toys. My cats went hog wild over those. My one kitty plays fetch like a dog and he has taken a liking to the dog shaped one. Too funny. Now they can leave me alone after coming in from working in the garden smelling of catnip. Does anyone else's cats do that? Mine are all over me when I come in from outside. I really hope I didn't leave anything out. This box was just so fabulous. Alison you are the best!!! I can't wait to repay your kindness when I have you as my partner to send to. Thank you Thank you Thank you-you truly made my day.~Heather

Lavenderlace: Your "Doris" day looks almost thornless. Yellow Molineux is also known as low-thorn, and fades less than Julia Child. Pat Henry of Roses Unlimited is very nice. She put up with my changes in order for spring 2017. Her husband died Oct 24, 2015 .. I'm sad for her. Here's what I wrote to Roses Unlimited regarding my order: " Found that The Dark Lady and Golden Fairy Tale both have Rugosa heritage, both are very thorny. My alkaline heavy clay isn't suitable for Rugosa (prefers sandy/loamy). Would it be possible to change that to low-thorn Nahema and Lagerfeld? I also add Barbara Streisand to make up for my sin of changing my order !! Final list is 7 roses for April 2017 delivery: Nahema, Lagerfeld, Barbra Streisand, Sonia Rykiel, Firefighter, Versigny, and Bolero." So happy that Pat Henry approved my changes. I won't make any more changes !! I got poked plenty so I'm happy with low-thorn Nahema, Firefighter, Lagerfeld. Sonia Rykiel has much less thorn than Austin roses. My buy-list consists mostly of roses that died through my zone 5a winter, the only new ones are Barbra Streisand and Lagerfeld.