Yes Devon I saw you used my picture of a bouquet of Eden roses. I also like the other roses you chose especially brass band and Disneyland. It is getting fall here in Denmark and I have been working my butt off all summer creating gardens for a number of clients. I am really getting better all the time at designing and creating beautiful gardens. People have so much money since the economy is booming and many are willing to spend $5.000 - $40.000 on their gardens since they all had new kitchens and bathrooms.The new status symbol over here are beautiful gardens. Oh Alida I wonder how your Husband would take react if another man send you flowers. It is also interesting to hear the term: When flowers are called for. Seems we call a lot more over here!!! LOL But flowers are much cheaper over here too. If I send flowers to some in US I often pay 80-100 dollars and they are not getting much :-( and most often don´t even get the colour of roses I ordered right (Mostly I give White Roses and Lilies). I once bought some relatives to a friend I was traveling with In Las Vegas Some red Roses Since she like them so much. Later that day her husband came home with 12 red roses too. And when He saw that I had given her 24 huge Red Roses in a big vase in the living room, there was a moment of embarrassment..... So I never give red roses anymore to someone (man or woman) unless I really MEAN it. White or pink roses would have been better ... I think? Lavenderrose: I think it is too early to recommend Lady Emma Hamilton. I grow it and find it is a strange roses since the leaves and buds(sepals) are so dark!!! almost blackish green and brown: I was also surprised that it was not darker, I had expected a more warm apricot colour, but mine have almost the same colour as Jude The Obcure, but are pale pink on the outer petals. Fragrance is similiar to Jude the Obscure, but it is not as strong. One of the best bright coloured golden yellow roses ever are Golden Celebration. If I only had room for one yellow that would be my choice, since it is easy to grow succesfully. It a big beautiful yellow rose!!! With a better scent than LEH. It will get big probably 6 feet tall and 4 -5 feet wide in your area. And I like it better as a cutting rose Than LEH: (This photo is bad quality because it a scan of picture ...from the pre digital camera period) Michelle: Teasing Georgia is extremely vigorous too, it even gets huge here. But The Generous Gardener is a real climber. Seattlesuze: I am happy that you have a sense of humor and don´t take things to seriously. I was really thinking the same ...people on a rose forum who do not like to get roses???? Now thats peculiar!

There are many bonsai trees bought/sold for prices in excess of one million dollars. In other countries, patrons purchase the trees as investments and entrust them to the care of their favorite (bonsai) master. It's very common for the trees winning their category at bonsai shows in Europe & Asia, especially Asia, to never have been touched (worked on) by the owner - only the master or perhaps one of his favored apprentices, depending on the value of the tree.

I sort of get the feeling we can never "so to speak "get the horse back into the barn" now after so many years of intentional and accidental transportation of various animals, insects, pests, and even plants all around the world, and having any new palm pest somewhere possibly where they could be a major problem should be a major concern, but considering how poorly we're still doing regarding preventing unwelcome species of plants and animals from migrating to other parts of the world, I'm not sure that problem can ever be controlled!! Speaking of beetles though, I've heard of how bad Japanese Beetles can be in a garden ,and it seems they only just arrived in ln my garden in the past few years, though I'm stuck with them from now on most likely, and I'd still curse the person who first brought "infected" plants in that had them many years ago. That of course is only the tip of the iceberg , where unwelcome imports are concerned, but meanwhile I still like to see new exotic, non-native species comming in, since they provide so much beauty in some cases and added interest to our gardens.

Mostly David Austin's florist roses like "Juliet", "Miranda" etc... Unfortunately they are not available to everyone to grow UNLESS you live in some asian countries where they propagate them via cuttings from what I heard (which is illegal). I think this is quite unfair because David Austin said those roses are not suited as garden plants. But when you look at some other DA roses - most of them hardly bloom and have diseases and are available to gardeners to grow.There's no other roses that have that amazing petal arrangement like the DA's florist roses. Paul Barden's "Marianne". I fell in love with this rose. The colour and foliage looks stunning. AND I don't mind that it's a once-bloomer! But I'm from Australia. I guess in the future, I might have to be a matchmaker and marry Duchess de Montebello with Abraham Darby in the hope to get something similar. But that would be a very painful wait. So far there's hardly any rose close to Marianne.