Jim, Right now I am watching a literal river going down my long dirt driveway and feeling despair over all the lost rose blooms and broken canes. There is a thunderstorm overhead which continues on with a 1 1/2 hr. torrential downpour. Earlier today was no doubt peak rose day for the old once-bloomers and I've been calling everybody all week to beg them to come up and see the roses. I have been waiting a year for this day, peak rose day for the old roses. With all the rain, today was the one decent day and the buds opened up and were breathtaking. Only a couple of people showed up so I was out snapping hundreds of photos since it has rained everyday all June and they were predicting thunderstorms. Now the blooms are all floating down the 'rivers' that run between the rosebushes and most of the bushes have just toppled completely over from the heavy, waterlogged blooms. My brother just called me to say that they were coming over to see the roses (finally) and I said "are you crazy? You're going to need an ark to get here!" He says its sunny at his house and they've been in the pool. We both have homes on mountains and he can see my mountain from his upper deck, just 6 miles away. He says "Celeste, I can see a black cloud sitting right over your mountain and can hear thunder and the weather radar shows a bad thunderstorm situated right over your mountain but nowhere else. It is sunny all around you!" Great. Even God likes my brother more. My roses are destroyed and my basement is flooded. Our bedroom is downstairs in the basement. It was already getting mildew down there from the constantly-wet ground, but now our carpet is soggy, our clothes are moldy, and the walls are damaged. Outside, the ground is so saturated from a month of rain, there is nowhere for the 3 inches that just fell to go and my lawn and gardens are under water. The modern roses will recover and bloom again, but the Old Rose season which had just barely began, is over. There are fallen petals floating everywhere. I am usually an optimistic person, but this is just ridiculous. Sigh. Celeste

I would like to suggest Samaritan From Harkness. Would look great next to Chihuly. It is very fragrant and is orange/abricot/pink blend.See Link: another one that would be Well being from Harkness. Mordenman grows it will in a zone similiear to yours. See this post: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/roses/msg0816184615728.html Here is a link that might be useful: Samaritan

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I'm safe, yeah. I live in Laramie, which is not close to the trees. My family cabin was in danger, briefly, though. That sucked, but it's the risk you take having a cabin. I'm not a believer in global warming. No recent weather event (last few decades) is particularly unusual even in very recent history. Climate is constantly changing. How did those dead trees get in northern Canada on the tundra that were exposed from recently melting ice? Take burn acreage, this year, which is supposedly bad, but is about a tenth of the worst years in the 1920s. Plus nothing the USA does will amount to a hill of bean as far as CO2 is concerned, China is far and away the biggest producer and are on pace to grow CO2 emissions exponentially. Building literally dozens of coal power plants as we speak. India, too. Nothing we can do about it.It's all moot. So considering that, I'd prefer not to see the bird choppers (wind mills) everywhere. But anyway, we should be good stewards of the land and strive to do our best to care for it! I'm 100% committed to that.