Here's a mystery JJ when I bought it a week ago (maybe Desert Sunrise) We have had zero heat so here it is today

Interersting ... in that photo the flower looks very much like a hibiscus flower. :-)

Carol- better fragrance LEH or BG?? Sheesh. I don’t know. They both smell great. It’s still early on for our plants, but I think I’d personally go with Blue Girl. Today. LOL That could totally change tomorrow! ;-) OTOH LEH has LOTS more buds and blooms than Blue Girl, so on the whole is more fragrant. I also like the foliage on LEH better. Blue Girl opened some more today and it is a lovely bloom. I tend to like more of the cupped/rounded blooms, things like LEH, but BG makes my heart happy. I’ll take another picture of it when I get home today (I’m checking in on the grand dogs right now). Kristine- I’m so with you on the rodents. They are awful and have cost us a LOT of $$ and aggravation the last few years. And then they start eating our roses? Grrrr. Although I’d never get Al to move to Canada. He had to travel there for work for a few days last month. Was NOT pleased to see snow on the ground still. Total Florida boy. LOL oh!! Our Florentina is blooming. Eeeee! Knock me over with a feather. I had told Al we wouldn’t have any blooms this year either. He went and looked close at it a few weeks ago and said “oh Shan! guess whaaaaat?!”. We had moved it out of the whiskey barrel it was in last year to a spot it apparently reeeeally likes on the fence. It’s been growing like crazy, but I was so surprised by buds. We only got it from Heirloom spring 2017. I’ll get a picture of it too. It’s such a fantastic honest to goodness real red red. Can’t wait to smell it too. :-)

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for her. Let us know how she goes, and your other trial specimens. For me, the autumn foliage colours would be a extra 'pro' point for keeping her, if she can manage to bloom without much chill. Just fantasising, but it's funny how traditionally in the northern hemisphere we have greenhouses and conservatories and so on for keeping plants warm through cold winter weather, allowing many exotic species to flourish that would not otherwise survive, or do well, but I've never heard of a chill room on similar lines to enable cool-climate plants to flourish in hot countries. Perhaps someone should invent one, maybe with a small solar powered refrigeration unit... :-)