I would love to trade for your Queen Elizabeth and possibly double delight. They would have to be shipped. What are you looking for in exchange? I have mostly tropicals, edibles and orchids. I am having trouble with my email through GW so please respond at ladygardener1 at comcast dot net.

Hello All, I have a standard tree Moon Shadow hybrid tea to trade. Judging by the look of it, the plant is probably about three to four years old. About five or six feet tall. The plant is very healthy and I've maintained it well. Just starting out the garden, and am open to many different things to trade. Best is if you come and get it as this is a bit too unwieldy to mail. I live in Aliso Viejo, CA. Cheers Mike

I have grown DD in my dry and hot zone 10 climate for more than 15 years now and both my plants do great. They don't like my alkaline soil that much and can get chlorosis but this can be corrected with some citric acid and iron chelate. It's flower production is not as massive as say Firefighter or Perfume Delight or Happy Child or Sonia Rykeil but I've always got at least 1 or 2 every week in between the bigger flushes. it is consistently very fragrant in both cold and hot weather. It is one of the first to start flowering and one of the last to finish. It lasts well as a cut rose, opens slowly and looks good for a long time. It is one of my favourites of all time.

My Double Delights are in their first year and are both in the ground. One struggled at the start and is just now taking off. For the other, I have noticed that it is among the most "chintzy" of my bloomers so far. It does two or three blooms and then rests a little longer than some of my other HT's. The blooms are beautiful, though. I have convinced myself that, at least in my garden, which is in a very different climate than yours, Double Delight is just a slow starter. Mine do seem to be taking off now that it is very hot and sunny here in central California. We had an unusually cool and rainy spring here. As I mentioned in an earlier post this morning, I wonder if DD is a rose that loves hot weather.