I agree that Julia Child is a wonderful yellow floribunda. For a hybrid tea, my recommendation if the new one last year, Welcome Home. Although a beautiful color and with great scent, I do not recommend Radiant Perfume. It doesn't have enough petals, blackspots, and blows fast!

What a pretty rose, and I enjoyed the photo of the Cape Cod house. As a child, I got to visit Nantucket Island and walk around for an afternoon and was delighted by all the roses. I passed this up before because I didn't think your rose was suitable for my zone (which I normally expect on this forum) but was surprised to see it is z5 at Ashdown. The shade aspect is impressive, need one that will perform reliably in shade maybe not as deep as that. The clematis, Polish Spirit, is blooming like crazy at the top, not a good time of day to take a photo. It was in a small pot last year, and I had trouble finding one. It needs a rose in front of it to break the uninteresting vertical lines as was the original plan. Maybe 4+ hours is all it gets there. I gave away the Graham Thomas because it wasn't doing much. Now I could move Thomas Affleck there but don't think it will bloom enough and is not filled out very well where it is now, odd shape. I'm afraid to move Hettie there because I have no idea if she will tolerate shade but needs moving. So my present two choices might be Ghislaine or one called Daybreak which is more yellow but same type of rose. The main problem is with Jap beetles, both would be a bad, and I am saving myself a lot of grief by cutting all the buds off. Could I do that with Ghislaine and/or Daybreak (still lean toward the latter because it is yellow)? I think they both repeat. Or one of the Austins for my zone that is supposed to tolerate shade. I like the clusters on these others though, don't have any quite like that. Ballerina might do well but it's not what I want for there. If Polish Spirit will bloom this well for no more sun than it gets, what might that mean for a rose? I have to get something in there plus the soil is somewhat gravelly but otherwise ok especially if I work some more compost in. I'll probably have to wait until spring to order now which may be just as well. I don't mean to hijack a thread, but while I was out there, I grabbed a shot of my Stargazers. One thing about this forum that is so discouraging is that others get things working together better and generally have bigger yards and much nicer roses. I've gotten these white alyssum self seeding and making progress transplanting so they'll line the whole sidewalk, really like the effect. It makes me feel better about other things that aren't going as I had hoped at all. That ugly dog thing is my hose guide, should replace that before I trip over it, plus it's an eyesore. That ugly fence post I pounded in when my coreopsis fell over, need to get that out of there and those thinned out, didn't know they spread like they do. Also self seed.

I have a brug that changes colors as the flower ages, not sure of the name, and I have a variegated brug with white flowers, and just bought the double brug from Logee's greenhouse. I'm looking for large flowered and scented brugs, also need care info for insects for brugs. And how to keep my cats from using the trunks as scratch posts, besides declawing, lol.

Thank you charlieinnj for the compliments on the rooms! The drapes are some I bought from a cyber decorating buddy on a decorating board..she bought them off Ebay & were the wrong shade of red for her rug so sold them to me for the same price she paid. I scrunched the heading & hung on short rods with rings & thank you so much for thinking they are custom!! I think they are the same drapes Tuesday Morning & Bed, Bath, & beyond have so they are store bought. Hope this helps.......Bonnie