Welcome to Garden Web! I thought you might like to know that there is no way to email you the way you have your preferences set. I suggest you go to the bottom of any page here and click on 'Member Pages'. then Edit Preferences. Then using the drop down box, set it to show your email addy to Members only. then check the box to allow others to email you via the forms here at GW. That will place a link on your member page so folks can reach you. You might also want to (while you are there) fill in your gardening zone, and your state abbreviation. The state abbreviation goes in the same box as the zone. Happy Gardening and trading. Also member retsec cannot be reached, so you two it seems are at a standstill until at least one of you set your prferences so you can be reached. Sue

I love America in the spring, and it's definitely "Coral." My problem with it is that I can't seem to keep it from losing most of its lower leaves by mid-summer. Might be the climate here, but I've heard others repeat the complaint. Great clove fragrance, though! I want to second Carla's recommendation of Brigadoon. What a terrific eye-catching rose! Really a blend, not a solid coral color, but if you're looking for overall coral "effect" I think it qualifies. Nobody's mentioned Artistry, that I noticed, anyway. An ARRS winner in the late 1990s, definitely coral orange, and easy to grow. Not much fragrance, but hey! it makes up for it by practically propagating itself. Mine actually sent up new sprouts from spreading roots (it was an own-root plant). Just so-so bloom form, though.

I apologize ahead of time if this one was already stated, but how about Achillea millefolium 'Apricot Delight'? Mine blooms apricot/coral. If I'm not mistaken, it can also form dark pink or light pink flowers provided a sunnier location. Not the best photo, but just to give you an idea: http://inlinethumb54.webshots.com/48629/2750746900101542237S600x600Q85.jpg

Thanks. I was the one asking about the Jewels. I thought they were supposed to be smaller series but you never know with Optimara. If my plants get to the stage I can photograph them, I will try asking Optimara about any iffy ones. Supposedly Margit isn't in production, but I guess they show up. I got one thinking it might be Kentucky but I don't believe it is. Now it's one of those other ones....??? Karin, Anthoflores does (or at least did) have some nice varieties. I just haven't seen them here for a long time. I liked A. Rose quite a bit and someone thought my little white one might have been Little Wynn. I lost it and miss it. It was from Canada, like my favorite liitle blue and white one. I still have a couple of leaves set, but I don't think I'll keep the plain purple one. the other was a blue that looked nice at the store (I got them before I realized they were Anthoflores but the blue had looked nice.) They had a lot of a peachy/white one. This one is the white one edged with red that is on their website in the planter. (My County Market Cerise) Diana