The pro to Earth Song is that it has more frangrance than Country Dancer. Other than that....does anyone that has both think there is much difference? I would like a strongly fragrant rose for this spot if I can get it. Moulton did not impress me in its first full year. Not nearly as bushy as Blush Noisette...but again, its early. I also dont detect a fragrance but know from my BN that fragrance comes in time with some noisettes. Mine is planted very close to Penelope and the blooms are almost identical, especially from a distance. I am not in love with this rose....yet. We will see....

Indeed, bonide Sedge Ender. Suppression is all you can ever hope for on nutsedge, it never goes away. In dry years, I've seen 99% control, but as soon as we get a wet year like 2016, BOOM it's back in full effect. I use it at 4 oz per gallon on my Bermuda, I've never done 5.5. When I do my mother in laws yard & beds I use 3oz per gallon because she has St. Aug--It's never caused any damage to her lawn, but same effect on the Sedge. They have a dry version called weed beater complete that I was thoroughly unimpressed with. Same active ingredients as far as I could tell, but dry delivery did not produce the same result.

Sorry if I gave the impression I was sneering, but I was really just curious. Getting "say" out of "sette" seemed strange. All I could think of was that period in the 80s or 90s when it became popular to "frenchify" the store name Target to Tar-ZHAY. And with well known examples like Antoinette or Annette, it seemed odd that "say" would come up. As far as the pronunciation of Noisette goes, anything is possible, but I wonder if it has simply been anglicized or partially anglicized. There are a lot of French names where I live, including my own, Lavergne, which have been anglicized. Even though I know full well my last name should be pronounced Lah-vair-nyuh, I pronounce it Luh-vern as in Laverne and Shirley as does everyone else I know, including my French speaking family. The ONLY time I might hear someone say it the "right" way would be if a really old French speaker asked my name, and they repeated it back to me in French deliberately as if they were saying, "This is who you REALLY are." The same goes with a lot of the other names around here like Bertrand, Daigle. There are others, though, that are still mostly pronounced the French way: Hebert, Trahan, Savoie, Angelle. However, if you travel ninety miles or so north or west of this area, you hear them being anglicized to Hee-burt, Tray-han, Suh-voy, etc. And sometimes, of course, they will pronounce it differently whether or not they know if the other person is from a French speaking background or not. My great grandmother was a Latiolais. So to some people she was a Latch-oh-lay, to others lah-tee-oh-lay. Then there are cases like Begnaud where the first half is anglicized, but the second half is still pronounced "oh" rather than "awd" which I guess would be how someone with no French would go for. This reminds me of a day in French class. We were reading passages from Madame Bovary, and someone pronounced her name to rhyme with ovary. Oh boy, the look on Madame's face was just as if someone had drawn fingernails across a blackboard. She stopped them and said, in French of course, "Please, please! It's Boh-vah-REE, not Bovary," and she rhymed it with ovary and drawled it out in such a funny way that we were all laughing.

Thank you everyone! Beverly is a great rose, I love it! One thing that's been an irritation is, with all the rain we've had, it has made my blooms not look their best, especially the lighter colored ones. I've got gobs of buds on Souvenir de la Malmaison and so far everyone that has opened has not been attractive! Normal rainfall wouldn't do that, but fifteen inches in a month will! I know it will get better, and for the most part my roses are doing good so far, I'm thankful for that.