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msrose, my best baby pinks are Jolyene Nichole and Rose Emily, and I notice both of them are officially listed as rose, so what do I know? I'm not big on pink, actually preferring them on the peach side. That said, the following are pink pinks that do well for me: Chorus Line Seminole Wind Helen Shooter Soft Summer Night Rosalee Bright and Free Pretty in Pink I absolutely love good old Judith, but she might be too peachy for you. Another pink-ish great performer is Mountain Almond. If I were you (assuming you're not completely out of room), I'd go ahead and order Hush Little Baby from Wild and see how it does for you. What the heck.

I didn't keep bud counts on all of mine but here are some clump shots of my most prolific bloomers. This first one may be a mislabeled seedling. One of the local hybridizers used to line out his seedlings in the same plot as my display garden. He did have an introduction out of 'Open Hearth' and I half suspect this may be a sibling. It was a real wowser though. I did count the buds on 'Desperado Love'. One scape had 32 buds, the rest counted in the high 20s. This is only a two year old plant in my garden. It blooms ML here and is still putting on a show. This one was sold to me as 'Mariachi' but I've learned it is actually 'Mariachi1' as the first "Mariachi" was a diploid that was never released. 'Mariachi1' is a tet. Take a look at this 2yr plant's branching & bloom. 'Mary Todd' is a real bloomer here too. Check out the scape on 'Mexican Maiden' 'Nile Crane' was absolutely gorgeous. Always a favorite performer here, 'Wild Horses' had a long bloom season And finally, my seedling 2007-048-003 (Jennifer Trimmer x Maltese Falcon) had what I would call 4-way branching (though when I asked the garden judges at regional to explain how they count branches they would have called this at least 6-way) and a budcount of 25 in its maiden bloom.

sunnfarm3 you are right about the cuttings. In fact I take all my cuttings and leave them exposed to the air on my spare room floor for 5 days before I plant them, with rooting hormone right into the soil. Letting them callus over greatly reduces the incidence of blackleg. They look like they are dying for about a week and then slowly start to grow. I like the idea of ice packs to keep them cool, but I'd be careful that the ice packs don't touch the plants. A layer of newspaper between should work