Karate626: Thank you for helping and for the info.. Christopher: They said those Orchids were going on sale weeks ago..I'll bet they are holding out for Christmas.. You know, what's the point? They should sell them at discounted prices just as soon as they loose all the flowers..No one buys them all year anyway..I think I will chat with the owner since I know him and he is a great guy. Thanks for your input too.. Get ready for the snow. It will be a true test of my pop up..yes, it's still up..lol Mrlike2u: Yes, they do have a way with putting up with lot's of abuse..The leaves look pitiful, but I am just glad it even still flowers..I am going to make this plant a priority into a much better mix and care come spring. Thanks Pug..Thank you much! All your help and incentives have paid off and benefited me...Yours are to die for though, especially that yellow one..:-) Laura: How are you? How's all your plants doing? You are right. Our first snow storm coming Sunday night and I am not thrilled since I gave up snow boarding..Personally, I can handle the frigid temps a lot better when I can still see the ground, although the blanket of snow does act as an insulator to many of my plants...lol Thank you for your nice comments..It is very much appreciated..The color is quite different, and every year the color suprises me.. Have a great day everyone. Mike

Perhaps Graham Thomas, hybridized by David Austin. Many "Austins" (as roses hybridized by Mr. Austin are called) shatter, or lose petals, quickly after opening. If you want to cut them to bring inside, cut while they buds are still tight, you might get it to last a day or two. Here is a link that might be useful: Graham Thomas info at Helpmefind.com

When I was a kid I grew up on my Grandfathers dairy farm in N.E.Ohio and although we did have tractors we did most of our farm work the old way with horse drawn equipment in the same way the Amish do today. With 45 cows, 13 draft horses, sheep, hogs, chickens and a number of young heifers coming up we had to grow over 30 acres of hard yellow dent corn to produce feed for the animals. In the spring when we were planting the corn Grandmother used to give us two or three large 3# coffee cans of squash and pumpkin seeds and as we filled the seed hoppers on the corn planter we would toss in a handful of Grandmas seeds. In the fall we cut the corn with a single row corn binder that cut the corn and tied it in bundles, which were then dropped on the ground, and we later had to stand all those bundles up into corn shocks were it stood in the field to dry until we could haul it a load or two a day to the barn to be husked. When the men were cutting the corn with the binder us boys had to run a couple rows ahead of the binder and find the pumpkins & squash, pick them and set them out in the cut part of the field so they wouldn't get run over by the binder then we had to hitch a team of horses to a box wagon and haul all the pumpkins and squash to the house and store them in the root cellar. In a typical year we would produce upwards of two tons of pumpkins and various varieties of squash, which were primarily Hubbards (which us boys affectionately called "HUBBUBS"), Acorn squash, Turbin Squash and Butternut squash and sometimes a few gourds which were used as decorations, cut into dippers or holes drilled in the sides and hung as bird houses. Needless to say, throughout the fall and winter squash was a mainstay of our diet in the same manner as potatoes and Grandmother knew dozens of different ways to cook them. For hubbards & butternut squash she primarily would cut them in half lengthwise, clean the seads out then steam or boil them, scoup the meat out of the shell, add butter and a touch of nutmeg and mash them and serve in the same manner as mashed potatoes (only no milk). If Grandmother was feeling exceptionally ambitious she would sometimes make a squash pie in the same manner as making a pumpkin pie and on rare occasions she would make an indian pudding from the squash. For the turbins and acorns she would cut them lengthwise, clean the seeds out, then place them face down on a cookie sheet with a bit of water and bake about 40 minutes in a moderate oven, then turn them right side up and put butter & honey in the cavity and bake another 15 to 20 minutes. But my abolute favorite way of fixing acorns came in late November right after we butchered hogs..Grandmother would cut acorns lengthwise, clean the seeds out, then stuff the cavity with pork sausage and bake for an hour. To this day that remains my favorite way to fix acorn squash.

Might be galls, if it's not a natural feature of the plant. What plant is it? You can do an image search and look at other photos to determine.