'Ghislaine de Feligonde'--This is a fresh, sweet Hybrid Musk type of rose that for some reason has never been able to engage my attention, even though I love Hybrid Musks. Perhaps it was because I was given a rooted cutting by a friend: 'Ghislaine' was too easy to acquire and grow. It enjoys excellent ratings and is doing fine in its current state of benign neglect. One day it may capture my attention and with it, my love, but so far 'Ghislaine' and I haven't gotten around to developing a relationship. I've seen it looking lovely in a friend's garden. 'General Schablikine' is a joy: a Tea-China rose that is both elegant and informal, always beautiful to look at; healthy, robust and rewarding. 'Safrano' is another Tea beauty, an early hybrid of this class. The open flowers are the color of mixed peach and strawberry ice cream, same colors in the bud but deeper; young foliage is red (same as with 'General Schablikine). Tea fragrance. 'Safrano' can get mildew in summer, but doesn't take any particular harm from it. Wonderful rose. 'Francesca' is one of the Pemberton Hybrid Musks, and a fine, fine rose. It makes a wide, spreading, arching shrub in my garden and might possibly be usable as a climber. 'Francesca' has a lot of Tea character in the color and form of her blooms and in her fragrance, and also in her tendency to keep on growing and blooming in spite of the warnings of shorter and cooler fall days, so that she can get cut short by frost. 'Clementina Carbonieri' is a marvel: very healthy, and one of the strongest-colored Teas, almost fluorescent in favorable conditions. 'Clementina' roots easily and grows well on her own roots, but in my garden is a VERY slow starter. As the years pass she becomes plenty big,though, and is a tough frugal rose. Tea scented, very healthy, very beautiful. I hear the blooms fry in hot sun. If your 'Etoile de Lyon' is my '(Bermuda's) Anna Olivier', then I can tell you it's another wonderful Tea. Again, very healthy, very frugal, VERY elegant. Big, double, pale buttery yellow blooms, particularly good in my garden in the fall when they're less likely to get chewed up by beetles. Less twiggy than the other Teas I've reviewed here, and like them gets big with time. Highly recommended (that is, it's a rose to die for). If you find that the Teas do well for you and you like them, I suggest that you consider 'Sanguinea' (which may go under a different name in the U.S.) and, possibly my favorite of all Tea roses, 'Mme. Antoine Mari'. But there are too many beautiful Teas to name them all. I hope this helps. Melissa P.S. I ought to add a disclaimer, that I've discussed these roses as they grow in my own garden, without consideration of your probably different conditions.

Hi, Ingrid - I've been looking at the cemetery roses, and my own, with thoughts of what I could recommend to you as a central specimen plant. Susan Louise comes to mind. It can grow a bit awkwardly, tall and angular. Ours in the cemetery is a bit lopsided, but beautiful nonetheless. It's a repeat blooming shrub form of Belle Portugaise, with huge, barely-double flowers that nod downward. The flowers end up looking like crumpled hankies thrown all over the bush, a trait that I find endearing. It really shows its R. gigantea ancestry, but its repeat bloom, exquisitely pointed buds, and gorgeous flowers all make it a nice garden plant. I assume it would do well in your heat, since it's fine for us. I was a little surprised to hear about your Mons. Tillier, since ours does so well, but in the cemetery there is some afternoon shade. That probably makes the difference. Mrs. B. R. Cant does well for us, but it is indeed a wider-than-tall rose. Duchesse de Brabant is a classic survivor throughout the foothills, and blooms throughout the summer (yes, the edges do crisp a bit). I keep wondering about Dainty Bess as a possibility, which is not really an antique rose, but can't be beat for its red stamens and beautiful single flowers. Spray Cecile Brunner would look great as a free-standing tall shrub - it repeats very, very well. Our New Orleans Cemetery Rose is proving to be quite large and simply gorgeous, with lilac-pink flowers and silvery reverse. The blooms aren't huge, but the flower clusters are. It may be Pierre de St. Cyr. We hope to have quite a bit of it propagated for next year's open garden. Anita

This one always turns out good: STRAWBERRY JELL-O POUND CAKE 1 box strawberry cake mix 1 pkg. strawberry Jell-O 3/4 cup vegetable oil 4 eggs 1 pkg. vanilla instant pudding mix Empty cake mix into bowl. Put Jell-O in a measuring cup and fill to 1 cup with boiling water. Add 3/4 cup of liquid to cake mix. Reserve 1/4 cup for glaze. Add remaining ingredients to cake mix. Beat on low speed until mixture is blended then beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Bake in tube pan for 1 hour at 325 degrees. Glaze: 1/4 cup Jell-O (from above) 1 cup confectionersâ sugar Add the 1/4 cup of Jell-O to 1 cup confectionersâ sugar. Mix well and spoon on warm cake.

Can you post pics of the local trellis? What I want to figure out is can you switch between the two styles. If so I would do both methods with extra space between the lines of the regular style. If you need to do something others won't you might want to try methods others won't. Maybe you will have better luck.