Your garden is spectacular! I love everything. OT: I see the Yuban coffee cans that you have the Irises planted in and that reminds me of home -in So. California. My Grannie drank Yuban. :) Your garden is so neat and tidy. I like the combo of the Pinkish-Red and Blue-Violet irises myself. Stunning! Wish I could plant my Agaves in the garden and see them grow to full size like yours. I have to keep mine in pots and take them in in the Fall here. But, I am glad to have them, just the same - a little bit of home to enjoy in my Oklahoma garden. :) Everything is picture perfect. Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden with us. ~Annie

When I lived in Ft. Worth, Beverly Sills would bloom off and on from April into June but never later. Is that repeat bloom or rebloom? I think something has to bloom after July 1 to be considered a rebloomer. If so, BS was a repeater. The definition may have changed. Whatever you call her bloom, BS was great when I grew her. Walter Moores

Hi Mary. I have caged over 140 roses, and use 3' wide 20 gauge galvanized chicken wire with 1" holes. I buy 150' rolls when I'm doing a lot, and 50' rolls when not that many. I cut off approx a 4 - 5' section per hole, dig the hole size I prefer (I've never measured them, but I' estimate about 1 3/4' wide and 2' deep). I'm then pretty goofy about how I set them, as I lay the 4' section over the top centered, and step into the center then stomp it down all around. Then I bend the wire that's sticking out along the sides, preferring to lay over a little flat on the sides if I have extra, but I don't worry about it if there isn't enough left. It's a very unscientific process, I eyeball everything and don't measure, but since I've been doing this I haven't lost a single rose to gophers.

Signet - The AHS registration committee changed the rules recently. I think it was last year. Just using a prefix in front of an existing daylily name is no longer allowed. Dick was on the committee that voted in the changes, and he said they did it to avoid confusion. Debra