Thank you for all the wonderful comments :) Each one, when it arrived in my email, made me smile again! I still have so much that I want to do, but it does feel nice to have some areas that are staring to come together! As very few people around me have gardens with more than evergreen shrubs, it is nice to hear such lovely comments every once in a while! I do have a lot of pink :) Funny, because my favorite colour is actually purple! My favorite photo is also the second one, with the lighter pink lupines and darker pink peonies. Lupine was moved there last year so this is the first year it has bloomed like that, and while I thought it would be pretty, I never imagined how nicely they would fit together! thyme2dig - Supreme Sultan really is a beauty isn't he? Such large blooms, and so many on each stalk that it weighs them down and I need to prop them up between other flowers to keep them upright!!! And luscious colour, so rich. One of my favorite Irises!

Well I happened upon this website & thread because I had a conversation with a fellow gardener today about her lilies and now many of my lilies "reverting", and the most common colour they seem to become is orange. I have HUGE clumps of lilies, and loads are orange and I don't remember planting that many orange ones, so I kinda wondered if some didn't revert from something else, but now I KNOW they have, because I had one huge clump that were called Kaveri I had bought a few years ago. Kaveri is yellow with red in the centre of each petal. They were so huge & thick last year that I thought I would probably have to divide them this year.... and I was going to dig out some of the other clumps that are orange to plant the Kaveri lilies. Well, my Kaveri lilies all started opening yesterday ... and they are ALL orange. There is no way that I made a mistake or that little bulblets from other lilies could have gotten in there, they were a separate & distinct clump. I am honestly so upset I can hardly see straight. I have another few clumps of lilies that are pink with freckles -- which I now know were LA or OT lilies in various colours, but the blooms are all pink and MUCH smaller than they used to be, so they have also "reverted". My friend had ivory coloured white double-petalled lilies, and they are all now single orange ones (and she doesn't like orange, so she knows she never bought them,a nd her neighbourhood is new, there were no other gardens there before) Do reverted lilies ever come back to their proper state? Does anyoe know the cause? I'm wondering if maybe the parent they use to hybridize is a drought-tolerant Asiatic, because it's been incredibly dry here, and maybe it figures it needs to revert to save itself? I don't know, but I am so upset. I'm hoping that the other Kaveri clumps don't revert! This shows what Kaveri is supposed to look like https://www.longfield-gardens.com/plantname/Lily-Kaveri

Goodmorning Everybody ! :) I heard from my swappers last night...:))) Mariann I have a couple of surprizes for you...We love putting surprizes in our boxes Regina started it.. Chell you are so creative and your writing is so much fun to read... I bet the boys loved playing pirate.. I can see their smiling faces now...What a great idea to make a hideout.. They will always remeber their hideout mom made for them... Norma I havent traded with you but I am sure you went way above in sending her nice cuttings..I seen pics of what you send...They are awesome boxes..:)) Please dont be sad..:)) Regina howdy :) I am so sorry about Mark having to have surgery and the heart condition would just send me into heaven.. Wow I am so glad to read it all went well...Shooo My heart sank for a minute...He will be all healed for college this fall..:)) You empty nester dont go through what I went through...Stay busy and call them alot... I miss my kids so much it hurts sometimes... Dogs are okay but they cant replace our true babies...I love reading about chell and her boys... It makes me smile so much... Frances lol You poor gardener..ahhah You need a break from mother nature..Really..:)) Oh big snakes yucky... I would be screaming... I love chippies...They are so cute...Havent had many around with a cat now...Kiki has brought home two gardener snakes...He was very proud of himself... Yesterday I was getting ready to go out and play in the dirt...The crows or blackbirds were screaming...It just like a scene in the movie the "birds"... It creeped me out really bad...I couldnt see what they were yelling at.. I watched tv...Than got bored and went coleus shopping..lol The master gardener sale for the next county over is tommorow... I cant wait to see what they are going to be offering..I have never been to this one...Oh I almost forgot..I heard from the master gardener I met...Looks like we are building another gh..lol She wants to do it closer to fall since everyone is busy with their gardens...I am glad we could help her..They are a pain to build.. well I gabbed enough lol must be the strong coffee and I got a lot of sleep...:)) Have a good day everybody..Barb

They have one small bush of CS at Descano Gardens that was just covered in blooms in the Spring! I haven’t seen any blooms on it all summer, but I don’t think they fertilize their roses so that could be why. I will check next time I am there to see if it has a fall flush starting. I remember it having a sweet fragrance, but I have a hard time smelling roses unless they are picked and brought inside. If I didn’t have Annie Laurie McDowell on its way in the first week of November from Steve at Wisconsin Roses, I would get Climbing CS. I am super excited about ALM!!! Even though it’s on Multiflora, which doesn’t do as well here. Next summer/fall I will try to root it, in case the Multiflora struggles over the long term. But I am going to be making a superb planting hole for it.