Thanks you so much Bgrose, Carol, and Jim! Carol, Folklore is always supposed to be a bicolor but the camera fails to capture it because I don't take it under the optimum lighting. It is a brilliant candy-tangerine orange on one side and a lemon butter cream on the other side. It looks nothing like Disneyland. Disneyland is very floribunda-like but Folklore does consistently "spiral" and is a classic HT. Bgrose, yes, Lincoln is my favorite rose! but the next one in line will almost 98% be Ferdinand Pichard. Both roses have the most AMAZING FRAGRANCE!!! Great news people, Crescendo's color is deepening, and may revert to Gemini coral. I am so excited about this... But if I post new pics that would be breaking my promise about saving everything for the next Lumpy batter batch, haha! Which is another reason why I stopped myself from posting my photos of my Scottish heath and heather. I absolutely love those new plants but we will see if they can flourish in my soil which is very ill-suited for heather/heath...They need sandy and acidic and not clay.alkaline soil so I'm trying to feed them tea leaves for the acid... lol, Jim, I am having a ROTTEN DAY TODAY, lol, today of all days, and yes! I did try to clean out that mailbox, lol! Hope you got my email about how horrid of a day I'm having with Kansas IRS. They are refusing to send back the money they made a mistake on back in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Their error too! Missouri got it straight, but Kansas didn't!!! So frustrated!!!!

Lol, I can already feel the addiction coming! The sad thing is, I won't be at this house for no longer than 3 years max because I just can't handle winters anymore so I'm trying to fill in areas with flowers, bushes, trees etc to disguise the awful chain link fence so when possible buyers come to see the house it will be the most flowered colorful house on the street! I am a novice at best but I'm trying lol..this is the corner I planted this weekend for under $60! Mulch included. My fence is so old and rusty plus I have awful picture windows where the entire neighborhood can see right in! So trying to plant certain things in areas to possibly double as a screen for my window lol Please don't laugh at my attemp at landscaping lol I'm trying to do on a budget ;)

Most of the Detroit area is now zone 6, last two winters excluded. If you give the canes some protection they might make through and then you would be able to expect it to climb. Otherwise it's going to grow like a big shrub instead of climbing. I just got America this spring too and I'll be just as interested as you in how it fairs this winter. I'm in SCS just north of the D.

I'd cut back on the feeding. Once a month should be enough. Particularly when it's very hot. You should NEVER spray anything except plain water on the leaves if the temps are over 80 degrees. That's how you can get a bad case of spray burn on the leaves.