In Dave's Garden's Plant Files, there are 198 common names with "Lady" and 866 cultivars. Here are a few: Common Names: Naked Lady (Lycoris squamigera) (Amaryllis belladona) Lady's Tears (Tradescantia virginiana) Our Lady's Lace (Gallium odoratum) Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) Lady Bells (Adenophora confusa) Our Lady's Tears (Convallaria majalis) Eleven O-clock Lady (Ornithogalum umbellatum) Lady Palm (Rhapis excelsa) Lady of the Night (Brunfelsia americana) Pink Lady (Cassia javanica) Cultivars: Lavandula 'Lady' Rosa 'Lady Banks' Heliconia psittacorum 'Lady Di' Salvia coccinea 'Lady in Red' Passiflora 'Lavender Lady' Passiflora 'Lady Margaret' Iris 'Lady Friend' Hydrangea macrophylla 'Lady in Red' Blechnum gibbum 'Silver Lady' Leucanthemum x superbum 'Snow Lady'

I am near you - about 3 hours from Galveston in east Texas. I love my Tess. I have her on a huge fan shaped trellis - she has very healthy foliage and lots of nice blooms. Two of my favorite Austins are Carding Mill and Abe Darby. Wollerton Old Hall, new for me last year, does get really big, don't find the blooms fragrant like Austin says, but they are pretty. Sophy's Rose is a really good one - healthy foliage, lots of big pretty deep pink blooms. Bishop's Castle is good. Lady of Shallot looks to be big. I have quite a few new ones that are healthy and growing - they will do better next year. Great big for me are James Galway and Scepter d'Isle - like them a lot. I have Lady Emma and Munstead Wood planted where they get full sun until 2pm - hope they like it there. I really like Ambridge Rose too. Love the blooms on Jude......mine is very small though. I am getting another Young Lycadis - my chickens were scratching in that bed and killed it. The color is a different, brighter looking pink that I really like. Englands Rose was new for me last year - it started off looking and blooming fantastically.....then it starting dawdling around. Am hoping it will get going again in the spring - it was really nice. I want to try Princess Alexandra of Kent - have heard good things about it. Do any of you all plan to try the new Austins? I want Boscobel, The Lark Ascending.......not sure about the others. caldonbeck, the photos are fabulous! Judith

For us right now, it's Yucca, Aloe, Freesia, Fairy duster, Lavender, Rosemary, Euphorbia, Sansevieria, Melocactus, Bougainvilla, Gardenia, and Emu Bush. Oh, the Ocotillo are starting to sending out their flowers and leaves too.

I agree, Malasian Monarch does hold its colore quite well, but spreads open so the throat really shows up. I received a single fan a couple of years ago, last year I planted it in a really poor spot so moved it in the fall. It has still multiplied pretty well. Others I received at the same time are still a single fan. I don't remember that it bloomed that long last year, but time will tell for me. Elizabeth, Jay is really an odd color to pinpoint. When the first bloom opened I thought it was red, then looked closer & there is a deep pink/purple color to it. Hard to describe. Tinkers describes it as a rose red with burgundy midribs, and I guess that does get it. The flower is a bit larger than I was expecting, & I like it much better than I had expected. I only traded for it because I have a family member named Jay, wasn't impressed that much by its picture I found on the web. Much nicer in person.