***Gee, without a photo, everyone is just guessing.*** Yeah, Cass, but really there's nothing to see but skinny naked canes. They're green except where the tips are brown with little bits of fried new growth. I doubt I could even take a well focused picture of them. I just didn't know why it would be happening over and over. Perhaps these Teas and Chinas are so tough they just don't know to lay down and rest a while until they recuperate. ***whenever I've seen fried baby leaves it's been due to a water uptake problem.*** Anita, this sounds logical. I assume transplant/root damage would be the cause of this? And as it recovers, this will improve? ***but since it is the same rose - and I don't think too many people got it - I thought that any input about it might be of some assistance.*** Funny you should say this, Laura. I had been drooling over MJP during the first Vintage sale because it is said to be a smaller Tea, but it wasn't on sale. When the second sale email came and she was on the cover of the sale catalog, I nearly fainted and couldn't get the Vintage site up fast enough! I just new rose lovers would see that bloom and buy out every single one before I could hit the "Submit" button. I sure hope she does well. Thank you all for all the input - very valuable stuff. I'll just pamper them for a while and trust that these tough little plants will pull through. I've got a spot now for Mutabilis so maybe he'll do better in the ground - unless I should wait for him to recover(?). The interesting thing about Mutabilis is that it came potted basically in pine bark fines and my watering all summer had washed out a good bit of it and left roots at the bottom of the pot exposed, but it still had leaves and even bloomed a bit. Then I put it in nice new soil and poof! He went into shock! Thanks again. Sherry

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As you know, K-Mart and Sears are the same corporation these days. Supposedly, K-Mart bought Sears, but Sears tries to play the boss. Its really hard to fathom the relationship of these two entities - both are struggling. My experience of late with Sears is that they no longer have knowledgeable sales-people. For example, I tried to cancel a Sears credit card. The salesman called an 800 number and handed the phone to me (after the first part of a recording had played. What the heck - I'd missed the first part of the message and there was no repeat button. I gave up. I think they have dismissed all the regulars and have hired a bunch of untrained nobodies. I suppose the reason they hide is that they are totally unprepared to interface with the customer. Their management and training are missing.

I have had the same trouble this year, ALL of my eggplants, 20 and another dozen peppers, mowed off right at the stem. I did have a woodchuck a few years ago, but got rid of him, and saw the obvious den/hole along the fenceline. I am guessing it is chipmonks this year. We have lots of bunnies but there was a fence around it that should keep them out, chippies could have crawled over/under it. I will look for groundhog holes later as well. I replanted 18 eggplants and 25 peppers, and the next day they were gone too!!!! I have 12 more eggplants, this is the last replanting. They are going in a different area and keeping my fingers crossed. I doubt it was kids, they may mess with a few but not take the time for the entire garden, it was a 4 legged critter. Oh I also had no footprints and we are getting tons of rain, which makes me think it was a very light animal, hence chipmonk.