I have all three of those (Sunset Celebration, Tahitian Sunset and Valencia). Valencia is my fav of the three, but it is slow to establish, as has been said. But once established, it has enormous very fragrant blooms of a really unique gold-peach color. It's also slow to repeat, but oh so worth the wait. Sunset Celebration is kinda blah, normal, as roses go. Nothing too exciting about it. Nice flower for cutting and it holds indoors. But not too much in the scent department. I tried to replace it once with a rose called Scent-sation, which is the same color but supposedly fragrant. NOT! Don't go there. Scent-sation is a disease magnet with much smaller flowers than Sunset Celebration and also, no fragrance in it that I can detect. Why someone had the nerve to call it "Scent-sation" is beyond me. Tahitian Sunset is also okay, but the form of the flower is a little loosey goosey for my taste (and actually I think they blow faster than Sunstruck flowers). Sunset Celebration has more hybrid tea-ish form, while Tahitian Sunset acts more like a floribunda. Tahitian Sunset is also a quick repeater, but I don't consider it a cutting rose for bouquets. It's more of a garden color splash, mostly orange. I haven't had terrible disease issues with any of the three, but I do spray reasonably regularly. Kathy

According to NOAA, we only got .02" of rain overnight, but lots of strong winds, thunder, and lightening. It's looking like the end of the road for this year's garden. Predicted low of 33 over the weekend. The melons are pretty much gone now, and I gave up on the cucumbers a while ago, they're now the size of watermelons, and I don't have a clue what to do with them, other than throw them away. I've been gradually harvesting winter squash and pumpkins this week, and picked the last of the zucchini, but there are still quite a few peppers, and tomatillos, and tons of green tomatoes out there. Looks like tomorrow will be busy! Sometime between taking kids to and from school, doing the grocery shopping, and going to my son's soccer game, everything worth salvaging will have to get picked. Seems only natural for gardeners to lament about the weather, unless they are living in paradise ... Bonnie

Thanks Everyone! Konrad, on the photo above, I had the camera set on auto, but I did zoom in to get a closer shot of the sun itself. I am not sure if I have a red setting on my camera but I will have to check it and see. Thanks again. Kt

Thank you, Patty - this is for sure Sunrise Sunset and the serrated leaf edges are quite normal. I don't think it is likely Rose Rosette Disease, but thanks for the warning. Sorry, Michael - thanks for trying to help but you're right that it's not the greatest of photos (used my less than top of the line phone because it was handy.) While out of the 40 some roses I grow there is one rose (Dainty Bess) quite a distance away that has a touch of PM, but there has been none in this end of the garden and certainly none on SS. The curling could be heat and lack of water as I have very sandy soil and hadn't been able to water the garden this week. The spots on one leaf did have definite outlined circles within the spots but with no holes in them (does that make sense?) which made me think of anthracnose - just early symptom? It's the flaming scarlet red end leaf that caught my eye or I might not have seen the spotted leaves at all. I will keep on the lookout for more of these and post better photos if I find any more bright red or spotty leaves.