Lysimachia procumbens, Golden Globes, perhaps.

After almost 50 years of gardening in 4 different gardens (one for more than 25 years!!) I gave up trying to keep track of specific cultivars of anything :-) Far too many plants over the years and I came to the conclusion that it really didn't matter much in the overall scheme of things anyway. Some just stay in your mind because they offer a unique appearance compared to others of their type. But many fade into memory and even with hosting various garden tours over the years, I never found a strong need to keep every ID'd as to specific cultivar. Genus and species, yes, but with plants like hostas, heucheras, heathers, clematis, daylilies, iris, dahlias and some hydrangeas, there are just too darn many that look to too similar to be very fussy about a specific cultivar ID :-) If you feel the need to ID (and I do understand that compulsion), then photos of the plants in bloom would be the first way to narrow things down. But even that may not be ideal.........hydrangeas can present a very different appearance in different gardens and with different soils.

Thanks for posting this Paul. And thank you to Lars for the blog history of the Uncommon Rose and the trip through time to way back when. I did not know much of the history of yours and Lars venture into the rose nursery business, nor the tribulations that finished it. You told me about the loss of many of your surviving roses in the 2015 arctic outbreak, (Polar Vortex), but this was the first I have heard of the devastating flood that hit the Uncommon Rose in 2006. The story is both enlightening and tragic. I very much enjoyed the afternoon you spent with me last spring and now appreciate even more the rare roses that you sent south with me to California. Most of those roses were to be coming North right about now to be placed in the new Heritage Rose Garden where they can be appreciated, curated. propagated and perhaps a few at least redistributed. So, the roses will remain in John's Garden in California for another year, being well cared for and growing on. Alas, we Canadian folk too are sheltering in place and I and my volunteers have been locked out of the Summerland Ornamental Gardens since the end of March, until the pandemic is past. We potted up more than 100 rose plants last week that I ordered last fall and that are destined for the heritage garden. They are being held and cared for by a local retail nursery thank goodness. Fortunately, there is still one Government of Canada Employee allowed in the Ornamental Gardens to make certain that the irrigation is working, so the roses will be blooming for each other rather than for we humans. You sent a plant of Golden Century south with me, so I will have to ask John how it is coming along. I also remember you showing me the plant of Grenadier Cottage when I was at your place. I believe there were only one or two blooms open when I was there, but it certainly is a very beautiful rose that in my view deserves to be saved and cherished. If anything, both Lars' story and this pandemic teach us, is that nothing is certain and nothing is forever. But both these things also highlight the human need to treasure beauty and to try to cherish and protect it. Both the story and the pandemic only make me wish to finish our Canadian heritage rose garden project all the more. It is in such public Gardens that rare and heritage roses have by far the best chance of surviving. We will never be a Sangerhausen, but we will have some rare, beautiful and historically significant roses, including quite a number of yours in our collection when we are finished. Treasure Trail, I am propagating plants of this beauty from my Mother plant for John and for inclusion in the Summerland Ornamental Gardens collection. It roots very easily and loves the dry Okanagan summers.here. Stay safe and well. Cheers, Rick

arkansas girl, your point about how it is not profitable to produce really durable consumer items is on point. Back when Singer was filling homes with sewing machines they built some pretty good machines and they built them to last. But, that meant that people were buying fewer machines because they lasted so well. So, Singer started offering incentives to trade in old machines and buy a new one. But what they did was destroy the old machine rather than reselling them. They did not want a lot of older machines being used and handed down and resold because it cut into their market. Durable machines did not make for profit. And, back then, they could not just add a bunch of useless features to the machines as easily as can be done today in order to add percieved value.