that's a very interesting subject. i have mostly tropicals indoors and some go out to ultra bright NE balcony outside. lots of variegation. i think indoor culture is quite different from outdoor and season to season and latitude - just all very complicated! what i found is that a lot of time recommendations for these plants are from southern growers ... for outdoors! (FL). bright shade in summer in fl = bright dappled sun on the window sill for me in NYC. seasonal light differs a lot too. so while i put my plants in some early sun, NE bright shade(no sun) outside in summer, in winter they stay in dappled sun west window or even full sun west. one example is crotons: early summer outside in 3-4 hrs of sun cooler temps is great! but then they really color up in october too - no direct sun, 60-65F. while hot temps over 80F and direct hot sun in july -aug totally bleach out the leaves. but indoors west partial 3-4 hr sun in winter does wonders for them. caladiums are similar to that. they green in too much shade and bleach out in too much hot sun. while take 4-5 hrs of direct eastern sun indoors in summer. i have many more: stromanthe triostar, alocasia african mask, etc - that are strictly indoors. they are supposed to be in bright shade only, but i keep them all in dappled , even direct early/late sun to maintain color/good growth indoors in winter and sheers filtered sun in summer.

Yes. Lots of roses look their best here in autumn. I went for a drive around the neighborhood the other day and all the hybrid teas look amazing. I am having serous mildew issues this year, but it only seems to be the potted ones that are affected. Devoniensis and all the in ground roses are clean. I did some reading and apparently overhead watering prevents mildew from forming. The roses in the soil get sprayed by the reticulation system, so it seems to be true. I've started hosing down the leaves when I hand water and even after only a few days the mildew isn't so bad. Devoniensis doesn't seem to get BS here either. It's very healthy.

I second that, pink roses make me swoon & yours are very swoon-worthy. Lovely, lovely. Jane

Oh, Carol. Sorry. I've been away from the gallery recently. I probably won't collect seeds from THAT hip; it's just an eglanteria seedling that I collected originally as seed! I have had OTHER hips that I've collected seeds from and have open sown them in hopes of something germinating. Seeds from Mutabilis, Midnight Blue, William Baffin, and Gertrude Jekyll are randomly together in an area of the garden in hopes of new sprouts come spring. Steven