Anybody else want to run out and rent "Best In Show" with Fred Willard & Eugene Levy???? I was also going to add "what Jaxondel said"; however, I had to look up "cotton buds" because I was not erudite enough to know they are "cotton swabs" (I thought we were talking about cotton balls). The bright side of this coin is firstly, that I can now share some wonderful information on the history of the cotton 'swab' (if I may, Suzy?) or what we call the Q-tip (not to be confused with the rapper): Cotton swab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_bud I also feel duty bound to mention that the "Q-tip" moniker is now owned by the British conglomerate Unilever who bought Cheesborough-Ponds, so perhaps in a few years you may have to transition, Suzy! And for those who've been titillated by this information, I have only scratched the surface on the history of the humble cotton swab (which I must admit I thought was interesting because I know I can safely do so in this company): Q-tips: History http://www.qtips.com/history.php Finally, in the interest of full confession, disclosure and, dare I say competition? I fully admit cotton swabs are one of my rare brand snob purchases, I prefer Johnson & Johnson swabs because the 'buds' are bigger ;-) G'night all...

Pic of typical roses with thrips. I still think yours might have some thrips, but they have something else eatting them up and the leaves. No one is commenting on the bites in the leaves. The thrips damage is cosmetic on the petals of the roses. The rose I have, Moonstone, that the leaves looked like yours had several pests, one was thips when it bloomed. It also had rose slugs and sawflies. Other than that I couldn't find any other pest on it to account for the leaves looking like this. If your roses are young and this Bayer you got is the soil drench I'd look up the thread Redsox created and see her pics of how her young roses burned using it. I believe it killed the pests but it burned the roses. I think the foliar app is a safer app than the soil on young roses. If you do use it, make sure you water deeply first. One other thing that maybe totally unrelated and probably is, how early in the am do you water? The water needs to be evaporated off the roses by the time the sun is hot enough to burn the roses or the blooms can sunburn. I noticed the water on the leaves and you asked that.

Hmm, I miss a day or two, I miss a LOT here, ladies! I've been running a lot, distracted, and just plain scatterbrained. Must be spring fever (at least, I'd rather blame that than a mid-life crisis, lol!). I have most of Debbya's box ready to go - I just want to do one more thing, then send it on its way. It's been fun learning about your names and their history. My first name has NOTHING to do with my family heritage - my parents just liked it. My middle name, Marie, is for my mother, Mary. My daughter's first name is Juliana, for the medieval Christian mystic Juliana of Norwich. Her middle name is Pearl, for my grandmother, who died years ago. Our son's name is Ian (Scottish for John - his grandfather, great uncle, and uncle-in-law are all John/Jon, and his father is Sean, the Irish form of John). His middle name is Joseph, for one of my favorite men in the Bible. Oh, how we debated about Ian's name! He's our first, and my mother was pestering us mightily about what names we were considering. So, we had an ugly name contest, and kept telling her all sorts of outrageous choices. Keep in mind, our last name is RUDD. So, Dudley Bud Rudd, Elmer Rudd, Evan Rudd (think Evinrude motors), Vladimir Rudd (just because), etc. etc. AND, we couldn't use any names that started with C or K, because that would make his abbreviated name C. Rudd. CRUD. That cancelled out all sorts of names we happened to like, for both kids, lol! My favorite outdoors tool is definitely bypass pruning shears. Indoors, I have to say that I really MISS my dustbuster. It recently croaked after years of faithful service, and NOW I realize just how much I used it to clean up after the kids, birds, and cats. LOLOL about the moon story! Our son stayed up late to watch part of the eclipse, and really thought it was cool. Laurel

Hi Misty I live a couple of hours from you and so have a similar climate ie stinking hot much of the year.Anyway I don't know for certain to be honest weather our hot sun aids the blackening of the outer petals on Camp David but if I could bet on it I would.Every Camp David I've seen up here looks the same.I think it's nice all the same.I think it's just supposed to be a red/black rose.Apart from that it seems to perform very well up here.Hope that's of some help. Thrip