Chocolate Brug, you must be in brug heaven and my gosh look at that Canna Beds!! WOW My gosh your Wyoming Canna you send me bloomed. NO leaves but it bloomed lol. What a GORGEOUS ORANGE bloom!! Did you have hick up for a few days? Cause for all those days it bloomed, I thought about you. Saying goes....when you have hick up...someone is thinking about you ;) Lucy

Oh Brenda that is gorgeous! Darker pink..very pretty. Love the way the tendrils laying themselves to the side. LONG bloom. I betcha you are still thinking you are in heaven!! Lucy

Rosetom, I understand your hesitation about accepting "petal base-tip-color" as being a valid (reliable) ID-clue. So, please test my theory yourself, using "Scientific Methodology" for the test. In science, for a theory to be accepted as Valid, the theory must produce the same result "consistently" - and also be "replicatable" (produce the same result when other researchers test it). Select four large petals from a healthy, fresh (young newly-opened) red-rose bloom. But not from the very-outermost ring of petals, nor from the small central petals). At their base is a small point, which I call the "attachment-tip." It will be the same color on each of the four petals taken from that bloom. Decide whether that tip-color is closest to one of the following colors: White "Nearly-white" (a quite pale yellowish-greenish color) Butter-yellow Deep-yellow (some are an "electric" deep-yellow). Take note of the "comparative size" of the non-red area at the petals' base. (I've noticed that although the base-tip-color of Mr. Lincoln and Chrysler Imperial is the same (electric deep-yellow), the deep-yellow area of Mr. Lincoln's petals is consistently about twice as large as Chrysler Imperial's deep-yellow area.) Next, do the same tip-examination procedure for (say) three other varieties of red roses in your garden. The result I got was: (1) The attachment-tip / base-area color was the same for each of the four petals from a particular varieity's bloom. (2) The attachment-tip / base-area color of some red-rose varieties is distinctly different from that of other red varieites I have two bushes of Mr. Lincoln. I checked the tip-color of large FRESH petals taken from each of the two bushes. The tip-color was the same (specifically, electric deep-yellow) for both bushes. I also have three bushes of Dr. Huey - and the tip-color on large FRESH petals from each of them was the same (specifically, white). This data led me to third conclusion: (3) Petal-tip color seems to be a "genetically-set" characteristic. Important Note: The petals' tip-color tends to fade lighter as the bloom ages - therefore, for the tip-color test to be valid, check ONLY some large FRESH petals from a newly-opened bloom. I am now quite certain that if someone handed me a large fresh petal from each of four red-rose varieties WHOSE TIP-COLOR I AM FAMILIAR WITH ...I can correctly name the rose each petal came from. Please do not take what I've said here as being bragging - take it as "interesting amateur scientific research." And please check my Petal-Tip-Color Theory for yourself, on various red roses from your garden. Let me know the results you get. (As I noted elsewhere, the theory also seems to work well on orange, pink, and lavender roses - but white blooms and yellow blooms can be difficult, because those colors are also tip-colors.) Regards, JohnReb

Thank you Carol and Jasmine. Yes, they look thirsty in the pic. I watered them after I took the pic. When I visited Regan nursery today I noticed most of the roses look a bit dry too. I think CA water limit has that effect on nurseries. I'm glad you have your Black Magic, Jasmine. Happy late birthday :)