redbirds, photos are always welcome :-), I am glad you took the time to post them! Your roses all look so beautiful! The pictures making the impression on me, that you have given your roses plenty of space to grow instead of cramming them in too close together, which I really like. From the roses that you have posted Maggie is my favorite! By the way, I really love the front of your house. You have chosen a very nice paint color. Please, keep more pics coming in the future! Christina Here is a link that might be useful: Organic Garden Dreams

Debra, it is a bit hard to say how well it could do. I originally had it planted by a shrub that quickly overshadowed it. It did OK, the blooms looked good but below average bud count. I left it there a couple of years & moved it last fall. It looks MUCH better this year & has lots of buds. Seems to be a bigger clump too. It is listed as a mid late, I don't have many actual "late" daylilies, but this is blooming with those. It is listed as a rebloomer, & I know it did rebloom for me last year when it was in the shade. Hoping for good things from it now. Really, I don't think the photos do it justice! I like Neon Rainbow too, Mantis, but it is not one I would really recommend based on how it is here. I got this one 4 or 5 years ago as a single fan. It bloomed the following spring & developed another fan which disappeared in summer with the heat. Same thing following year. This year the 2nd fan appeared again, but it managed to bloom this spring, so hopefully it will hold on this time. It is holding one of the better spots in my garden too, where it gets additional water when it needs it, fertilizer, etc. Rita, Orange Bounty is not fancy or anything, but it is one of my late bloomers, although it is listed as mid season for some reason. It usually doesn't start blooming til early July. This year it had a couple of fans that bloomed in early June with my earliest ones though,bloomed shorter than usual though. I thought that might be all it was going to do, but come July the rest of the fans broke out in bloom. Thanks Linda, this is the 2nd year for Sings the Blues & it is looking much better than it did last year. I was so happy when that seedling first bloomed, & I still like it but would like to see it with more buds.

My Chico babies seem to be doing well with a rather moist growing medium. The weather here is quite hot and dry (this past Saturday was well over 100 degrees... my car was registering the temperature as 102 degrees at 6:30 PM!). I'll definitely need to bring the bulbs in and keep them relatively dry over winter though... otherwise they'll rot. After losing the mother bulb to red blotch, I treated some of the babies with bleach and heat (using a sous vide for consistent temps) and some with a high concentration of H2O2 and heat. They don't seem to have red blotch this year.

nancyjwb, here in Michigan we have short, hot, humid summers. It topped 90 several days last year, but I grow leeks every year. I put the starts in the garden the end of May and as I weed them, I pull the dirt up around the plants. They are very cold tolerant, so they are one of the last things I take out of the garden. I usually plant a 50 foot row and then slice and dehydrate them, plus can potato leek soup. They never bolt or go to seed and they are always at least an inch in diameter. They don't need any more or less care than anything else in the garden, so they get weeded and watered right along with everything else. My garden has grown to over an acre, so I don't "baby" anything very much, except heirloom tomatoes. Radishes are grown to mark the rows of slow growing plants like carrots, so I can see where the row is until the tiny plants get bigger. By the time the radishes are big enough to use, the row is well established. Annie