test ok added photo just to see....

Midnightsmum, the text will self-correct form to match everything else when you push submit, regardless of what it looks like when you paste it in. You have no choice as to text font or color or size, just whether it is bold or italics via the buttons below the post box. Citytransplant, I don't know how you view it, but your photo is sideways for me. (I can click on it and it is still sideways.) Do you post directly from an iPad? I put photos into my computer and use iPhoto to get them turned right side up. I don't know if there is photo manipulation software for iPads.

Testing adenium under rain, try again Another picture

Thank you, Ingrid! I haven't grown HdB in awhile but decided to add her to my striped rose collection. She was always healthier for me than Variegata de Bolgna. As I recall she gave me remontancy, as Zephirine Drouhin does, but in our current climate, who knows? Time will tell. Maybe I'll just enjoy the foliage! :-) I also prefer DdB's flower to many modern stripes. I am taking a gamble on the striped Tea, Madame Driout. I've never grown her, but decided to give her whirl as one of my few roses in that class. I've only seen one bloom, but it was intriguing--darker pink than HdB and globular as it unfurled. Really quite pretty! I may attempt to post a photo (I shudder at the thought of trying) of DdB, MD and Clotilde Soupert in a vase. I hope Cecil is continuing to heal! Carol