Boncrow - Very nice. The Don Juan in full bloom is so lovely! They are all very pretty.

Leslie my ROSs aren't blooming yet but they all have lots of buds. I really didn't expect to see buds a week or 2 ago as they usually don't flower until last week of July, usually first week of August. My spring flowering plants were late this year but my summer flowering ones seem to be early. Strange year.

very nice florence. let's me know it's getting close to the time for our visit :) i have two - not a clue their names, they've been here forever. i happened to catch oprah's show late one night last week where she showed her rose garden. i forget how many hundreds she had, but she didn't plant one...she hired someone to design the garden and plant it. i think if i had as much money as she does, i would spend all my time planting...not having someone else do it. maryanne

Hi Sharon, I don't spray for fugal diseases. CPM is quite resistant, and keep most of its leaves during the growing seasons. Slightly worse off than Heritage, but not by much. You will enjoy your CPM! Hope that your Heritage get well soon. It is really vigorous here, and I imagine it would be a hard rose to kill. It improves with ages and this year's bloom is by far the largest in the four years that it is in my garden. Jasimin -- may be I will get The Mermaid just to control Laguna a bit. That corner of the garden has been a non-shall-pass area for a while. I have at the other corner of the fence Awakening and Cinderella Fairy Tale fighting it out. hahaha... With Mermaid, it will be a fortress.....