My favorite reds are Black Magic and Ingrid Bergman. Black Magic lasts a little longer but Ingrid has a scent. I did get one perfect bloom off Taboo this year but it's been slow to get going and most of the blooms weren't very well formed. I used Moondance as a white cut rose this year. Even though it doesn't last as long as a real cut rose should it bloomed so often that I could afford to cut a new one every few days. And it smells really good too. My favorite cut rose this year is Marilyn Monroe which is more of a cream color. It lasts a long time and has a nice scent but you should be aware it has nasty thorns. I'm ordering a bunch more cut roses from Palatine. They have a really good selection and will state expected vase life. They're roses are really large and healthy too.

Hey Josh! Thanks a lot..I really appreciate it..For the life of me I can't remember what the weather was like back then..It sure looks like what you said.. I am glad I can finally say it is not because I am over watering....Am I wrong to think that the rot starts from the bottom up with overwatering? Jojo....I am so happy to hear that yours is doing ok..That is exactly what happened to mine.. It would of been nice not to loose the tops and have to cut them off so I could of had straight up one stemed plants, but I will take anything as long as they make it and they are healthy.. Happy growing! Mike

I have several Piedmont Azaleas that LOVE our south GA humid heat. They are in filtered sunlight with about an hour of full on sun and thrive! (its just baking hot here now) very fragrant blooms. One has white blooms and one white with pink. Also a butterfly bush that is about 2.5 feet wide and only 4 ft. tall. blueish purple. (more blue looking, soft, love this plant, the size is great! I have it staggered by a rose and it is beautiful. doesn't get out of bounds.) I have several clematis that I could cut from. I have rooted them easily! I also have Becky daisies that I traded for a couple of years ago and they have been blooming for almost 3 months! Blooms are very strong and about 4ft high. We have had a few very strong storms and nothing makes them lay down! They multiply and spread wonderfully! I could dig you some of those. I am happy to share. We bought a foreclosed home (not lived in for three years and had to just tear the yard apart! People here were so generous with their trades and got me off to a great start! (I should have dug up a lot of my things from my old house, but I was so darn tired of moving, I just didn't care..) I also live in a rural area and just don't have access to fab nurseries like others! I can cut you some butterfly weed. Roots easy and is a blooming machine!

Well, the main pot has been knocked over several times by storms, and on one of those occasions a very discriminating chipmunk came and bit off all of the suckers except for the biggest one. Grr. (Plant is now tied to a rigid post.) But even if that hadn't happened, the only advice I've found about rooting curry leaf from a sucker would have me cutting off that major root, on either side of the sucker. Illustrations don't show any root hairs on the major feeder root that would have to be cut. I don't see how this is any more likely to succeed than taking a cutting, and I cannot risk losing the whole plant by doing such drastic surgery in a relatively small pot. Update re cuttings I took in early summer: I planted them in new "Miracle Gro" potting soil, supplemented with perlite. They have all failed: rot. They have never been watered since first planting, and it's been 7 weeks now. That's how humid it has been here in Minnesota this summer. I have today taken a couple more cuttings. If you look at videos from India etc or read the "usual" advice, you'll see that they recommend taking cuttings that are a pencil-size in diameter. "Hah" say I. A pencil-size in diameter, that has to be only semi-hard, from a plant growing in a 15" pot?? That simply can't exist. My semi-hard cuttings are about 1/8" in diameter. And they're short. They look good to me: proportional. But we'll see. I have set up a Forsyth pot: terra cotta outer and inner pots. Medium is straight vermiculite, nothing else. Vermiculite was watered with soft water (from the lake I live next to). The same water went into the water supply pot. Cutting prep: Advice I've seen runs from stripping the bark/skin of the cutting for the lower 2" before dipping in rooting hormone, to no recommendation of stripping any skin at all. My compromise on these cuttings was to peel away about half to two thirds of the skin. I suspect the principle may be that the rooting hormone contacts living tissue on the cut edge of the skin? Because I doubt anything can really grow from heartwood. Stripping away all the skin seems like you're stripping away all chance at life. I followed with rooting hormone plus the usual procedures for setting cuttings in whatever medium. The Forsyth pot is outdoors in full shade, with no bag or covering, because humidity levels here are reasonable right now. Dew points in the 50's-60's. I'll be watching carefully and bag the pot if it looks like stuff is wilting. (I threw a few star jasmine cuttings in as well because why not.) My observation is that there is no authoritative advice about starting curry plants from cuttings, that either supposedly works everywhere, or can be adapted to Anywhere USA. No recommendations re details of medium, lighting, temperatures day/night, or humidity; nothing about how long it should take. If anyone can suggest ideals with regard to any of these parameters I'll be happy to hear. If you watch videos from India where this plant is nearly a "weed," it looks like it grows in powder-dry soil, and gets potted up in same. So I'm going with the nutrient-free, airy, but fairly moisture retentive vermiculite. At worst I'll just have to bring the space-hog tree into the house again, and keep trying. My next step will be to cut back a couple of the long-to-the-side-reaching branches "hard." Not all of them, lest cutting back beyond where there's visible green growth results in basically killing that branch, as it would with, say, a spruce tree. But if I do a couple, and the tree pushes new growth well back toward the central trunk, that means there's a chance I can eventually make the tree fit better into my house for the winter. If the cuttings fail and I have to try again next year. Kinda feel like I'm talking to the air here, since no one has responded in over two weeks. But maybe my musings and experience so far will help someone else. I'll update in 4-6 weeks unless somebody actually says something. Joan