Hoov, I totally agree I may not be remembering this rose entirely right, as I was quite young at the time. My memory could be a bit faulty as to the size of the bush. However, after doing research on all the roses mentioned, I happened upon the Hybrid Perpetual "American Beauty" a/k/a "Madame Ferdinand Jamin". Out of all of them, this seems like it might be it. For the one thing, all of the others post-date the time that the prior owners were in the home. The house was built in the late 1960's at the most - it was a new housing development. We were the 2nd owners and I remembered we moved there in March of 1970, when my youngest sister was only 3 months old. So, the rose bush could not have originated in it's inception prior to 1969 at the most and most mentioned were after that time - early 1970's and thereafter. Also - some of the blooms were too light a pink, or too deep and going into red. I do know that the rose was a hot pink, because there were other bushes on the property, including a red one (I'm pretty sure it was a climbing Don Juan thinking back on it now). I guess if the person who lived there was someone who knew more than a little about roses (there were several in the yard), having other bushes than just regular hybrid teas would not be out of the ordinary. There was some thought put into that backyard; as far as the flowering plants in it. Anyway, I still could be wrong but this one fits the bill for what my needs are at the moment too. The house I purchased last year is very old (95 years) and my intention was to fill in some spaces of my new landscaping (just done this year) with as many roses as I can fit in - but not anything common. I'm partial to the David Austins, having had good luck with them previously and, other than replicating a few others from my other home that I had to leave behind that worked well for me (Papa Meilland, French Lace, Tropicana); I was hoping to also find a few "older" varieties so a HP would be a nice addition - and since it matches what I recall from my childhood all the better :D Now I just have a pick out at least two really good climbers and I'm set!

Make sure your plants have stakes or cages that will handle the vines when they are 2 or 3 times the current height. I'll let someone else address the Brandywine issue. The link at the end of this post gives url's of several good tomato databases, as well as two books about tomato varieties which you might want to look for at your local public library or bookstore. Re. Patio Hybrid, some quotations from various databases and vendors: ===== Patio F1 Hybrid Determinate The very compact plants, about two feet tall, are a very reliable producer of lots of tomatoes the size of tennis-balls (or larger), and have attractive dark green foliage. Although the plants are determinate, they produce so many tomatoes that the sheer weight of the fruit may pull the plants over, so it's best to give them some support - a stake or two will suffice. Tomatoes are ripe in about 70 days after transplanting out. ===== Hybrid. Early small salad tomato with red, 4-ounce, tennis-ball-sized (or larger) fruit. Dwarf, 2-foot plants developed for bedding and containers with dark green, bushy, potato-leaf foliage. Days To Maturity: 50-70 ===== Photos of Patio Hybrid, and more comments: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/30768/ Here is a link that might be useful: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tomato/msg0622294625839.html?3

My neighbor recently had her kitchen redone. She had granite counters installed. The problem with the counters was that her counters followed an L shape and the short side of the L had different height cabinets than the long side of the L. This happened because she had a cooktop and under counter oven installed and the KD did not allow enough room in the oven cabinet for the proper clearance under the oven and the proper clearance between the cooktop and the oven. Prior to counter top install, but after templating, the oven was installed, but a filler strip was added to the top and bottom of the cabinet holding the cooktop and the oven. This raised the counter top 1.5 inches. The company installing the counters was not aware of this until they came to install the countertops. Lo and behold, they dry fitted the counters and noticed the height difference. The solution was to add filler to the other side. It isn't noticeable unless she points it out. The filler matches her cabinets and the counters are level. She is only 5'3" and states that she actually like the slightly higher counters as it makes it easier for her do do everyday tasks. She loves the kitchen and a situation similar to yours, except with the same material of countertop, resolved. Longs way to make a point, I know, but could you place filler strip under the cabinet with the lower counter to raise it level? Do door need to match the cabinets on either side? I notice in one of the posted photos that the doors aren't level and the toe kicks aren't either......

Kate - Wow, it looks similar, but not the same. The eyezone is a much darker color than mine, and edge more prominent. Also there's not much differentiation in the outside eye and the inside eye color. I wonder if it could be a seedling out of Stenciled Infusion that got mislabeled and then propagated by Schreiner's as the real deal. I know you, Kay, and Mantis have all been disappointed with the cultivar, and I suspect you all got it from Schreiner's. I'm on a FB daylily site with Bill Maryott, and he mentioned this spring that he has never been able to get a seedling out of Stenciled Infusion that is as good as the original. Is your bloom a six incher? Debra