Straw wrote: "Khalid: Your roses look very good in high heat, nice colors and healthy foliage. My Just Joey looks really bad, blooms bleached out to beige, so I don't even post pics. I might move it to partial shade for better color. We are in hot & dry phase, up to 90 F, or 32 C." Straw: 90*F is not high heat for roses in my view. I mean in this temperature, my roses were performing very well. Could there be other (primary) reason for your Just Joey or any other rose not performing that well. I am not sure if 90*F alone is enough to cause deterioration in performance of a particular cultivar. I mean some mineral deficiency / excess or some issue with the soil that gets amplified due to rise in temp? Or could it be that my roses have slowly been acclimatized to perform better in heat? Just trying to understand what could be the reason for my Just Joey being quite yellow in 105*F and your's turning beige in 90*F. best regards PS: Sam, did you see the photos of Rose Biomes posted above? Jess: Alec's Red hasn't impressed me much. It is almost completely non fragrant since the temps rose above 100*F and is blooming sparsely. When I compare it's performance with many other roses, I would rate it quite low with regards to performance in summers though it performs much better when it is cooler. Sorry no experience of growing Christopher Columbus. I haven't actually seen it here.

Jeff, to have a hope of having the crape myrtle look like it's not in a completely wrong position (smack in front of the window) you'll need to lift the canopy by not cutting it back to any lower than the eves. And then clean the trunks so there's no foliage on them. It should all be over head ... no in your face, or in front of the window. No question about it that the house would look much better if the walk were widened quite a bit, given the proximity of the porch opening and its width. And don't plant in front of this area, except at the edges. A small, multi-trunk tree (or cluster of palms such as Pindo) off of the left house corner of the house would help frame and give it a nestled in look ... like it's integrated into the landscape, not just stuck on top. The bed is reshaped to accommodate the tree and is filled with groundcover. The colors don't indicate specific plants, just sizes, shapes and locations. Though I did not draw it, I'm sure you could use a similar small tree and bed below off of the right house corner.

He's real, and he's selling me a couple plants. I'm already growing Silene undulata, African dream root. I'll tell the results of my experiments later. 😴😌😵🤯 The plant is real too. Check it out. By the way, I can no longer post questions here even in gardenweb side, and I can't post to complain about it either. Maybe I'll be forced to piggyback my questions in other's threads.😲

Could you circle these tendrils because I still don’t see them however much I enlarge the picture? And please could you give measurements for the leaves? There’s nothing to give a sense of scale. Meanwhile compare with Abrus precatorius.