All beautiful and just a few blooms:). I say, wanted to start saying which is my favorite, but I like them all. Have to say you multi graft w Black Purple & Rik Ni Ran is quite appealing. Nice choices. The Kenjana Yellow always is so special and the White Angel always seems to put on a show. Nice to see your seedling of Electric Plasma again. Rick

Nice to hear things are getting started. I have my first bloom today on Moonlit Masquerade, nice to see but down in the foliage. Two scapes are really short, the rest look like they will be what I usually see here. My Stella’s are scraping, and I found scapes on Christine Dixon, a recent addition. Sherry

I love Betty Corning! I have Duchess of Albany that covers my side fence, very similar, and it's such a sweet, cheerful plant! She's all budded up, but not blooming quite yet. I love that day lily as well. Very pretty.

This thing about "when in rose season does a given variety start to bloom" is a big deal for me. As I've mentioned before, I don't much care for roses that open very late,because of the bad summer weather. Another reason is that, with so many roses, I don't really dead-head,so after the main flush is over, the whole garden tends to have a pretty tatty,messy appearence, so the late blooms can make me feel guilty that I don't give them a nice setting. But then there's this other thing about orchestrating garden areas to obtain certain colour harmonies. Right now, I have this kind of luscious little bouquet of Burgundy Iceberg, Mme. Ligier, and Azubis : burgundy, violet-pink, and lavender-I just LOVE it. So I'd love it if I could get this one particular plant of Rosengarten Z, in this one particular spot, to bloom earlier, because it is that special,rare dark purple,maintaining the colour in heat pretty well. Also, being a climber,it's vigorous enough to be pretty easy in my tough conditions-I just recently have started with floribundas, for example,and am finding that many of them are harder to get going,and don't really accept being watered only in their first year. It's funny, because if you look on the Lens Roses site http://www.lens-roses.be/en_US/shop/page/13?ecom_main_cat=4&ecom_cat=25&ppg=12 ,you'll see that they offer both Rosengarten Z and Roville,but they say that RZ blooms from June-October,whereas Roville blooms July-Oct.Instead, in my garden, Roville starts early, in main rose season..(.and,I might add is still going strong and looking great now in mid-July!!! What a rose! This is the first year it's done this; previously I never thought that much of it) Instead, Super Dorothy starts late as they say it does on the site, as does Super Excelsa, though this latter is a little earlier than SD.