Desert Rose, Oh I didn't read that right I thought you had LC planted there instead of Quicksilver lol. I must need my eyes checked 😅 I agree QS is a good rose. Always blooming here. I have 2 grafted QS and 2 own roots. The grafted ones bloomed wel the first year. The 2 own roots took a few years before they bloomed a lot, regularly. It was sporadic at first. Here Lav Crush has a nice citrusy fragrance. Quick Silver barely has any fragrance. LC gets more black spot that QS during our hot rainy summer season. They are both good roses. The LC is much more purple with a pale reverse on the petals. QS is more Lavender.

Sylvia , I’ve been super pleased with their service . Costco feels like a cattle herding service . So impersonal, no one ever ever helps or offers unless you stop them in their tracks . When I go to sams I am offered help to my car if my load seems big and if they don’t offer I ask and they are so happy to do so. Those bags of soil get so heavy after a while ! When I found the white pots , a girl had just cranked the pallet out from the back . I gasped and said oh my gosh how much are those ? She happily unwrapped them , scanned it , and went and got me a flat bed , loaded it for me and took it to the front since I had my baby in a cart ! That’s service !!! I love sams club !! Summers , they are popular in the south, or where when they were made !! I do follow someone in Ny who has the matching settee!! What a find . I’d be so thrilled if I found one . Here’s a snap of hers . There is some amazing garden inspiration on Instagram!

The way I figured out what my second mis-labeled rose was from the local nursery (purchased Jan 2021) was I went to the Weeks website and looked at every purple rose they carried that year. I was able to narrow it down to Fragrant Plum. Another tip is to look at the name of the rose you wanted... sometimes it's close alphabetically to the mis-labeled one you got. The one I wanted above was Gold Medal. One time I was at Vintage Roses' retail site, and brought up a Mount Hood. It didn't have the original tag, but it had the big row-ender stake. Gregg (the owner) told me he doubted it was Mount Hood, but I took a chance. It wasn't Mount Hood, but knowing that it was in that row eventually helped me to ID it as Monet, now an ultra-rare rose that I still have and propagate :-D

Yes, wowza, Ben! It sure would be nice to grow Lavender Crush in its full glory. So fanning the canes out horizontally works beautifully if you have a really big space, but since I don’t, I’m wondering if the canes are flexible enough to snake and criss-cross up a ~4-foot-wide trellis at ~45 degree angles. That could maybe be an alternative to the shrub approach in the space that I have. The shrub approach seems to work reasonably well, but I think it wouldn’t allow for lateral breaks to maximize blooms?