Alright, logging in for once. Happy Birthday to me. laughs. If you are to ask anyone it is Kim. I'm Florida not California. No matter how much I love Ralph Moore roses I'll never have the expertise of Kim. I've tried 200 plus Ralph Moores in Florida have over 200 left. Best BY FAR for Florida - read "for me" - Have been the climbers he grew. But, that applies for growing in sandy soil of Florida. Morcrest was great 1-72-1 I couldn't ask for more. Green Ice is great in Florida. It is all different for me. The climbing minis and bractea have been great for me. I'd pay $ to touch base with Burling - she is the best. Preserve his roses. She doesn't ship to Fl. So, to the person that said I was famous today, talk to her and Kim! I'm just a stupid zone pusher. One day I hope to find a way to introduce my crosses. Kim and Burling have life experiences I could never touch. I have some poems. I've never met the man . I just do not want to see his roses go extinct. Alister Clark is another. Florinda Norman Thompson is a rose I've called all over the world looking for - The only info found so far has been .... Flower large, full, globular, lasting, fragrant, delicate rose on lemon, deep at base, reflex edged 1/4inch with shell-pink on lemon, borne on stiff stem. Foliage leathery, glossy. Growth vigorous; profuse bloomer.The grandson of this great plant hunter is looking for a rose from Dickson's (1920s) named for his grandmother:'Florinda Norman Thompson' and would appreciate any information, photo, etc. Please dig deep ladies and gentlemen . =) I appreciate your time, and would love to find this rose. How to Grow Roses Successfully Frank Mason 1983 P 2.50 Roses For New Zealand Conditions 2nd ed Frank Mason 1958 P 2.00 Here's the entry for 'Nancy Elizabeth' in "New Roses of the World (1950): 'Nancy Elizabeth' Hybrid Tea. (Frank Mason, 1947). 'Korovo' x 'Florinda Norman Thompson'. Large, long pointed bud. Large, high-centered, double bloom borne several together. Cream. Moderate fragrance... http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/ezine.php?i=B522&tab=1 Also a listing for Pat Mason comes up same year. Married ? 200 hundred roses in garden , only 10 or so listed in helpmefind under Pat Mason. Frank Mason & Son Ltd. Sandon Road P.O. Box 155 Feilding, New Zealand 06-323-5226 I have found several pictures of Florinda Norman Thompson in her family geneology records, but no rose yet. http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?i=U156&tab=8 Alex Sutton's info on Florinda Norman Thompson How to Grow Roses Successfully Frank Mason 1983 Roses For New Zealand Conditions 2nd ed Frank Mason 1958 May help. Found at http://touchwoodbooks.co.nz/2h/tsecroses.html Frank Mason also grew Little John. He is the only person who I have found that has owned the plant. If anyone can help I'd love to help someone else with a cutting. Thank You. Regards, Andrew Grover St. Pete Fl

I need help - I recently purchased 2 HM recliners - it's only been a few months but so far I really like them, though we have had an issue already with the cushions. The cushions we got were not the same ones that the chairs had in the store. But they are replacing them. After months of contemplating purchasing the Journey sofa & bringing home leather samples, all Class 2 (document and cavalier) we finally made the purchase this past Fri. night - bought the Journey Sofa in Cavalier Hunter Green - so excited-put the required 25% down and was told it would be 4 mos till it would be delivered. I was willing to wait that long because this is the sofa and color we really want. Unfortunately, today I got a call from the store and they said the leather I picked can only go on the City Sofa. I can only chose from Document she told me-otherwise if I want the Cavalier it will cost me $$$$$$ - I can't believe I find out after 2 mos of shopping at this store. I feel like it's bait and switch. Does anyone know where I can get the Journey Sofa with the Cavalier Hunter Green without paying out the wazoo!!! This shouldn't be so confusing and misleading. Now i need to stop the transaction and start the whole process over. Up until reading this no one at the store I've been working with ever mentioned this "married" issue of the leater and the sofa's. I'm so disappointed

It has been a while since the last activity on this thread, and I felt it might be beneficial to give my updated perspective on White Opulence #879 from Benjamin Moore as a paint color for main areas. Having lived with this color for a bit longer now since my last comment, I am beginning to understand how tightly it regulates what other colors can be placed with it for anyone who cares about a homogeneous scheme and also how undeniable the pink tone can be when applied over large surface areas. White Opulence is a tint of red, but it is so light that in ample daylight or under bright white lighting it can "read" as white. In average daylight, it produces a whisper-light pink hue. The effect of this is magnified the larger the area that is covered by it. Using this color on the walls in the main space of a large, open-plan layout with high ceilings, for example, will imbue the area with a light, yet undeniable, pale pink cast in average lighting. It would be a good idea to prepare not only yourself but also any other significant users of the space of the pink tinge before selecting this color because some people truly dislike pink, and it is courteous to work with all regular users of spaces during design planning to try to ensure no one will be overly uncomfortable with the final effect. One thing that hasn't been discussed is how White Opulence can cast a peach tone under warmer lighting colors, especially in the absence of any compensating daylight, meaning nighttime in most home spaces. If peach is a color you want to avoid and you utilize warm lighting -- that is, progressively orange-tinged the further under a 4000K color temperature you go -- then this is a paint color to avoid. The general recommendation is that 4000K is quite cool for home environments, so if you don't know what color temperature your home lighting is, you can probably assume it is warmer than 4000K if you selected average bulbs from your home supplies provider. White Opulence as a red-based white was an attractive choice for my main space because I already had a red accent in a permanent finish and personally prefer the fresh look that a red-white lends versus common alternate choices for main area wall colors like yellow-based beiges or blue-based grays. The problem is that so many home goods available are manufactured in colors that go with beige and gray wall colors rather than the faint red-white of White Opulence that color coordination requires more work than may be expected. Of course, you could decorate using pure white items, but what you really need are options for whisper pink basics which are hard to find. Adding stronger pink or red items is not always the solution either because you cannot feasibly fill the room with accents; you need some basics that blend with the wall tone. Then there is the issue of coordinating White Opulence with colors for auxiliary rooms if you wish to have some variety throughout the home while still maintaining the feel that all of the home's colors work together. Most blues coordinate with White Opulence, but if you have already used red accents in rooms painted with White Opulence, then red is challenging to pair with blue in most instances unless it is a dark, cool blue like navy. Where this has been a dilemma for me has been my hallway colors connecting the main open space to the bedrooms which are all different pastels. The color plan I have will work, and I'll enjoy the variety of colors that I have been able to make flow together, but to be honest, at times I have wondered how much easier the design process might have been if I had picked plain white for the main space. White is the ultimate neutral some might say. At the very least, a basic white for the main area would have given me more freedom in selecting fabrics and other home products for the main space as well as coordinating colors for other rooms. It is all too easy to second-guess decisions that will affect your life long-term. I am using Benjamin Moore's durable Aura formula in a satin finish, so I expect the new White Opulence paint will last decades. Had I selected a plain white or yellow- or blue-based off white, I might be back on this very forum wishing I had gone with White Opulence to add appeal beyond the standard choices. I hope this is helpful to anyone still considering this color.

All paint colors have a CIELAB value. It's like color DNA. Those values are used to figure out how to make paint colors. There is more than one way to mix the same color. In other words, there are several combinations of colorants that will result in the same color. That's how crossing brands works. Everybody is using the same (essentially) CIELAB value and paint chip as the target. Sometimes it's easy to hit that target using another brand's bases and colorants and sometimes it's not. Which is why some paint colors cross brands easily and some do not. How well the store's equipment is maintained and calibrated is a factor as well. Comparing formulas - even within the same brand - isn't going to tell you anything. The list of colorants is completely meaningless because the formula is not the genesis of the paint color. The CIELAB value is. The only way to know how good or bad a color match is, is to measure it with a device. Like a spectrophotometer at the paint store or a hand-held colorimeter like a Color Muse that you can buy in some SW stores, The Home Depot, or order it off Amazon. A color measurement device captures CIELAB values from dried samples and the apps that go with them tells you in terms of Delta E how much the two colors, original and the match, differs.