Vettin: This is an incredible list. It's way too big for only 10. I'll give you some items that stand out to me as either easy or special favorites of mine. Buddleia--butterfly bush--large fragrant clusters of small blooms. Can get to be large. I love mine. Campanula--if I lived where you do, I would definitly try some of these. The kind of fizzle in the heat here but I think they could work for you. Called "bellflower", they are beautiful plants. Clematis--I have several. look into these and take your garden vertically. They look great with climbing roses or beautiful by themselves. Coreopsis--called "tickseed", they look a lot like daisies. They are easy to grow and bloom very well. A great group of plants. Delphinium--I love these but can't grow them because they don't like my heat. I've heard of others in N. VA who do well with them. GET SOME OF THESE! Dianthus--carnations are in this family. They bloom well and smell great. The ones I grow are rather low growing and great in the garden. Digitalis (foxglove)--Nice tall plant with really pretty bell shaped flowers. They are tall and narrow and add a differnt look and texture to a garden. Edgeworthia--This plant blooms in winter with incredibly fragrant blooms that look a lot like Daphne. The Atlanta Bontanical Gardens have several. They are unique looking and well worth the garden space for the winter blooms. Helleborus--another winter bloomer. EASY plants that take no care and can spread so you can share with your friends. Hosta--a VERY low care EASY plant for a shady area. The clump gets larger and had to be "thinned" every few years but that means you can spread them around. Several of these varieties are nice. Hydrangea--look at the two arborescens. I like these. Beautiful huge clusters of white blooms. Iris--a great EASY plant. Don't plant them deeply at all--almost on the surface or they won't bloom or worse, will rot. I recognize two Iris germanica (bearded irs) as being rebloomers--they bloom in the spring AND fall--Lo How Sliver (white) and Sugar Blues (blue and fragrant). Get at least one of each of these and look up the others to see what they are. Lithodora--a very low growing plant with bright blue star shaped flowers. The foliage is dark green. I really like this plant. Osmanthus fragrans--I did not realize that this plant was hardy in N. VA. If it is, GET AT LEAST ONE! It's evergreen, slow growing, can get 15 feet tall but will tolerate pruning. I keep mine at about 6 feet. Mine bloom in the spring and fall with scattered bloom in the summer. The blooms are tiny and you don't really notice them until you SMELL them. The fragrance carries across the yard and it's incredible. This is one of my favorite plants (and it's not even a rose). Philidelphus--mock orange. Beautiful white blooms in the late spring for me. The frangrance is wonderful. Phlox--there are several different kinds listed. All are great plants in my garden. They give a good selections of colors and they are easy plants. Rudbeckia--black eyed susans--nice sunny cheerful plant easy and blooms for a long time. Salvia--good plants--easy and pretty Scabiosa--pincushion flower--I have butterfly blue and it is one of the best blooming plants I own. The little blue/lavender blooms--about 1 1/2 in. across come from early spring to frost. Easy, easy plant. It's kind of low growing with stems that stick up with the bloom on top. A very nice plant. Hope this helps. Remember, this is just my opinion and I am not in your zone. I also looked at the list quickly and may have missed something wonderful. Enjoy the sale. Take a lot of $ and a truck to carry everything home. Let us know what you end up getting.

What Sylvia said. TX summers can be rough on roses, especially babies. This Aug. is a HOT one. The crisping leaves concerns me that the granular fertilizer may still be having a bad effect. They are all salts & just like table salt, they're very drying. You can burn plants with organics, too, but granulars are a lot more potent & tricky to use. Also, that your soil around them is "bone dry" 5-6" deep--that's too dry. Yes, roses can be overwatered, but that doesn't sound like the problem now. I'd suggest starting with a good, DEEP watering. Water them well with a hose, make several passes around the yard hitting each plant repeatedly until the dirt is SATURATED. Stick a screwdriver down around them to make sure. It's harder to get it deeply, completely, wet using sprinklers--try to use a hose. For example, fill a 5 gallon bucket from your hose, counting how many seconds it takes--takes me about 30 seconds or so. So when I'm watering, I know it will take at least 30-60 seconds watering from a hose to get 5-10 gallons of water onto a plant--a deep saturating watering for a small shrub or young tree. After you've got your roses watered very well, mulch the heck out of them to retard evaporation--leaves, bark chips, old hay--whatever will cover the bare soil to help hold moisture in. Then keep them well watered throughout this hardest part of the year. Usually, by mid Sept, just 5 weeks off, temps moderate & there starts to be a big improvement in how roses look. Also, don't feel bad that some of the odd colored roses, e.g. Sterling Silver, Cale Ole, look & perform middlin. SS is a famous wimp! I love it & grow it, but it will never be "KnockOut" robust--it just doesn't have the genetics. Such specialty roses will always be your problem children & need a bit more babying through the worst weather of the year. That's okay--I think they're worth it, but they might need a location of more moderate temps, like partial shade, if you have them in pots where they can be moved. And that's another thing to consider with these young plants that are crisping--if you can't move them to part shade, cover them a bit with burlap, shade cloth, even a lawn chair to help them recover from scalding for the next few weeks. Hang on, give them some supportive treatment & wait for fall--often our very best rose season!

Hi Sophia, I can give little input on repetition. I don't pay attention to that here in non-winter land. Poor Abraham Darby got suckers from his Dr. Huey root stock after 4 yrs. and I thought they were the octopus canes I'd read about. By the time I figured it out they had taken over. I battle them every year (difficult access). Poor Abe is now only 3 feet high but in my climate grows easily to 6 feet +. Dr Huey is stealing nutrients and water. Large petal packed wafting uber fragrant blooms. Some blackspot in a non-spray garden. Evelyn is in the path of the wind. She has a lovely spring flush (no winds) and sporadic bloom thereafter (regular winds). No blackspot this year on either as yet. Disease wise I'd say they're equal here (very little). Evelyn's blooms are probably the same diameter as Abe's but not as deep. I keep her under 5 feet with pruning. A 7 ft. arching cane appeared after 6 or 8 years. Colors - Abe is usually a pink fully infused with peach-yellow-mango. Full bodied oomphy color. Lasts no more than 3 days in a bouquet. In Sept. mine changes to a warm medium pink, not as peachy as spring but never bluey-pink. A boring everyday color. In Nov. it is back to a prettier peachy pink. Evelyn, ah Evelyn. The pink dawn touched by sunlight? Not pink, not peach, but a sophisticated blend on gossamer satin petals. I think it is the delicate iridescence that captivates. If I could only have one rose bloom a year it would be her. So you see I am terribly prejudiced and pay little attention to the bush.

Thank you so much for all your words of kindness and encouragement. Really means a lot to me. I promise to post video up-dates and especially when all the flowers are in bloom 😊 I cut back my roses hard every year to avoid tall leggy shrubs. Compact and full of blooms look much better. Yeah I do plant quite close to one another for a quicker more full appearance. And it’s surprising how well they thrive alongside one another. If you look at David Austin’s rose garden, they plant their roses very close to each other too. As long as you feed them twice during the growing season there are no problems. And make sure they’re well watered especially during hot weather. Ohh 🙈I rarely go in front of the camera. My plants are much more interesting haha. I was wearing a thick wool sweater.... life saver during the horrid cold winter. Well I very much look forward to seeing all your gardens this summer. Pls do keep me posted! Lots of love and thanks. Darren. XO