Thanks for pruning info , Ben. I don't prune as hard as you do. I let many of my plants get pretty big. I think some might do better pruned harder. I am trying to rejuvenate some old ones that are in decline by pruning hard. Last year tried it on Golden Celebration and it did not bounce back bigger and better than ever last year. However it is looking pretty good this year. This year I am hard pruning The Pilgrim. So far, after decades , my roses grafted on Fortuniana have been hardy enough down to four degrees in zone 7a, NC. I have a big Fortuniana plant which came through the recent week of hard freezes with no apparent damage. It's the earliest rose to bloom, is covered in buds which went through the freeze, and I'll see soon whether or not they were ruined. But the canes and leaves look great. It's a virus free Fortuniana given to me by the late Vernon Rickard. I would not be surprised if being virus free made it hardier.

Herman, thanks for the update. It’s great to see fruit already. How large are the Conestoga 026 Segentrange and Poncirus Plus fruit? They look similar to PT…….or are they larger…….photos can be hard to judge. Great to hear 5* Citrumelo has some sweetness. Fruit ripens around Thanksgiving……but the size is clearly larger than PT…….a nice selection. Getting fruit in 3 years is very fast. I gave my brother who lives in Fairfax, VA a seed grown Citrumelo 12 years ago and it still hasn’t bloomed! Keep the updates coming.

Bruce, thank you for identifying the lily, yes that looks like it!!! FrozeBudd, you have a great taste in flowers & know the ones which make an impact. That orange on 'Tiny Double You' is very striking. However, the thought of hunching over to check low growing dense lilies for lily beetles deters me - if only this long cold spell killed off the beetles and not the lilies! I'm giving Veseys a try again for lilies, hopefully they are better quality this time. Costco online has lilies available for pre-order again (although the pictures fully don't match the IDs), 42 bulbs for $44.99! https://www.costco.ca/bulbs-plants-seeds.html 

@strawchicago z5 -beautiful pic of your CPM. I love how many blooms there are, mine never had that many at once this past season. The above pic of my orange is Carding Mill, I think I called it CM to shorten, but it isn't my crown princess. I wish my crown princess was as healthy as my Carding Mills. Hopefully next season it will be after it over-winters with alfalfa hay on top. I did notice that my cPm DID get deeper orange/dark pink tones that then faded to yellow a couple days later after I watered with Neptunes this past summer. There weren't as many blooms as yours, but the Neptunes seemed to make the few fowers I got, a deeper color :)