It depends on whether you want Cutting roses foe taking them inside or you are just interested in a beautiful garden display. They have numerous roses that have ADR certificate which means that they should be resistant to PM, blackspot and rust, should be drought tolerant and self-cleaning. My floral fairy tale, Cinderella (fairy taleand Caramelle Fairy Tale are not ADRcertified because I must deadhead then; other than that they clean (caramella might have a few spots, not blackspot though. Of the climbers Laguna is awesome: clean and has wonderful fragrabce. I wish I could find a good spot for accommodating to order Kordes'climber, Aloha. so far I mentioned a few landscape plants I bought from them last year. In the HT category, in case you are interested, I would look at Caramel Antike and a few Freelander HTs - depending your color preference. They have other older HTs as well and those roses are very good. I would definitely buy Papa Meilland and Valencia from them and Would ask for 'leftover' Barkarole. THey alo list a number of old garden roses that would (should( work in your zone; I cannot comment on those, becasue they would probably not do well here in the southeast. And, mosy importantly, do not be afraid to ask questions or recomendations from the owner. I would

Stink own root in colder zones? Do you mean they don't do well as own root in colder zones?? I did get a call back & they said they wouldn't get anymore of that rose (comte de chambord) back in until next September :( I do have another place who wrote me & said they can sell me up to 2. I need 5, but I can probably do with 2 for now. I like the floribundas on palatines site as well, but the all say zone 5b & warmer. I thought Kordes were supposed to be a hardier brand? I guess I was wrong.

Pete, I think that water is water, food, means food regardless of the language. If you love roses, you will have no problem admiring them. The people growing them will, like most rose growers, be glad to share. As to our own country, people to tend to isolate themselves, which is silly. My AA sponsor told me to stop watching the news as it was making me nuts (at least more nuts than I am.) I was still able to catch the big stuff like 9/11. If you are a member of a local ARS club, what is a better way of trying to get new members. Our gerontic members are slowly dying off. Bummer! Not everyone is Jack the Ripper. Last night I was riding my motorpickle home and it was wind gust city. I have a large faring on my BMW. I was stopped at a red light with the weight on my left foot. The wind blew the motorpickle over to the right. I had a knot in the end of my shoelace of my John Deere boot. The wind whipped it into the float snap of the carburetor. I went to put my right foot down and I broke the carb trying to get free and rolled over anyways. I was unable to stop the flow of gasoline out of the carburetor, so I turned off the gas at the petcock. The engine had died as I had it in first with the clutch in. I was swarmed with well wishers. The bike was "up" in no time. Fred, a stranger just driving by with his son, was towing one of those low trailers and told me he would pull off at the next drive, we loaded the bike and he took me home. He would not take any money, but I cut him some roses I still had blooming for his wife. Yes, those "Just Joey" ones I had been babying covering at night. Thank God I grow roses! Foghorn

Been there, done that...lint is such a HUGE annoyance to my life. We're in a 2nd floor condo where the dryer vent ducting goes to the roof through the attic over 20 feet and several elbows. My husband bought the condo years before we met, and the ducting was clogged after several years. At the time, he decided to disconnect the vent from the duct. The resulting moisture did some damage to the cabinetry (swelling of the particle board, even under layers of oil-based paint). Soon after we married, he decided we needed to fix the problem correctly. He went up into the attic and disassembled the ducting, brought it outside, and blew it out with his air compressor. I pushed some cleaning tool through it as well. We can't be doing this regularly! I mean preferably, never again! So, I had him put a filter -- a gallon paint strainer -- over the dryer vent where it connects to the machine. This clogs every month or so, we pull the machine out, disconnect the vent, clean the strainer, and put it back. This is still an annoying chore, but not the nightmare of dealing with the whole duct run. My husband had a cool idea, that what we need to do is sew a new, longer strainer that tapers to a skinny point, so that even when it clogs at the point, there can still be air flowing past the clogged strainer, and we should be able to go longer between cleanings. We got a new dryer last summer, and pulled the ducting out of the attic to clean it -- but it was already clean as a whistle. So, our secondary filter system has kept the duct run clean for 9 years. I found you can buy secondary lint traps with a door that opens to clean them out, but we don't have room to install the box in our laundry room, and I don't think it would work any better or be easier to clean than our homemade filter. When I redo the floor, I plan to put magic slider thingies under the dryer feet to make it easier to move in and out, plus I won't want to gouge my new floor. I have researched other solutions. People claim that solid metal vent will maintain better airflow than pleated, but I think it will still clog because we need 2 90-degree elbows to get it connected to the duct in the wall. And if it clogs, how do we pull out the machine with a non-stretching vent? If we could move the duct in the wall to match the dryer vent outlet, that would eliminate 2 elbows and would probably help... I also found you can install a secondary fan in the ducting near the exit, increasing the airspeed in long ducts so the lint won't clog. They cost $150-200, but if I never had to clean out the duct run or pull out the dryer to clean my makeshift secondary lint trap ever again, it would be well worth it. I also think that our ducting is leaky somewhere, because rooms on the other side of the wall (our master bath) get crusted with lint all the time. Finding and sealing those leaks would probably improve airspeed some, plus save me tons of work cleaning the lint all the time. I think the additional fan is the way to go. In 2 other areas where we replaced an ineffective low-cfm cheap fan with a high-cfm good one, like the hood over our cooktop, it made an amazing difference, night and day. Here is a link that might be useful: example of dryer duct fan