Thank you for showing! Since I have for a long time not had a look on the NOT-American branch of Amaryllids, so I have YET to decide whether these are LYCORIS or NERINE Although the edges of the flower segments are conspicuously frilled, I presume Lycoris squamigera

I haven't seen JBs all July. June was their heaviest time for me last year but this year I only caught less than 10 all in all during my morning rounds this year. It seemed to be a combination of fewer of them this year and no blooms to attack due to midges.

Thank youNancy and Nancy. The edge on Keep on Looking is usually really nice, and it opens early morning warm or cool. SC Eye for Obsession, on the other hand is very short and does not open as well early, but is a pretty bloom. I am not overly fone of the really short ones though kay

Dianela, yep it was me that admitted having 1000 roses and anyone else is welcome to use me as a lesson for their families of how much many roses they COULD have bought but didn't. I'm not alone in having a ton of roses on here, but I probably set some kind of GW record for sheer numbers of roses that die each year and (oh the horrors) HAVE to be replaced. Soooo reluctantly of course (smile). This year I'm only at 222 roses that I've ordered for spring planting, and that's about my replacement rate of roses that die over my zone 5 winters, though I'm getting smarter and planting more once-bloomers and shrubs so I might actually run out of space one of these days. Not this year though. Rockridge thanks for the offer of the pictures. I don't think my patient DH would be too thrilled about a trip to the west coast to look at someone else's roses on top of these new rose purchases too. Hey, I consider that a money-saving measure already. Aha - time to visit the new revamped High Country Roses website and spend all that money I've "saved"... Cynthia