@jerijen Oh, My, I lived sooooo close to you when I was in CA! Loved looking at roses at Monrovia Nursery! I had friends in Alhambra! Ny fav place used to be to visit Laguna Beach! That is incredible that you were friends w/ Ingrid Wopelhorst! She’s like a ”rose celebrity for Benny Lopez!” Cerise Benny Lopez!!!! Lovely color! My it’s a small world. Do you still stay in touch w/ her?? Oh, yes!!!! The peacocks at the Arboretum! Wonderful memories! I used to drive daily past the race tracks to work on Huntington Dr and through Pasadena neighborhoods to see their rose gardens in their landscapes !!!! I’d get my ideas from their gardens. Abd kove the Long Beach Aquarium, The Hollywood Bowl, and Disney new auditorium for concerts-what do they call it now? Yes, we have much in common!

Rouge, these transplant rather easily, you can move a few around as desired and weed the others out, I get sooo many 'GJ' seedlings that I'm insensitive to culling vast numbers. Nice photo btw !! Rosaprimula, agastache foeniculum is native here, not overly common, though once in the garden always will be some seeds sprouting over the years, plants are prone to some type of stem wilt. Others don't return for me, there's been no sign of the many 'Globetrotter' set out last spring, no seedlings as well, though have some languishing in a tray, should get to those! Some of these tall sorts will hybridize between themselves and interesting seedlings can come to be.

A lil history on the sky views acquisition Wasn't planning it We had a late frost freeze. I ended removing like 2ft off each end with dead buds. Here I was thinking, going to be a leafy bush this year. So I ordered the skyviews to trial....due to it's marketed abilities... Strangley, its almost August but the Macs' which I ended removing 2 feet of late frost bud damage, it's about 50% covered in blooms which I wasn't expecting. Some of it is also coming from *new wood* . Maybe the innovation in breeding is accurate on those pesky marketing verbiage. Check out those Can Do Pics. I wouldn't even have looked for it until I spied one new brocolli and when I poked around further, new buds on *old wood* below a bloomed head. I dunno, but having a 2nd flush of new blooms to replace aged-tired blooms on old wood is new to me

If you like it, Raspberry Cupcake (KORcarmsis), it has a probable sister, Carmen Wurth (KORjupvio) and its sport, Königin Marie (KORcarmut). The pattern in codenames is actually humorous and well done by Kordes this time. Violette Parfumee, New Zealand and Caramel Fairy Tale seem to be the likely parents. So, two HT sniffers and a "flori-gusa". I declined on these guys because it was never obvious what size they would be here. Every reference was different. Can't plan out the garden with random dimensions. But I was interested.