@Aaron Rosarian Zone 5b Thank you SO much for mentioning that Stephen Rulo was available at Wisconsin Roses yesterday. I emailed Steve the minute I saw your post last night, and he replied this morning, and he's holding one for me. I also was thrilled to see Alakazam on his "don't have many of these" list, so I ordered one of those too. I've had great results with his maidens over the years, and he budded one of my rarest (and hard to root) roses for me last summer... Westminster Pink. Anyway, you made my day yesterday :-D

Thanks Meghan! I promised myself to only purchase highly fragrant and disease resistant roses, but looking at the photos of Yves Piaget and Rouge Royale, they are so tempting (although questionable disease resistance from what I read). Oh boy, wishing that they sell out soon before I change my mind :)

Great welcoming news to everyone out there. There is huge sale listing of also new roses at www.menagerieflower.com try to browse over there pretty soon before their listing of this years rarest of theJalbert roses before they are sold out. They are both of are "Beverly Ann Clay Rose, and Gold and Great Rose", Plus, other favorites like singing in the rain if anymore is interested in anymore of these varieties of this collection". I managed to get the "Beverly Ann Clay Rose, and Gold and Great Rose" as a grafted. Because the own roots are already sold out within a few minute. Good griefs. I did not realize that rose shopping online was going to be this overly competitive. I saw these roses from that one lady show of the Rose geek I think a while ago. I had been keeping me eyes wide open out for these two for a while now. LOL. Just do go overboard with the shopaholic rose addictions. Good lucky to everyone.

Carol, we have no water restrictions, and never have had any. We have a world class statewide irrigation system, and I can water every day if I want, though we use city water rather than the irrigation water the farmers use. In fact, I water a lot, running the drip system for an hour at a time and that includes the little sprinklers, too. This part of the state was settled because the irrigation water enticed a whole lot farmers to come out West. The northern part of Idaho had an economy based on mining precious metals, particularly silver. There was some silver mining in southern Idaho, too, and we aren't that far from a well known ghost town, hard to get to because of bad roads, though. Guess its name. Silver City.... That's interesting about all the attention your roses attract. People here in Hidden Springs don't do much gardening, having mostly landscaping and lots of the same old shrubs. That's too bad about your poor soil. I'm sure the sellers didn't mention that to you when you bought your house. Were you gardening then? Ben, no, I don't think I have a copy of that magazine. I did at one time, though. All the family memorabilia I have is packed away in the basement storage, and I haven't seen any of this stuff in years. My stepdad did water his flower beds the farmers' way, though. He made small ditches between rows of plants and ran irrigation water down the ditches. The plants quickly grew and covered up the ditches and you couldn't tell he used this method. His huge lawn was watered with overhead sprinklers that used well water. I think Dianne uses the ditches method because Elaine said her roses looked like a rose farm. But, as I said, I need to see her place....I have had my son in law use a reciprocating saw on some of my roses' huge old canes. This year there are several roses that have canes that need sawing off. Ugh. Diane