When is the cemetary sale, Jeri? Can someone post Grandmother's Hat? I don't think it is readily available in this area's nurseries. I do have Fame in the front yard--the perfect heat loving rose! And an OLG in the back yard. My property is too small for 2 of a kind roses. I am going to also check out Belinda's Dream. I will go to Capital Nursery as soon as bloom time is upon us--very soon I hope. Thanks for all the great ideas, I am looking into them all. Kathy

yeah- what brenda said, basically. i have a wooden planter on my porch that i can squeeze 6 or 8 3 gallon pots in side by side and keep the caladiums in those. They go in for summer, and i have a separate set that i plant with pansies or lettuces, etc that i use for winter. So mine aren't going in the ground, but there's no reason why you couldn't sink pots in the ground or use decorative ones and leave them above ground. i do plant a few in the ground each year, but am not as good at preserving those bulbs. Oh, i dig them, they just never make it into a bag with some barely moist peat and where they are happy in the basement, so i usually kill them with neglect. If it's not easy, i'm not likely to succeed with it. I've tried just throwing them on the surface of the other pots, but the cold gets them that way. The peat or sawdust insulates them just a little- enough. The ones in the pots almost always come back bigger & better each year.

Try anything in white or soft yellow. There's some nice marigolds available in a cream color. Blues & purples will help to "cool off" the hot shades like in Ageratums (aka floss flower). Moonbeam coreopsis would be a nice companion. It's a delicate looking light yellow daisy shaped flower with ferny folage. All of these would look good with the other colors you already have. Let us know what you do! Show us some pics! Tarheelgardener

I suggest Comtesse Emmeline de Guigne: I saw it growing at Morcom Park in Oakland, California and it was a gorgeous pink Tea with starry blossoms with a satiny sheen. Sometimes it shows salmon in the inner petals along with the pink. I admired it everytime I went there that summer. The next spring I was surprised to see it had been moved, although its replacement was a very pretty pure peach colored Tea rose, I should have looked closer at the foliage et cet. I read Gregs description of Comtesse Emmemline de Guigne in the Vintage Gardens Book of Roses and he described how it changes from pink to peach depending on conditions, so it had been there all the time masquerading under a different color. At Morcom Parks Amphitheatre of Roses they keep it at c. 4 feet tall by slightly wider, and it seems perfectly happy. Rogue Valley sells it. For years I was underwhelmed by my Duchess de Brabant, I thought it was a bit plain, until my neighbor said look how many roses there are on that plant! It gave me a new appreciation for it. . Mrs. Dudley Cross is sublime, and those smooth stems are a relief to me as I walk down my sidewalk as I tend to get caught on nearly every rosebush I pass by. By the way Souvenir de la Malmaison is fully half a Tea rose by parentage, which is why it re-blooms so rapidly and is florifeorus. Mlle. Cecille Brunner is classed as a Polyantha, yet is fully half a Tea by breeding. Her flowers are pink, petite and perfectly Tea shaped, and the scent is divine. Pretty foliage too. Mine has stayed at c. 4 feet tall for years. Good luck, let us know what you choose. Lux.