the bustopher, the name sounds really familiar and i think you might have hit the nail! I bought all of my roses at the home depot, but i threw away all of the plant IDs and i only remembered a few. Voodoo does sound very familiar though. I think i'll make a visit to the home depot this month to check out the bare root rose selection, as they tend to carry the same varieties for a couple of years. maybe i can ID the ones i cant remember the names of.

Littlehelper - I side with Dora. You are lost, start thinking about purchashing a shelving unit with lights ;-)). And another one, and another one, call us when you pass the mark of 1500 plants... I loved your pink bloomed one with "feathering" or "veining" on the blossoms. A couple of suggestions. get yourself a tabletop tripod - I think it is $9.99 in Best Buy - and check if your camera has a macro option. Some lucky people do not have trembling hands... I do - so I use tripod, the second thing - do not use the camera flash - it bleaches the pic. It is so much better if you choose a time with a good natural light from outside. Second suggestion - I would chuck the plant that is sitting in a double ceramic pot. It has so many spots - it can be all water damage - or it can be virus. Which is not curable and can be contagious. Good Luck and Congratulations! Irina

I enjoyed the trip to Canada Blooms this year. I found the garden display much more to my taste. Basically that is I like things being more organic, less too modern. I got a few ideas from the trip. The market place was okay. I like to get my seeds from Florabunda and a few thompson seeds from Gardenscape. I missed Patrick Studio though. There was a time when the Market place was far more fuller. I would have rather wanted to see more vendors to see what's new in gardening. Or maybe, it's because I brought a young child with me and had to spend less time looking at the products. Whatever.. there were definitely less vendors around this year and I am speculating the rental costs has risen. Perhaps it's time the organizers begin to address this issue and start looking at another venue. Another thing that always irks me, why should I pay for that magazine that lists down the name of the vendors and the displays. Goodness. Shouldn't this come free? Last, I was wondering why can't the organizers hold an open air garden show right there in early summer - alla Chelsea. This can be done at Downsview - the site where the Pope visited. It's being developed into a park and so why not? --

It was 94 degrees here today and wickedly hot. Most of the daylilies looked really bad by 6 p.m. Only a few looked better than this morning. AMBER FINALE's blended colors look prettier after a long, scorching day UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS takes a while to open in the morinings, so I never get to photograph it then. It still looked nice tonight. KANSAS KITTEN held its color suprisingly well. A LITTLE FIRE SCARECROW fades out in high temps, but I like the look. Debra