Kitty

That new circular bed looks so promising, I hope you’ll share pics of all the new roses as they bloom. Very smart of you to add all that annual color to it.

Carol

Thanks for the new thread! What a beautiful summer you are having, all the roses are stunning and I’m jealous you can grow delphiniums!

Jim

Thanks for sharing the garden progress, the squirrel with his own solar light is my favorite.

Trish

I have heard Sydney is like San Francisco, cool in the summer. I escaped there for a few days, it was a wonderful seaside getaway.

Seaside,

So great to see you posting, I had been wondering about you.

Diane

I used your Orange Julius name on Tom. He told me that Sam McGredy used to bargain rose names for stuff he wanted…hence the varieties Typhoo Tea and Benson and Hedges. I told him he should have bargained for some Orange Julius or Sunny Delight, just so Double Easy could get a better name!

Bart,

Like you and so many others around the world, we been having an extremely hot summer, too, so far over a dozen days over 100F, the hottest at 108. I don’t think I could do it without easy access to plenty of water. I have been giving my plants very generous water, and that along with our cool nights they still bloom very well, but most flowers fry if not picked.

This is my latest saved bouquet, Abe, Evelyn, Juliet, Chantilly Cream

And this is my most heat resistant oddity, All Four Cherry Blossom: It has withstood over 10 days of 100+ and still looks decent!