Thank you everyone. Tequila sometimes shows more yellow, but the color shown is normal. For the most part these roses are all good bloomers, I would say that Belinda's Dream blooms the most. Angel Face is new this year, but looks very promising so far. It, Orchid Romance, Sunsprite and Sheila's Perfume are very fragrant. I also have Poseidon, it had a hard time getting started and only bloomed late in the season, didn't get a good picture. The bush is looking healthy, so hopefully it will survive the winter and take off next year. Kate, I hope Love Song does really good for you, it is truly a lovely rose. Jasmine, I hope JC continues to do good for you too, they are both great roses. Those two and OLOG are gorgeous in full bloom, they look great in the landscape. Thanks for mentioning some of your favorites, I love learning all I can about good roses.

Nev, I remember reading your wise words a few years ago when I first got into broms. From you I learned to not be in a rush to throw them away. For that reason, I developed a "Sick Bay". Well, they're not really sick - let's just say they're very, very tired. :) It's a spot where I stick broms that are looking ragged, torn, wasted, dead or ugly. I don't want visitors to think that's how I grow them (!) ... but I'm waaaaay too frugal to toss them just yet. I tuck 'em away over in Sick Bay where I hope to wring one or two more pups out of them. Kinda sadistic, right? (evil laugh) But it usually works! I've pulled numerous pups off of both of the broms in the photos above. That big purple one has give me four nice pups already... it's the one you helped me with here. Carol

This was the most insane WIND day I've ever know here in Denver (Thornton), and I've lived here since 1964! I'm used to gusts up to about 50 mph, but this was WAY beyond that! It lasted until sometime between 7:00 and 8:00 when it started to get better. The middle of the afternoon NOAA was showing SUSTAINED wind up here of 51 mph, and gusts to 64 mph! I was guessing I had gusts up to 70 mph, and then I heard on the weather that Broomfield (straight west of me) had gusts up to 84 mph, so now I'm wondering if what I got here was even over 70 mph! I was out digging up iris for the swap--when I went out it was 72º and the winds were "coming and going." After about an hour it got really bad, but I had to finish what I was working on! At times the wind sounded like I was just a couple feet away from a speeding freight train! The NOISE was incredible! Then the wind shifted to the northwest and got even worse--and it started to get COLD! I kept hearing things "snapping and cracking" and the cottonwood trees behind me started to Snap, Crackle, and Pop! Two of the worst ones had been taken down in the last few years, but the three remaining were "loosing branches" left and right! I MAY have mentioned a time or two around here how much I "dislike" cottonwood trees!!! A couple times I almost blew away myself! If the wind had been out of the east, Max, I think I just might have wound up blowing past YOU! I was getting really scared a tree was gonna blow down on my head, so I finished what I was doing as fast as I could and came back in! Since everything was blowing away, everywhere, I brought in all my plant stuff off of the deck, and brought in the Iris to put them in pots inside. A few minutes later I looked out of the slider just in time to see a couple flats of the plants I had potted up for the swap start blowing away! Opened the door to go out and "rescue" them, and as soon as I got the door open about a foot, ALL the "debris" from the deck blew straight into my face--and into the house! I have a couple loose pieces of carpet on the deck--they were weighted down with bricks!--and they all blew toward me and halfway into the door--the bricks went every-which-way! One flat--luckily it was just stuff left over from last year, most of which I didn't think was gonna make it anyway!--blew completely away, so I was out trying to "collect" all the styrofoam cups and pots from under the deck--freezing by then--and still listening to the "snapping and cracking!" The actual swap plants only blew "halfway" over, and I got them settled back down, patted the plants back into place, and put bricks on top of them! I had some birdseed in a tub on the deck, and THAT was EVERYWHERE--including in my eyes and mouth! Just as I was starting to get that mess cleaned up I glanced across the yard and saw "half" of the neighbor's cottonwood in my yard! I was NOT imagining the Cracking Sounds! The limb is at least 4" in diameter, 12" circumference, and it was "hanging" on the fence and juniper tree!!! I naively went over to "push" it back into the neighbor's yard, but the "heavy end" had slipped past the fence and crashed into the perennial bed, so I was pushing the "wrong direction" and it didn't take long to figure out that what I was trying to do was impossible, so I managed to pull if off of the fence and onto the grass! This is a part of one of the biggest limbs on the tree--the whole thing came down but the "main part," the BIGGEST part was heavy enough to fall straight down into the neighbor's yard! Laying sideways where it is now it's sticking up at least 10-12'!!! It's sticking above the top of the privacy fence a good 5-6'--RIGHT next to the fence! The diameter where this thing broke off of the tree must be at least 8"! Like I said, MAJOR limb! WHY do people keep cottonwood trees??!?? By the time I got back inside to stay it was 55º out--and I was frozen stiff! Didn't get warm again until several hours later when I took a HOT shower! Max, when the wind shifted to the NW your chickens stopped blowing by! I figure they were going by Colorado Springs or Pueblo after the wind shifted!!! Sorry I didn't know Amelia's name when she blew by or I would have wished her Good Luck! Sorry about your Chicken Losses today! ;-) I hope everybody else was safe today, and that nobody had any serious damage, Skybird

They sure look happy! Thanks for sharing:)