Sue came up here last week and we went shopping at a few nurseries. She brought her darling doggies this time, so we all had fun.

She arrived with 13 roses that she had scouted out for me down in the South Bay Area.

Bronze Sunset
Frivolous Pink
Front Page
Donna Darlin'
Editor Tommy Cairns
Frederic Mistral
Girl's Night Out
Mother of Pearl
Sweet Promise
Traviata
Paris d'Yves St. Laurent
Bronze Masterpiece
Arizona

The top 4 are available only at Orchard Supply Hardware, as far as I know. Sue bought all of these roses at OSH and at Summer Winds. Some were bare root in bags and some were planted in containers, and all 13 came to less than $200. Sweet!

We then found more roses at Lowe's and Home Depot, ranging from $4 to $14 each.

Patchwork
Dick Clark
New Year
Pinata
Hopie Girl
Tyler
Cherish

Only 4 of the 20 are duplicates, so 16 of them are brand new to my garden, bringing the total number on my HMF list up to 1440, which is very exciting and kind of scary. I'm not even going to try to guess the real number, which would include all of the unnamed roses and duplicates. Apropos of that, I just got 8 more Belinda's Dream plants in the mail.

wow.

Editor Tommy Cairns http://www.helpmefind.com/gard...
Front Page http://www.helpmefind.com/rose...
Donna Darlin http://www.helpmefind.com/rose...
Fredric Mistrel http://www.helpmefind.com/rose...
Girl's Night Out http://www.helpmefind.com/rose... (love this one!)
Mother of Pearl http://www.helpmefind.com/rose... (of course Sue would love this one!)
Sweet Promise http://www.helpmefind.com/rose... (gorgeous!)
Triviata http://www.helpmefind.com/rose... (hope it's the "newer" one and not the 1967 one)
Paris d'Yves St. Laurent http://www.helpmefind.com/rose...
Hopie Girl http://www.helpmefind.com/rose... (this one looks amazing)

Those are the ones I had to look up. Great Rose Hunting!! Awesome! In fact, I was just lamenting to my DH 2 nights ago that you & Sue would be rose shopping right about now.. and I have to wait another 5 more months. Bleh. You're so lucky!!!!!!

It is the new Traviata because I already had the older one.

This is the older one. I love it.

http://cubits.org/roses/db/ros...

I went to Lowe's again and bought two more roses: Shreveport and French Perfume. They were only $4 each. I recently bought a small own-root Shreveport from Charlene, but this is a nice grafted one with huge canes. I already have French Perfume too, but it's so gorgeous that one more won't kill me. And who says no to a $4 rose?

Wyah!!!!!!!!!!!!! no fair!!!!!! Gonna cry now....

Actually, I lied. It wasn't French Perfume, it was Broadway, but those two roses are almost interchangeable in my mind.

matters not, still beautiful. Pix?

Broadway:





French Perfume:

OMG. OMG OMG OMG. *sigh* That just helped lift a little bit of the cold cloud off my soul. This is why I love you guys so much.. do so much to cheer up a poor frozen person here.

Rest of Today
Partly sunny. Highs around 14.

Tonight
Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows 3 below to 7 below zero. Wind chill readings 10 below to 20 below zero after midnight.

Tuesday
Mostly sunny. Highs 18 to 24.

Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy. Lows 2 to 8.

Now you've done your part to try to freeze us all! Brrrr!

right now it's 1.9 degs w/a windchill of -9. And it's going to get much more colder tonight as there's not a cloud in the sky to keep in what little residual heat we got. BRRRR!