You bet you can! I'd love it. Bring the geese and the ducks and the cats and whatever else you've got.

So much color at Zuzu's now!


And some individual beauties, names on the images.









The second one below is a beautiful intro from Burling Leong.

I just love seeing my garden through your eyes, Sue. Fabulous photos! Please add them to the database.

wow. I have like a total of.. 12? buds on all my roses that does not include Austrian Copper. AC should bloom sometime next week. It's loaded again. I *almost* have an open blossom on Theresa Bugnet.....

Such a delicious display of blooms. Thanks Sue!

wow, great pics, as usual

what kinda rose is Peppermint Delight? Just yesterday I went to a local rose sale and they had Scentimental. I learned that it doesn't want to be variagated in warm climates, so I passed on it. Wonder if Peppermint Delight would do better.

I WILL GROW PERSIAN LIGHT IN MY GARDEN. I'm totally in love w/ it, being that is yellow and red and those are DH's and my fave colors, he-yellow, me-red. I have a bed w/ various DLs and Lilies that are red/yellow or yellow/red and it is fabulous. Adding this rose to that area would make it beyond fabulous. Hard to imagine that Persian Light can grow to 4 ft yet the flowers are 2.5". Should make for an interesting looking shrub.

Honey Perfume is awesome, love the burnt yellow coloring.

Z, the iron umbrella trellis in which you're growing Happy is totally awesome. I would love to have one for my Red Cascade.

Voss - My Scentimental never was non-variegated with our oppressive heat last year.. But I know that Rock n Roll is supposed to be better. But, at the same time, from what I was told, almost all striped roses hate extreme heat. My Citrus Splash never was variegated & George Burns never showed the yellow, just red & white. Oranges & Lemons always goes more Oranges than Lemons when it gets that hot. However, my mini Pinstripe was always nicely variegated. But, at the same time, it got like 4-5 hours of shade, too.

didn't know that bit re: striped roses. would certainly explain why my O&L has only had puny orange blooms. I bought it b/c I saw it at the Tyler Mun Rose Garden in all its glory.

I had a R&R I got at WM and it died on me w/o warning. It was planted in full sun, and now that I think of it, the variegation was good. But a mute point, as no longer w/us.

Peppermint Delight is a climber, Nery, and I'm afraid it isn't available in commerce anymore. It's one of those roses I bought long ago from the J&P catalog. So many of them have disappeared, and for no good reason: This one has been living under a huge Lady Banks rose for at least 20 years and has survived in spite of that. I used to just see small clusters of its blooms way at the top of the Banksia rose, but this year I pruned the Banksia back because it was knocking over several arbors, and now the Peppermint Delight is going to town big-time.

Striped roses are always striped here, but maybe it's because of our cold nights. I think the climate here is perfect for roses -- hot days and cold nights. It does cause OGR's to mildew, but I avoid growing them whenever I can. Modern roses never suffer from mildew in my garden.

The umbrella trellis was a birthday gift from DrDon, whom you may remember from DG, several years ago. He made it and drove it up here from Temecula in a van.

Scentimental stays variegated here in the summer and we always are in the 100's on and off -- never lower than 90's for sure.

Scentimental is variegated here also and our nights stay pretty warm once it gets hot. Many times in summer the nights don't go below 90. those pics are beautiful. WIsh I had more striped roses.

Between Zuzu's flowers and Sue's photography, it's like looking at a professional nursery catalog!

Well you're not too shabby in either department yourself!

Mike - No, it's better than a professional nursery catalog as they're not "touched" or Photoshopped by any stretch of the imagination. What you see is what you get.. Love WYSIWYG.

EDIT: Leaving the credits on each of the pictures, I just copied them to make my own screensaver here at work. If I can't have purdy flowers, the least I can do is LOOK at them! And Win7 lets you create your own background that changes as often as you want, so mine now changes about once every 15 minutes with Zuzu's purdy flowers & Sue's awesome photography!

MIKE - You need to take some pics of yours too!! I wanna see!!! :D :D :D