That's great Bob. What others did you buy and where?

That's a pretty one, Bob.

Karen

I ordered from Pine Knot Farms. The others are.
Anna's Red
Windcliff Strain
Amber Gem
Cotton Candy
Black Diamond
Apricot Blush
Cherry Blossom
Golden Sunrise
Jade Star

Also picked up Pink Frost and Spring Party off the clearance rack at Lowe's for $5 each.

You will Love Black Diamond! Nice group of hellebores!

I am hoping the one I get is close to a grey black color.

This was mine back in February.

Looks great.

I want what I does not exist.

I want a Honeysuckle that smells like the invasive Japanese Honeysuckle one that will bloom all summer.

I want a rose bush that smells as good and as hardy as the invasive Multiflora Rose.

I keep buying roses that die over the winter and honeysuckles that have so little fragrance or none at all. I find a non-fragrant Honeysuckle a climbing weed and dead roses every spring discouraging..

@Cinta...I've had to give up roses due to the dreaded Japanese Beetle but I loved my scented hardy old shrub roses like Morden Blush and Sir Thomas Lipton or Rose de Rescht and Eglantine...there are many old roses for your zone. Here's Morden Blush - too bad it isn't scratch and sniff!

I had Japanese beetles really bad last summer. I just mixed up some liquid sevin and sprayed it right ON the beetles. I didnt spray the whole area. The beetles died right there on the plant. I tried to spray mostly the leaves where they were and not get it on the blossoms. I didn't really notice anything else much that died in the area, just the beetles. They were dead within a few mins. I just went out about once a day and did that. Just kept the bottle in a handy place.

Catherine, Thank you. I have tried them all. Even Buck. Our winters are strange. Some people think that a zone 6 is higher than a zone 5 but for some plants we may as well be a zone 2. I explained on another forum that our winters are not plant friendly for many plants. When you get extreme flooding rains for a few weeks and suddenly get freezing rain followed by snow. That may last a few weeks before you get Spring temps for a few weeks then repeat the rain, freezing rain, snow.

That many freeze thaw, water logged with plants in frozen blocks ice of many plants especially roses and Heucheras just cannot survive that type of weather. If we luck out and get winter and keep winter things survive but if we get our normal winter "Forget bout IT"

Cinta, I get it. If we don't have decent snow cover, the same thing happens. So even though it is much colder here, the snow insulates and protects the plants. This last winter we had very little snow and I lost a few things...mostly things with shallow root systems like dianthus and heucheras. Drat!

@Cinta....sounds like perfectly awful weather. You are right about snow cover - has made a difference this year

Thank you Catherine, Jeanie you feel my pain. I am like others always want to grow what you cannot. I have been able to keep some roses alive by planting them in styrofoam pots and covering them with leaves then plastic when we get those drowning rains. Then lifting the plastic when we go to cold and snow.

There are some winters I just did not feel like going out and cover and uncover and they would not make it. I have had killed a couple of knockout roses and I did not think those could die unless you burned them.

I have found I can grow the heucheras in pots and just lay them on their side and they come through our stupid changing weather. Nothing is worse than having Fall, Spring,, Winter all in one month.

You mean just like we did in the last three days? Hot and humid with thunderstorms to snow and frost in 72 hours or less?

The weather here has been rainy. I don't think I could take the bad winters!

foraygardengirl said:You mean just like we did in the last three days? Hot and humid with thunderstorms to snow and frost in 72 hours or less?

Yes imagine that October to March. The plants cannot take it.

The poor things probably just heave themselves right of the ground. Even with snow cover I go around every spring and replant all my heucheras.
Can you do a mulch with straw or similar?

I just found this interesting thread with great source info. I discovered Helenium last year and really think it will be my answer for more fall color in my garden. I am searching for Die Dye but have not had much luck. I hope to collect as many varieties as will do well in my zone 4 garden.

foraygardengirl said:The poor things probably just heave themselves right of the ground. Even with snow cover I go around every spring and replant all my heucheras.
Can you do a mulch with straw or similar?

I do not think heave is my problem it is the frozen block of ice they are in becuse of the. Rain and immediate freeze.