Sue, I'm glad you posted a photo of WS 2000. Mine has just started to bloom, and I'm not real sure which canes are Huey and which are WS. It's that time of year where several red roses are suspect.
We got more rain, along with a 70 mph wind gust that took out a heathy huge cottonwood tree next to our pond. It fell onto another tree, taking out half of it, and then they landed on my iris bed. Sigh. That's 6 inches of rain in the last 3 days. Be careful what you wish for...
Roses, clematis, iris, peonies and alliums are all spectacular, even the shredded ones!
Lowes decided to have a "rain sale" and marked all trees half price, and everything else 25% off. I convinced the clerk that a Sunsprite tree rose is a tree, so it came home with me, along with Parfuma Dark Desire, Summer Romance, Lemon Fizz and Beverly. The 3 gallon parfumas were 7.50 or so. Our rose society will be selling some of these same roses from Chamblee next weekend. We may have lost customers to Lowes because the roses at Lowes are huge and healthy looking. The rain beat them up just a tiny bit, knocked the petals off, but they'll be fine.
Does Hortico send out any notice when they ship? I ordered 4 roses, and asked for them to be shipped last week, but nothing came, and I have not heard from them. The website says they will attempt to contact the customer if a rose is out of stock, but mine were all listed as in stock. The confirmation said sometimes roses really aren't in stock...but nothing else. I am crossing my fingers that they really have cleaned up their act.