I don't think you can go wrong with any of Judy's cultivars. If you have concerns about hardiness because she is in NC, look at the parentage of one's you are considering. Many of the plants Judy introduces have "Goldner" genes. Al Goldner was a hybridizer in Michigan that hybridized for big bold blooms for the landscape community. Judy knew Al Goldner, before she migrated south, and many of her cultivars had their beginnings or at least their ancestors in Michigan.
For those who don't know it, here is Judys "gallery" -
http://www.picturetrail.com/Da...
TOWER POWER (Fall 09)
TOWER POWER is something totally different for hybridizers and gardeners alike. It's a huge 8" showy cream peach, yellow, and pink polychrome open form that is displayed on tall 42" scapes with wide 5 to 6 way branching and 29 buds. Strongly recurrent, it starts blooming early midseason and continues through late season. Exceptional plant habit comes from its pollen parent, AL'S PEACH TOWER, a line bred descendant of TET FRANCIS FAY. The pod parent is Webster's COSMIC RAY. Blooms always open without crowding and are extremely fragrant blooming right under your nose where you can smell them. Exceptional plant habit carries through to seedlings...it can improve the height and branching on round forms or improve the strength of scapes on more spidery forms equally well. The color is a clarifier. Difficult but not impossible as a pod parent; easy as a pollen parent. Semievergreen.
Unfortunately she's sold out, but watch maybe you can find it from another grower. In my zone 5 it set pods fairly easy last summer. In the parentage of Judy's "Molly Moonshine" (Davisson-J., 2011)
