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I'll have to take pix tomorrow, but today, while I was weeding.. and weeding.. and weeding.. and weeding.. holy crap was I weeding and I gotta weed some more! I saw some buds on my Charles de Mills! My first rose of the season! Finally, a bloom!! Yay!! They're not open, not for at least another.. 5-7 days, but I will *finally* have a rose blooming! My two old lilacs have a grand total of approx. 20 spikes of blooms between the two. Now one lilac is approx. 12ft tall and about 6-7 ft wide, the other is probably 8' around and about 5ft tall. You'd think they'd be covered. Mount Baker has 3 stalks of blooms, only 1 Charles Joly has 1 stalk of blooms, Primrose has 2, Wonderblue has 1 stalk... bleh. So few blooms on the lilacs this year. However, I *may* have a bumper crop of irises! I have lots & lots of stalks with them.. can't wait to see them start to open. The phlox is going to town.. especially the new stuff I bought from Santa Rosa gardens last year I lost a lot of agastache all over the place, which is odd 'cuz it's usually very hardy. But, the one thing that I am COMPLETELY shocked about is that my most "delicate" rose (IMO) that I have.. Princess de Monaco. She came back! She's about 8" tall right now and is growing like a weed! I think she's a zone 8 rose, too! But I *really* buried her deep and put almost 1/3 of a bag of mulch on her for the winter to make sure that she made it. And she did!!