I think you will love ORANGES FOR CHRISTMAS. I know I do. CINNAMON ROLLS is really nice too. My SO BLUE WITHOUT TERESA hasn't bloomed but the picture looked gorgeous.

As far as you staying off the Lily Auction, just wait until the cold weather comes around and your stuck inside bored with nothing to do. It will be really hard to stay off the Lily Auction then. We will see if we can both stay off, ha! I tossed a bunch of daylilies last week but I am still out of room :-((

I am sure your rew rose garden will be really pretty. Are you putting your new bench in that area?

Its hard to have a big enough pond no matter how big you make it. But from the size of your fish, they really do need a much bigger home.

How big is the pond now? And how big are you going to enlarge it to? Or haven't you decided? I would make mine 3 times the size it is now if I could but of course its not possible.

After I plant all of the daylilies I have ordered, I really do need to stay off of the auction. I have gotten rid of quite a few daylilies, and I have several more that are marked to go.

I won a lily Phil Korth had on the auction, but it was one of Karol's, not his.

The pond will be about four times the size it is now. The current pond will actually be about triple the size it is, and it will connect to a channel that is about seven feet long and three feet deep to another pond a little bigger (and definitely deeper) that the current pond. The heat has been the hold up. You can only stand to be out for a little while in the heat. I will probably work on it a little while tomorrow.

Hopefully the rose garden will turn out well. I have roses coming from Heirloom, Vintage, and one, Reine des Violettes, from Antique Rose Emporium. It at least is a two gallon size. A couple of the Vintage ones are one gallon, but all of the others are bands.

I am looking forward to planting these roses. My others have done quite well this summer. Year before last, I planted two Wild Blue Yonder roses and I was originally not happpy with them. This year I love them. They are a pretty color, and the scent is sensational.

And speaking of scents, I was in the garden yesterday, and suddenly smelled a fantastic fragrance. It was the rose Lady Like. There were about ten blooms on it, and it carried to the path and drew me to it. I cut a couple for the desk vase. The fragrance is as important as the color and shape to me, so I am very happy with the roses.

The bench is intended for the butterfly garden, but it will be for both since the projected site is very close to the rose garden. Google "butterfly bench" and you will probably see it. It comes in several colors, is metal, and the butterfly part is the back of it. Of course it will be the same green as everything else in my garden.

kay