I love the “seasons” leading up to the daylily explosion! First the daffodils, then the iris and then the roses! Yours are lovely!! And how exciting to have fruit! I have never seen a nectarine tree. Do you have to spray for the fungus and bugs?

Those roses are beautiful, Nancy. Does Therese Bugnet. have a scent. It is a lovely full bloom. How exciting to have fruit trees that are going to give you a bounty!. This is such a fun time of year.

kay

Beautiful roses, Nancy. Wonder why so spellcheck seems to want make certain words into possessive names. I have to pressure it not to write Rose's. Hard frost here apparently did not kill fruit either.

Lovely roses, Nancy! Seeing all the photos on here of roses makes me wish I had some, but I couldn't deal with the way they drew Japanese beetles and Blackspot here.

Debra

Lilykate, yes we should spray for fungus and bugs but never seem to get the job done. Anytime Bob has time to do it, it's windy or raining. Maybe when he's retired we can take better care of the trees. On top of the worms in the fruit, we have problems with the Japenese beetles and the June bugs eating the fruit. They only attack when the fruit is ripening and fragrant. Fruit that ripens once those bugs die down will be ok.

Kay, Therese Bugnet is indeed fragrant. Bob rarely grows an old rose that isn't. I love the smell of roses on the air. (Interestingly enough, I can smell roses, viburnum, lilacs, and many more on the air, but I can't smell a daylily even when I stick my nose right in the flower.)

Debra, we just let our old roses grow wild in out of the way places (our garden is big enough for that). The flowers on Hansa and Therese Bugnet will be gone before the Japanese beetles arrive and these two are also immune to blackspot. These two are hybrid rugosa roses which as a class are immune to blackspot.

As far as a search for more scapes, I found some. Kiss of Paradise has six scapes showing (and not just way down in the leaves). Lava Flow has a scape. I guess it will beat Buddy's Betsy this year, but Kiss of Paradise will beat them both. We found at least 6 more seedling (first years) with scapes. One is an offspring of Buddy's Betsy, which is always early here, and 5 are offspring of Stoke the Fire, which also has been early here. A year ago Bob purchased a seedling with a dark scape. It too has a scape. I need to get a picture of it. The scape is quite dark, especially at the top.

Exciting times are on the way!

Nancy