OK i just looked up the 2 gallon Peach Swirls. They were $32.98. What a bargain, especially nowdays. If you search on HD's website for Vigro Roses, you will find them. They have added a few new varieties since I ordered these. So they may end up with a good selection.

Those sure do look nice!

Sultry,

I've gotten great quality roses from Home Depot Online. I go to Home Depot first to see if they sell the rose I am after. They are pretty much right there with the newest introductions, at remarkably low prices, and free shipping.

I hope all your new roses exceed your expectations. I particularly like Tangerine Skies. Its flower form and color really appeal to me.

Can you post a photo of your Gazebo when its completed? Would like to see what style and size it is.

Moses.

I was surprised to read HD has 3 gallon TS for sale, shipped to NJ, so I went to their website.

Delivery in 3 days (it’s 9:45P here now); ”4,985 available”.

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I wonder who their grower is.

Rifis,

I hope they pick the biggest, most vigorous bush of the 4985 to send to you! My 3 gal. Brindabella Purple Prince was huge, lots of buds. It got planted today. The weight of the box it came in had to be 8-9 lbs., heavy from a good drink before they boxed it up. I cannot imagine the freight charge the grower had to pay USPS, and it came free shipping to me.

Moses.

I also ordered a few roses from Home depot : Pacific blue and reminiscent Coral .

I’ve been very pleased, too - I’ve received 3 roses and 1 hydrangea and they’ve all been large and looked excellent upon arrival.

Thank you, Moses, for your good wishes, but I am not ordering one. I looked just to look. I have enough problems figuring out what will become of my collection of now containerized Raspberry Cupcake roses. https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6560556/this-rose-seller-did-the-right-thing

There's room in the ground for maybe 1 or 2 tops, if I move some daylillies. Not that I wouldn’t like another TS; there’s no room.

Sultry, what a hot deal for some really nice big roses .. Free shipping, the icing on the cake

I used to grow daylilies years ago, Rifis. What bothered me about them was the eyesore of their foliage after the blooming period was finished. So many varieties have rot genes, like Oriental poppies, after they're done blooming.....foliage rotting away. A clump just sitting there of ratty-looking, weedy, grassy-looking foliage for the rest of the summer put me off on them. A big clump of ugliness right among other lavishly blooming perennials, is not for my small garden, where every plant has to count.

And then, the flower only lasting a day, with half bloomed out scapes looking like goats got to them, flowers facing any which way, mostly away, etc.,......why bother with them. There are so many other perennials that have good looks before, during, and after their bloom cycles. My love affair with daylilies was short lived!

Moses.

Moses, I only grow the orginal daylies. They call them ditch lilies now. They are the orginal orange and look good all season.

Moses, I have only a couple of daylilies and I can see your point. I do cut the ratty foliage back after bloom and new foliage grows back in and looks better. But I am curious since I too have a small garden and have to make each plant count, what plants would you feel replace a daylily with more all season performance?

Prairiemoon,

Working on your request list. Hold tight, it's coming, ASAP! Some real winners on it, you'll see, IMHO!

Moses.

Your roses look lovely. Do you have any nematode issues with the roses in the ground? I had a few problems with some before they were damaged by the hurricanes.

garden gal, Thank you, sorry I didnt see your post earlier. I am in the NW FL Panhandle kinda between S AL and Panama City Beach zone 8b, now a 9a (supposedly). .It is a little hilly here. We have a loam type soil from all the hardwood trees that lose leaves over the years. We also are on an old horse farm so years of horse manure composted into the soil. A few feet deep here, there is solid orange Clay! My nematodes are not that bad here. I previously lived near Jax and it was very sandy there. I had bad nematodes there. I think I could get by with more own root roses here but have several on Doc Huey or Fortuniana rootstock. Mostly only my antique or old garden roses are own root and they do well.

If you have bad nematodes, you should probably try fortuniana roostock if you can find it. There are a few online nurseries that carry roses grafted onto it.

Lowes also used to carry fortuniana rootstock roses. I believe they were sold in blue pots. Since my area is different now, I dont know if that is still the case. I used to buy roses at some nurseries that carried fortuniana roostock grafted roses that they got from Nelsons Southern Roses. I got a few Abraham Darby (David Austin Varieties) that way. They did well in the sandy soil.

There is another online nursery called kandmroses that specializes in fortuniana grafted roses. They usually have a good selection too.

I hope this helps!

Moses and everyone, thank you all these roses are still doing well. I ordered another Lavender Crush too. I am very happy with all of them. Yes! I will post photos when we get the gazebo done Iol. I have 2 metal ones that I brought from our old property. I am now thinking that we should maybe build the new one from wood and sink the posts deep in concrete, so it will be stronger since we can get hurricane and tornado winds here. There is an old concrete round slab already in place. The chickens found it digging in the dirt. We dug down with a shovel and then used a power washer and found an old Silo (I think) foundation/concrete pad. So that will be perfect for a gazebo foundation. Maybe I can put a fountain and some benches on it too. This has been a very miserable hot & rainy summer. Just awful and we haven't done much outside except feed/water animals and take care of all the plants we have. Hopefully fall comes soon and we can gets some things done.

sultry: aren’t miserable hot and rainy and Lavender Crush just asking for trouble?

Or is it just too hot for that?

Prairiemoon,

Plum forgot about my list of top perennials. Here goes:

1. Malva moschata 'Alba' - a myriad of small, single, white blooms from early summer until autumn. ~30" X 20", nicely proportioned plant, pretty firm in the ground, no staking needed. Zone 5, no sweat. Can be a reliable reseeder, which comes in handy because this is a short lived perennial. Transplant only young seedlings growing as volunteers because older plants, except container grown ones, transplant poorly because of sensitive tap roots. 3+ months of continuous bloom.

2. Malva alcea fastigiata - all the same attributes as M. moschata 'Alba', but tall and columnar in growth habit. 4' X 2', pale to medium pink blooms in abundance from early summer to autumn. Zone 5, ditto as above. Same traits regarding rewarding volunteers, short lived 2 yrs., maybe 3. Blooms wonderfully the first year from an early sowing inside the house.

3. Heliopsis 'Summer Sun'. Other cultivars are also v. good. Yellow daisies, 2.25" in abundance from early summer to autumn. Dead head spent blooms to keep them coming. 36" X 28". Very hardy. Self supporting.

4. Salvia 'May Night,' other cultivars bred from S. 'May Night,' very good, too. 16" X 12", long bloom season, from mid spring to autumn. One of the few perennials that make fresh basal break s throughout the blooming season. Must be dead headed to encourage lateral spikes as well as basals.

5. Coreopsis verticillata'Moonbeam'. an older variety, but hard to beat. 14" X 14". Pale yellow 1" single daisies cover the plant in an informal, pleasantly relaxed growth habit. Some dead heading will help the long bloom period, from early summer to autumn, perform at its best. Quickly becomes a dense patch that needs division almost every other year, but who's complaining. Some newer cultivars may equal C. v. 'Moonbeam', but not likely surpass it.

6. Coreopsis v. 'Zagreb', this cultivar is rigid in growth habit, short, 12" X 8",_and rich yellow in bloom color. A nice complement to C. v. 'Moonbeam.'

7. Prunella 'Loveliness', 'Pink Loveliness,' and 'White Loveliness (hard to find),' is one stellar perennial often overlooked, but for a short, ~12" X 12+" clumping, heavy flowering perennial, it's hard to resist its continuous supply of blooms from early summer until autumn. Spent spikes must be dead headed to keep it pumping blooms. The newer varieties 'Bella Blue,' and 'Freelander,' are even more heavy flower ing than the 'Loveliness,' series.

8. Achillea ptarmica, 'The Pearl,' 18" X 12" is a joy to grow. Its double, pompom-like 3/8"-1/2" blooms are produced in abundance from early summer to autumn. A dwarf form, Achillea ptarmica, 'Ballerina,' which reaches 10" X 8", duplicates,,'The Pearl,' in every way, but diminutively.

9. Echinacea 'Magnus,' or 'Ovation,' are older varieties of Echinacea in the original genus, mauve, to toned-down fuchsia color, but wider, horizontally held petals.

10. Phlox paniculata 'David.'. What a great perennial, huge panicles of pure white flowers on 36" stiff stems that are awesome to view. Nothing says summertime better than Phlox. Blooming starts in late June and continues until autumn. Don't forget the fragrance, too.

11. Hibiscus.

(to be continued if a response to this post ensues.......)

Moses.

rifis, if you meant Lavender Crush gets blackspot in heat & humidity...yes she sure can! Neither one of them have it right now though, which is amazing to me. I had Lavender Crush at our old farm and it did get black spot. It was from a Walmart body bag and I dont recall if it was grafted or not. I'm sure these 2 new ones will get bs too given time but I think they are still worth it. I don't spray at all, so others might have less disease if they do.