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To: GodBlessUSA
I love roses. I had a lot of success with them in Colorado; less when I lived in Georgia due to pests. I haven't tried them here yet. With flowers, as with birds, I love a great variety and am particularly attracted to the more unusual colors and to those with a sweet fragrance, especially roses and irises. This one was a stunning neon orange and very fragrant:

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355 posted on 02/20/2005 6:27:41 AM PST by sweetliberty ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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To: sweetliberty
Thanks for the picture! That's a lovely rose! Is that a hybrid tea? It reminds me a bit of HotCocoa. I have a lot of varieties of roses with perennials and flowers for the birds too. I love them because of the continuous blooms. Iris' with roses must be gorgeous. I have been planting a lot of clematis with them the past year. For the most part, now with all the birds, I look for flowers and plants that benefit them.
362 posted on 02/20/2005 6:45:15 AM PST by GodBlessUSA (No, just because my user-name was on that thread-I'm not a troll. 4 years of posting and 1+lurking.)
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