By the way, I ordered four new roses for my garden this year -- Buff Beauty (to train through a bunch of pink-blooming shrubby Royal Bonicas), a Graham Thomas and Gertrude Jekyll each to complement another rose of the same type, and a Mayflower standard.
The last three are all David Austins. Mayflower is a gorgeous soft pink, and its claim to fame is that it's supposedly "completely resistant to blackspot, powdery mildew and rust." We'll see.
For now, I dig and prepare my earth.
Posted by rich at February 2, 2004 9:53 PM