On Sun, 25 May 2003 03:37:16 GMT, "Jeffrey J. Potoff"
wrote:



You forgot "fades terribly when left on the bush." I dug mine up and
gave it away this spring because I didn't want a cream colored rose
after two days.

You know what, Jeffrey? Mine never turn any shade of "cream" at all.
They stay yellow until they shatter or I deadhead. Granted, I cut
fully half the blooms this rose produces for the table--mine or
others.

Do you require of your roses a static color for a certain number of
days?

I find most of mine change from the minute they bud until the minute
they shatter.

This is one of the things I love about roses and other living
things--a certain dynamic quality. Anything more static and I might
just as well have artificial.





J.