Now I will add something that is actually relevant to this thread. Here is one of my favorite hybrid tea roses. This one is called Midas Touch. It holds its color well even in the heat, and it always has lots of flowers. They last a long time too, and are great for cutting, although it tends to produce multiple buds at the end of each stem, so if you want a tall stem with a single bloom, you have to pinch back some of the buds while they're still small so that there's only one left on the stem. It is definitely my favorite yellow. The spring blooms are definitely the best, but it blooms again in late summer too. I've even had blooms on that rose as late as December. The other flower is what I call an African Daisy. I don't know what other names it may go by. It comes in a variety of colors, but this one and the steel blue one are my two favorites.
Edit:I found a picture of the steel blue African daisies I love so much, and i finally occurred to me what else we used to call them, which is Osteospermum. I haven't tried them here in Texas yet. In Oklahoma, they tended to languish a little in the hottest pert of the summer, but in the fall when the weather would start to cool off, they would just go crazy. It gets much hotter in Texas, so it's possible the heat in August may kill them, but maybe it won't, and maybe I'll get lots of blooms in the fall. I think I'll give them a shot in my garden this year and see what happens.
Last edited by JScott; 03-26-2020 at 11:24 AM..
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