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Re: Wish List ( and questions)

Hi all,  nice to see some activity on the list.  I signed on a few weeks
ago and was beginning to think everyone was hibernating.  I live in the
Okanagan Valley, B.C.,  and picked the last  HT rose buds on the 20th.
Amber Queen still had full blossoms at that time.  Now, of course, we have
a foot of snow!

At 18:02 28/12/98 -0500, Patti  wrote:

>I would like to get a yellow rose this year.  I want one that is a
>clear, bright yellow..... a white >one too.  

Graham Thomas gets my vote,  for its fragrance,  altho there are more
brilliant yellows available.  Mine was rather unruly this year, over 6 ft.
tall, but covered with flowers all season.  

Margaret Merrill (sp?) is a beautiful white, and fragrant, too.  Pascali
and  Glamis Castle are two whites I'd like to have in my collection.

Roses I hope to find in '99:

The Polar Star
Euphrates
Fimbriata  (aka Phoebe's Frilled Pink, and/or Dianthiflora)
Alba Semi-plena
Alba Maxima
St. Patrick
Botzaris
F.J. Grootendorst
Kakwa
Nigel Hawthorne
Sally Holmes

 Does anyone out there know where I might find any of the above?  

My desire for roses which aren't likely to be found in local gardens leads
to another question, perhaps one of the most stupid you folks have read,
but I risk ridicule in my quest:

Bryce Courtenay  wrote a book called "The Power of One' in which he
mentions a rose called Imperial Sunset, (no description.)  In the sequel,
"Tandia", he mentions two roses:  Macreadie Sunset (yellow), and Francis
Eileste (a climbing white.)  Are these perchance actual roses, perhaps
known  in S. Africa or Australia?

I am  also interested in  unusual or rare blue flowers and have managed to
over-winter blue Corydalis and Mecanopsis.  (We had a couple of milder
winters, which helped.)  Does anyone know where I can obtain seeds for
Gentian Sage?
  
Thanks.
Linda
Kelowna, B.C.
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