Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Oldies but goodies, 0 by violabird

violabird wrote:
Amen. And it's a shame that you don't hear of many these days, everyone seems to want the latest doubles and darkest pinks.

It would be fun to do a poll and find out how many still grow them. It would certainly be sad to lose some of them entirely--heck, they could go extict! I know I have a lot of golden oldies, just wish we could break our drought here in GA :(

I still have:
Butterfly
Charles Grimaldi
Cypress Gardens
Dr Seuss
Gypsy Queen
Island Girl
KBS
Pink Beauty
Rosabelle
Rosamond
Valley Misty Pink
Whiskers
to name a few...

I remember when Whiskers was quite the rage. My favorite old shot of her: