I'm so sorry about your RRD, Marina. I have Crown Princess Magareta and the young leaves don't look red like that. Last month I killed an Easy Elegance Rose infected with RRD, it had basal shoots that extremely thorny, with leaves red and curly like your pictures. It got infected at Home Depot since last year, but I didn't know until now. From what I read, I can't plant anything in that spot for 2 years. I disposed the plant and soil, sterilized my shovel & clipper with alcohol, and sprayed the remaining area with Windex (its alkalinity kills ants too). So far all my 42+ roses are safe. Good luck to your rose garden, I love the gorgeous pics. you posted in HMF and Rose Gallery.

I have Rose Masterpiece and it is a very pretty daylily with large blooms. It is very early here, almost beating out Happy Returns. South Seas was new for me this year and was placed in full sun. It has a lovely color, but it did fade by about 1/2 by late afternoon. I'd say PM shade would probably suite it better in an intense sun climate such as my own......Maryl

I have been fighting a few batches of amphids on the plants on the right tray of plants that are also having the tip problems so someone on thehotpepper suggested that the top leaf problem was a bug problem so that solves that. been using a soap water oil spray but have Azamax on the way. I just barely watered the plants yesterday and without really thinking i used the same nutrients i use in my hydro setup but i might of got the ratio a just a tad strong so a couple hours ago watered them with plain filtered water (32 ppm) to flush some of the nutes out. Light is 2, 4ft T8's, temps are 79 degrees as the high, and 75 degrees as the low, the humidity is 39% The light is about 18 inches away from plants so its far from too close. I also keep a fan blowing on them most of the day. When i gave them nutes yesterday i fed the lot of plants with 2 quarts of water with 1 tsp each of the General Hydroponics Micro/Grow/Bloom. Which now that im thinking about it they suggest that much per gallon. Not sure if it helped, but when attempting to flush them with 32 ppm with a 8.0 ph (filtered tap) i collected the run off water and got half as much back out the bottom and it read 280 ppm with a 6.5 ph.

Thanks for everyone's comments; I very much appreciate your time. Believe me when I say we are fully aware that we're not buying a new house and expected age problems. What makes this house so attractive to us is its VERY low price. We're in Oregon where housing prices make it a buyer's market. Our budget allows for a limited price ceiling. This house has all the room we need. Those two points, combined with the house's location in a nice (but not pretentious) 55+ golfing community with several other amenities, were really the selling points for us. The current owner, who has never lived in the house (it was his parents'), acquiesced to replacing the broken gas furnace with a new one and coming down about another $3K on the house's price. His Realtor convinced him that otherwise, he'd never sell the place. It's been on the market since October 2011, our offer is the only one he's received in all that time, and, if WE don't buy it, he said he'd take it off the market and just let it sit. When his Realtor (who works for the same company OURS does...so that's how we know this) informed him that not only the neighbors but the HOA would eventually be on his case for letting the house fall into disrepair and then he'd NEVER sell it, he finally agreed to replace the furnace. What strikes me as stupid on his part is that he'd rather let the house rot than at least make a little money on its sale. It's selling for MUCH less than it's worth, but still, anything's better than $0! ANYways...we have scheduled electricians and plumbers to come and take a look to give us quotes on the rest of the problems but we are hopeful that they won't be so dangerous and expensive to repair that their costs will be manageable. Luckily, we have a bit a money to deal with repairs and we have no intention of doing any remodeling, so those added costs won't be an issue. The house is small and modest but actually perfect for our needs and, frankly, we very much want to live in this community. While there are plenty of other houses available in this community, so far none of them in our price range...which equals houses of this general age of 50-years-old...have enough room for us AND have a fully-fenced back yard for our little dog. We run an online bookstore and I have two Etsy shops...we need the room the finished garage and bonus room this place has so we can have someplace to keep our inventory and I can have an office and craft studio. As you probably all know, no house is perfect. We have prepared ourselves to take the bad with the good. But we ARE being realistic. If it turns out that the repairs will be costly because they'll be necessary to fix truly dangerous problems, then we WILL have to keep looking. We take solace in knowing that our building inspector came highly recommended and he is respected in his field for his knowledge and honesty. We just hope we find contractors who are as well. Thanks again for your comments! ...