As you may have noticed, we've been sprucing up the site a bit. Among other things, we've added new ways to upload photos and email notifications of post replies. We are still cleaning out cobwebs and weeding some areas of the site, but we are also working on some bigger projects like a better search engine (yay!) and a mobile app. We'd also like to get some feedback from you. What enhancements or additions would you like to see? What do you love? What do you hate? Think big and small!

We can't promise the moon, but please know that we will read and consider every one of your ideas and suggestions. We appreciate your loyalty and dedication to our site and we know how important your community is to you. Help us make it even better!

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Tamara Amey
GardenWeb Community Manager

Thank you. I love Garden Web!

Ingrid

You asked and we listened. Today we are very excited to be debuting our newest feature -- post editing! To use this feature, go back to the post you wish to correct and you'll find the link under the 'My Clippings' links on the right side of the page.

I want to give a special shout out to all the testers who tried to break the editing tool. ;) Your feedback was insightful and invaluable. Thank you!

You may have also noticed that we adjusted the login cookie awhile back so that you should not have to login repeatedly.

Stay tuned -- we have more cool things in the works!

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Best regards,
Tamara

I'll be thinking about your question. Thanks for asking.

Sherry

I have two requests.
A. I would love a better filter for Tea roses. As you may know there are two different rose classes that have similar names
1. Tea
This is a class of everblooming roses that originated in China c. 1000 years ago from two wild Chinese rose species,Rosa chinensis and Rosa gigantea. Because those wild roses never had to adapt to a cold climate, being native to warm part of China, Tea roses cannot be grown in cold climate gardens, but there is no better class of rose for frequent bloom and fragrance, for a warm climate garden, than a Tea class rosebush.
There are more than 200 different types of Tea roses available in the United States and I'd love to be able to access more information about this splendid rose class. The bushes of a Tea rose are very attractive plants in the landscape because they have evergreen foliage and often, lots of it.
Tea rose blossoms are very special because their petals have such a thin 'substance', Tea roses have been described as showing an "exquisite delicacy' of bloom style by one author.

2. Hybrid Tea. A modern class of rose that was introduced in 1867. Originally a Hybrid Tea rose was created by crossbreeding a rose from the Hybrid Perpetual class, with a rose from the Tea class. More modern Hybrid Tea rosebushes, including many of those introduced after 1960, can be well more than 200 generations distant from any Tea rose ancestor.
Nearly every part of a plant in the Tea class is different from a Hybrid Tea; The shape and size of the plant itself, the appearance of each leaflet, the growth habit, the ability to withstand cold, or not, floriferousness, even the different types of fragrance, are very different in rosebushes from the class of Tea from cultivars from the class of Hybrid Teas.

Only a handful of Hybrid Tea rosebushes resemble a Tea rosebush, and those few were introduced before c.1920 and had a Tea parent or grandparent.

When I do a search for Tea roses on Gardenweb I am surprised that hundreds of postings do not come up, because I have seen so many Tea rose postings over the years.
B. My second request; One valuable query asked for gardeners to list their favorite Tea roses and than the person made a list of the Teas with the most votes, the winner was 'Mrs.B.R. Cant' and I would love to have the entire list, can you find it for me?
I would be ever so grateful.

Thank you,

Luxrosa
P.S. I love, adore, admire, praise,
and most of all
am grateful for;
Gardenweb.