A beautiful day yesterday, finally some sun! Went to Heirloom Roses (www.heirloomroses.com), near St. Paul, a little heaven of old fashioned roses. Sara and I looked, sniffed, admired, and wound our way around all the paths, arbors, tuteurs, and even an alle' of my favorite flowers. We ended up in the greenhouse, challenged to only pick a couple of the many different types and varieties of own-root roses. I was determined to find a moss rose, and at last, I have one, a white beauty named Alfred de Dalmais, originally cultivated in 1855 in France.