LOVING TOUCH won the Award of Excellence from the ARS back in the 1980's and was really about the only apricot mini around that time that people could exhibit. That's why Jim Sproul got so excited when he saw MICHEL CHOLET bloom and asked if he could send it to the rose trials for me. And MC does have a little more substance to the petals and a little more color than LOVING TOUCH, which always had loose, floppy petals for me. But this year LT looks absolutely wonderful -- that's what made me go looking for my camera yesterday.
