Here in Portland,Oregon its is even worse to stop from collecting Pollen(i.e. Buds) because on my lunch walks I travel thru a Neighborhood mostly built in from 1900-1920’s and in the planting strips are many older HT’s. yesterday I discovered a mammoth Madame Caroline Testout growing in Partial shade topping out at seven feet with over a dozen blooms.In the older neighborhoods MCT is the a most common site, the others that never seem to die are Queen Elizabeth I have seen her grow to a eight foot bush and Tropicana grow into a six foot ball of unmistakable orange.
Brian