July has arrived and I think that I’m just about ready to sit back and enjoy my garden for the next few months. What I mean by this is that from early April until last week or so, every time I visited my garden I had work to do! From spring clean up, pruning the [...]
Last week we had a lot of rain (this week’s a heat wave and a few thunderstorms), and since the roses are heavy with blooms we had a little mishap. My Baron Prevost and Jack Cartier roses are standing tall near a wooden trellis that’s attached to the fence. I’ve also lightly attached some of [...]
I was outside in my garden today, wandering around looking at the four Clematis that are currently blooming and checking to see if any of my roses or if the peonies had begun to bloom yet and I noticed that almost all of my rose plants had tons of aphids all clustered around the rose [...]
