The roses are carrying on with flowers and buds, but they’re showing the effects of the cool nights. Some mornings their flowers are a bit hung over—and not from excessive alcohol! But coming into their beautiful moment are colourful rose hips that have developed where I purposely allowed spent blossoms to remain and develop seed cases. I love these hips, with their various … [Read more...] about Beautiful rose hips
rose hips
Winterizing woody plants
When we're on the verge of hard frost in the garden, decisions need to be made about how to protect plants. Some gardeners make it a policy not to grow anything that isn’t comfortably frost-resistant in their gardens, and they have no worries about winter’s lowest temperatures. Then there are the risk takers, gardeners who grow plants at the edge of their hardiness zone (myself … [Read more...] about Winterizing woody plants
