The Husband doesn't like gardening and doesn't do the great proportion of the work outside - he leaves that to me. One exception is pruning the roses, almost all of which were drastically cut back and are only about two feet high at the moment. The one rose he didn't prune was a climber on the wall that flanks part of one side of the garden. Here are the flowers already blossoming there or about to come out.
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Absolutely GORGEOUS!! Your roses are way ahead of ours. As a matter of fact, I just uncovered one of my roses this week. I have Just four in the garden, two in the ground and two in pots. We really need to add more. I can only hope they look as lovely as yours!
Buffy
Buffy, strangely enough it's only the climber which is so far forward. All the others are still growing away and I suspect we won't see any blooms on them for quite a while. I curse our clay soil a lot, as you know, but it and our situation are absoltely ideal for growing roses.
What really impresses me, aside from the sheer beauty of the blossoms, is the absence of little marks left by dear wee bugs and of black spot. Unheard of, around here. You are reminding me that I must go cut back the dead canes on our roses--today! Unfortunately, we may have lost a couple of plants. Cop Car
Ohhhhhhh the dreaded black spot! We have a terrible time with it here. It's why we only have four roses at the moment. The one that is most advanced here is the climber, but only in foliage and stems, no buds. On the other hand, I have several iris in bloom today, with hundreds getting ready to pop in tomorrow's warm weather! I'll take what I can get!
Buffy
oh....I didn't check to see if we celebrate on the same day, but no matter when it comes, Happy Mother's Day to you! I hope you've had a wonderful day!
Buffy
Mothering Sunday has come and gone over here as it's always in March. I hope both of you had a lovely day yesterday.
Yes, we have a little black spot on some of our roses but, fortunately, not on the climbers. I have to admit that I never treat my roses for black spot at all and still they keep on growing every year. The Husband just prunes them once a year and then we just let them alone. Oh, and if I remember I may feed them sometime in the Spring. We have aphids but the garden is also inhabited by a thriving ladybird population.
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