Daddy was in England during WWII. War paints a vivid picture in the mind of a child. Mother told me what it was like for my father during WWII in England. Daddy didn’t talk about it. She told of blackouts, air raids in the night and the terrifying Luftwaffe strafing Continue Reading
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A Rosarian’s Ode To Lilacs
Something happened on my way to building the new rose garden. A memory so vivid it took my breath away. Fragrance triggers are like lightening bolts in our brain. The fragrance was the smell of a lilac bush just starting to bloom on a cool Continue Reading
Rose Garden Eclipse of the Heart
Does a watched rose bush produce a rose bud more quickly? I don’t think so. Waiting for your rose garden to leaf out, produce canes and ultimately rose buds is like waiting for paint to dry. So I’ve come up with some things for you to do. This is an Continue Reading
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Rose Pruning Primer, Early Pruning post traumatic stress disorder (PPTSD)
Let us hope and pray y’all have not gotten spring fever with the deceptively warm winter, gone wild and whacked your bushes. Because if a killing frost comes along there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth if the new growth stimulated by your early pruning dies back as the Continue Reading
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Roses, It’s About Time
It’s about time all gardeners have a rose garden. If they want one then they shall have one. The RoseDoc, Ted Mills, Chattanooga, TN wrote an article in the American Rose Society’s American Rose Magazine September/October 2011 edition called The Last Word…On Roses. He says the median age of the Continue Reading