Not a whole lot going on worth blogging about. But I can show you this.
This is a rose my dad got and planted for me one time. I have no idea what exactly it is, or even specifically how it's supposed to be growing. It doesn't look like a typical shrub rose, it's not a climber - at least, it's resisted all attempts to train it onto the fence. I tried tying it to the fence one year with string, but over time the string rotted and fell off, and it went back to this floppy state.
I think next year, or in the fall, I'll trim it back to about a foot high, and see what it does then. I know I did that one other year, and it just grew huge again that next spring. So it certainly won't hurt it. I'd like to trim it up some way that keeps it looking full and well-shaped, but I don't want to limit or stunt it's beautiful blooms.
Speaking of roses that live on despite neglect, this is another little rose my dad got me, a miniature that I think he just bought at Giant Eagle (our semi-local grocery store).
It's been in this spot for, I don't know, maybe 10 years or more, with little to no care. One year I remember taking pity on it and trying to feed it on something like a decent schedule, but I think I stopped halfway through the year, and don't remember doing it any other year. Yet this little thing blooms like this through the first frost and usually right on up till snow.
One early spring my dad accidentally cut it off with the weed trimmer. I was heartbroken, thinking he'd killed it, but apparently not. I haven't trimmed this one, since it's a miniature anyway, except that every year there are a few ends of stems that seem to have some winter damage, and I'll trim them off. But it's starting to get a little leggy. Maybe I should start covering it with something in the winter, and maybe it too would benefit from a cut back to even it up this fall or in the spring. It originally set several inches back from where it is now, but the main stem died off, but enough little new shoots came off of that to keep it going.
That's about it around here. I haven't been in the mood for knitting - a bad sign, but there it is.
This is a rose my dad got and planted for me one time. I have no idea what exactly it is, or even specifically how it's supposed to be growing. It doesn't look like a typical shrub rose, it's not a climber - at least, it's resisted all attempts to train it onto the fence. I tried tying it to the fence one year with string, but over time the string rotted and fell off, and it went back to this floppy state.
I think next year, or in the fall, I'll trim it back to about a foot high, and see what it does then. I know I did that one other year, and it just grew huge again that next spring. So it certainly won't hurt it. I'd like to trim it up some way that keeps it looking full and well-shaped, but I don't want to limit or stunt it's beautiful blooms.
Speaking of roses that live on despite neglect, this is another little rose my dad got me, a miniature that I think he just bought at Giant Eagle (our semi-local grocery store).
It's been in this spot for, I don't know, maybe 10 years or more, with little to no care. One year I remember taking pity on it and trying to feed it on something like a decent schedule, but I think I stopped halfway through the year, and don't remember doing it any other year. Yet this little thing blooms like this through the first frost and usually right on up till snow.One early spring my dad accidentally cut it off with the weed trimmer. I was heartbroken, thinking he'd killed it, but apparently not. I haven't trimmed this one, since it's a miniature anyway, except that every year there are a few ends of stems that seem to have some winter damage, and I'll trim them off. But it's starting to get a little leggy. Maybe I should start covering it with something in the winter, and maybe it too would benefit from a cut back to even it up this fall or in the spring. It originally set several inches back from where it is now, but the main stem died off, but enough little new shoots came off of that to keep it going.
That's about it around here. I haven't been in the mood for knitting - a bad sign, but there it is.
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