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It's winter. WINTER! Not Spring!
Feb. 20th, 2005 05:57 pmNonetheless, with hours of sunshine despite non-spring temperatures, yesterday I ripped out the old diseased rose garden then spent a few hours researching a list of 85 different roses from the local nursery to replace them with. I stuck with only those ranked as excellent disease resistant varieties, as I hate spraying plants with poison that obliterates everything in addition to the bad stuff.
I assumed the new roses would be bareroot, or maybe little paperboard containers like they have at Costco since they only cost $7 more per bush. Oh no. I had to button up my coat this afternoon from the wind and survey a sprawling scene of roses in 5 gallon containers, then strategically lug and place 5 of them in my tiny shopping cart, shove it to checkout, then roll down an incline to the car without losing control with all the weight!
Planting those kicked my ass, but it's done and I installed a new drip hose & scattered one bag of mulch around before declaring it a day. The roses are our 5th anniversary present to ourselves in addition to 5 days in Victoria later, so there is a lot of symbolism to the one grandiflora in the center (Love, of course), two hybrid teas & two floribundas. I'll share pics this summer, and can't wait to have some in each room upstairs. My great-grandma made rose beads in New Zealand when she was a little girl that we still have today, I might tinker around to see if I can make them too.
In other news, the daffodils & hyacinths popped Friday afternoon, we've had two active sessions of chasing bubbles around the backyard, and Kieran adored his first 'moovie theater!' movie (Heffalump) with his usual quiet & focused approach to anything new, then constantly laughing and talking about Pooh and the heffalumps on the way to get Chinese food.
I assumed the new roses would be bareroot, or maybe little paperboard containers like they have at Costco since they only cost $7 more per bush. Oh no. I had to button up my coat this afternoon from the wind and survey a sprawling scene of roses in 5 gallon containers, then strategically lug and place 5 of them in my tiny shopping cart, shove it to checkout, then roll down an incline to the car without losing control with all the weight!
Planting those kicked my ass, but it's done and I installed a new drip hose & scattered one bag of mulch around before declaring it a day. The roses are our 5th anniversary present to ourselves in addition to 5 days in Victoria later, so there is a lot of symbolism to the one grandiflora in the center (Love, of course), two hybrid teas & two floribundas. I'll share pics this summer, and can't wait to have some in each room upstairs. My great-grandma made rose beads in New Zealand when she was a little girl that we still have today, I might tinker around to see if I can make them too.
In other news, the daffodils & hyacinths popped Friday afternoon, we've had two active sessions of chasing bubbles around the backyard, and Kieran adored his first 'moovie theater!' movie (Heffalump) with his usual quiet & focused approach to anything new, then constantly laughing and talking about Pooh and the heffalumps on the way to get Chinese food.
