Well, I have some catching up to do with the blog. It’s December and I’m just now posting about October and November events. First, I posted a couple of close ups of my roses that I took back in October (see previous two posts). They are climbing roses that flow over our backyard fence with significant splendor. They need to be cut back and pruned, but I’ll do that next spring.
Next up are the flowers that I planted back in October. Below is a picture of them at their peak. They looked pretty good, but the mums didn’t last much more than a month. I think next year a better combination might be dusty miller in the middle with colored pansies on either side. As a cold weather flower, the pansies are still going strong.
Here are a couple of pictures that I took in early November. The clematis is trained along the deck trellis, but it looks pretty ragged. I’m planning to cut it back in the spring and retrain it. I’m not sure what the other bush with the red flowers is, but it’s eye-catching when it blooms.
Finally, I have a big problem in my back yard, but more on that in my next post.
