Prepare your roses for winter

As we’re putting up Christmas lights before the snows come back and pulling out dead annuals, don’t forget your rose bushes. Sometime between now and when the leaf buds begin to develop in the spring, cut rose canes back by at least a third. In addition,...
Prepare for next year’s garden

Prepare for next year’s garden

My annuals have turned brown–I believe I mentioned once before that I like to eek every last bloom from them before pulling them out for the season–and my perennials have mostly followed in their wake. Now it’s time to collect seeds for next season....