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« Ready. Set. Dig! | Main | Art & science project: A raised bed » May 15, 2007My roses don't listenIf you're like me -- an amateur gardener who loves the smell of fresh warming earth -- this is the season for you. My name is Karen Bordeleau, and I live in Smithfield, which can be a rather fickle place to grow some Zone 6 plants. Every weekend, I put on my grubby clothes and spend a lot of time sticking my hands in dirt and pulling too many weeds. I have had the gardening itch for 13 years now -- ever since I planted a Moon Garden (which came in one can) and it actually bloomed. What incentive. This year, I had another one of those scares with my roses. I have four climbers, six shrubs and one "regular" rose bush. All of them behave themselves -- more or less -- except the two America climbers, who don't listen to a thing I say. These know-it-all climbers started to green up in February. I tried to tell them "It's all a big hoax. Mother Nature is gonna knock you around in March. Don't do it. Stay asleep. Please." They didn't listen. Three weeks ago, when they were supposed to have beautiful supple red leaves and shoots galore, they looked like gray twigs without the hint of life. So I did what every gardener worth her dirt does when success eludes. This time, I thought, I need something more hardy, something that is not going to break my gardening heart. So, after fellow blogger Sheila Lennon raved about the American wisteria she planted last year, I decided to give that a try. I ordered two of them -- one for the arbor and one to creep along the deck in the back yard. They arrived last Friday. I planted them Sunday. And what did I see as I was about to pull my "dead" America climbers out of the ground? New shoots, beautiful red leaves, the possibility of brilliant pink flushes in early summer. Geesh, I should be more patient with my plants. So now the America rose bushes still stand sentry at the arbor to my English garden. And the wisteria stands on the side of them. Just in case. Posted by Karen Bordeleau CommentsPost a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. |
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