It’s funny when I first started this garden I wasn’t sure that it would have roses. I wasn’t sure if it was a garden for roses, and every year it proves more and more that my roses like it here in spite of the things like the borers , which live here a plenty because of the woods.

Roses were my first love, and I still adore them. I stick to the ones that I love best, which are the David Austin English Roses and antique roses. I have had some failures, and this year I had a few over the winter because some voles got jiggy with my root systems on some of my favorite roses, and I had to replant.

Anyway, enjoy the roses. I know I am. Happy gardening.