Another year is almost gone. It was a good year in my garden. I learned that I could do almost everything without any expensive outside assistance. The weeds got away from me, but the garden looked good in spite of them.
I'm hoping for an even better gardening year in 2017, now that I'm not anticipating a huge re-do of my garden because of the gas company's easement along my back fence. The utility company came up with an amended removal plan that turned out to be almost nothing. I lost one dogwood, one hydrangea, one Rose of Sharon, and two roses (instead of the more than 40 roses I had expected to lose).
Our thumbnail rose for this month is Winter Gem, more commonly known as Marie van Houtte.
