One of the things we worked on last night was the back yard side of the storm damage.
One of our rose bushes, a climber and English rose called Teasing Georgia, was half smooshed when the tree fell and the privacy fence buckled. As you look toward it, the entire right half was basically laying on the ground. By the time I got to it last weekend, some canes had actually sprouted new growth that was growing up toward the sun. I put two trellises against the privacy fence and
with an abundance of caution, untangled the spaghetti nest of canes. It took a good long time to cut the dead and damaged from the viable and then tie those canes to the trellis with garden wire, but it did look better afterward.
Note: This is a two year old bush which was probably 12 – 18 inches tall when it was planted. It’s now approaching six feet. What’s it going to be in 5 years? Yikes, I need a bigger trellis.
Teasing Georgia, recovering
The yard is coming alive with color and I hope to start having my first cup of coffee while snapping photos of the roses in bloom very soon.
