Rose Gardening has Thorns and more.....

This is our 'new' rose trial garden at work....Florida can be a great place to garden if you want to fight a few battles...battle 1 involves weeds...this fight can be won by keeping constant vigilence.... and pulling a lot of stuff....usng mulch, etc...(photo below)...did I mention vigilence....?The there are the little creatures that like to make little mounds.....LOTs of little mounds.....this is a real problem to control....more than my interest level at least....there are 3 fresh mounds in the photo below...

Of course with a little work (lotta work actually) and sweat we can recover from the weeds anyway (below)...but note the little mounds in the photo below....

Of course since it is still early in the season the bugs and diseases are still resting.....NOTHING IS EASY.......