Re: Re: today

We always moderately prune our roses this time of year to get another season of bloom until December, or January if we're lucky.

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Marge Talt
Sent: 9/1/2004 7:38:21 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] today

> > From: Donna <justme@prairieinet.net>
> > 
> > Pruning this time of year? Thought that was a spring thing Kitty,
> or
> > have you finished winter stuff and now on next spring projects LOL!
> ----------
> 
> Well, I just gave some yew hedges a bit of a shear last eve - some in
> the dark, so they ought to be *real* straight; didn't have a chance
> to get out today to see what I did to them:-) ...August is the time
> to do that tho' it would have been better done a bit earlier in the
> month.  Still have a couple shrubs to go - the long sprongers they've
> put out this summer are getting severely on my one remaining nerve.
> 
> Sort of depends on where you are, too...would not do this if I lived
> far north where winter was just around the corner, but I've got
> another 2 months at least before things get really nippy around
> here...
> 
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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