Hi, my dear Hive gardeners!
How are you? In my garden, I already have the first crop of cherries! We've been amazingly lucky this year and the weather has been perfectly balanced with periods of rain and warm weather so the plants are doing great. True, I have one problem with this cherry tree - some branches were attacked by aphids. Unfortunately, at the moment I can't help it with anything other than soapy water or tobacco dust. I don't know how effective it will be... But as soon as the tree finishes feeding: aphids, you're in for a nasty surprise!
The pleasant garden news of this week was the simultaneous flowering of my roses. I love climbing roses but it's not such an easy task to keep them if you have freezing winters. Special articles advise removing them from the support and covering them with straw. Interestingly, these horticultural theorists tried to remove from the support more than two-meter thorny stems that were tangled with each other?
Thus, all I can do is insulate the bottom of the stem and hope for the best. It usually works, although once my red rose did freeze. Fortunately, its roots remained alive, and a year later it bloomed again.
In addition, climate change is already strongly felt in our region. Our winters have gotten warmer so I don't think it will happen again that my roses will freeze.
Weaving roses are associated with Andersen's fairy tales. When I was a child, I had a book by this author, and on the cover was a house with a balcony entwined with climbing roses. I always dreamed that one day I too would have a house and a garden with such roses. I spent several years waiting for my roses to grow and look like the cover of my children's book.
