Fair Bianca

There are five glorious, bug-free, scented blooms and lots more buds on the Fair Bianca on the deck. The two Fair Biancas in the front yard have nothing. Which means fertilizing, watering and pruning DO make a difference.

I think I finally figured out how to prune a rose bush. First, you start in the spring. That's where I went wrong. Back in the spring, I was so excited to see growth on the rose bushes that I didn't want to cut a single leaf off. But that just turned my roses into Jack-in-the-Beanstalk wannabes.


I kept cutting off the spent blooms from the Fair Bianca on the deck and that made the rose happy. It's still making more buds. At some point this month, I'm supposed to let the blooms turn into rose hips so the bush will settle down for the winter. I'll have to find out more about that.