Today I made a bit of progress on my pruning. It took some time at lunch while the weather was nice.

Earlier in the week I had pruned back some of my rose bushes and had two left to start.

While filling up the yard waste bin I noticed a lady bug, and had to rescue it from being sent to the dump. I coaxed it onto my glove and took it back to a rose bush.

You can see that the yard waste bin was almost full. I did pack it down a bit and have some room left if I work in the yard tomorrow.

You can see that I have a lot of work left in cleaning up the rose bushes. I follow a three stage pruning. I cut back the large canes, thin out what is left, and then come back after new growth appears to cut out all the dead wood that I have missed.

Since the yard waste bin is almost full the second stage may wait until next weekend. Plus, I needed to get back to work. The lunch hour goes by fast.

The front yard looks a lot different without the big rose bushes, but they will be growing back soon.

Steven

WwRI