How sad.....big or small it is still disappointing.....I know that every one here can sympathize with you because we all have had disasters happen.....I hope you manage to save some of your garden..plants often are pretty hardy in surviving...I have had to go out and straighten up my corn about 4 times and it seems to be doing well...I am sorry about your garden and good luck with salvaging as muxh as possible...It is so disheartening having a beautiful garden one day and a mess the next...The deer ate all my leaves from my pole beans and I was so disappointed but they have once again leafed out and I picked my first bunch of beans from them this morning...good luck...

Steel T post will work just make sure you tie your rope as low to the ground as possible.Or you could use a earth anchor,it looks like a short auger that gets screwed into the ground they will hold tons of pressure.You can find them @ Home Depot, Menards or similar stores.One thing to keep in mind is use a piece of foam board insulation between the tree and rope so the rope does'nt damage the bark,rubber from a tire innertube will also work.You can probably find something laying around your workshop or basement,no need to spend alot of $$. lp

I started a tiny garden on an 8th floor balcony that faces north, and the pine tree that I bought three years ago is still going, despite the harsh winter in NY and the ceaseless wind. Any suggestions for plants that can offer wind protection and screening under such conditions?

@Kathy Williamson Kathy, you don't say where you are, or what your current weather is like. More importantly, we need to know if the rose was dormant or has leafed out. There's not much hope of the whole plant rooting, if it had no rootstock left at all. If it had been chewed by varmints, but still had some root left, you could prune it back, replant in a large pot (easier to control the moisture, etc), and hope for the best. But if there's no root at all, and the rose was still mostly dormant, you can try the method for rooting cuttings that I laid out 7 or 8 posts above this one. If the rose has already started growing, you could still take cuttings, but how you handle them would be different, and your chances are slightly less favorable. There are tutorials all over Youtube on how to root roses. You can still try rooting roses in active growth in the ground, but you'd need to leave at least one, preferably two sets of leaves at the top. Since warm weather is coming up, these later cuttings would still need to be covered (for humidity), and placed in partial shade to prevent over-heating. This is iffy, just because the growth phase the cuttings are in makes a world of difference. If the cuttings are too soft, they wilt and die before they can root. If the wood is too old, they won't root at all. The ideal is semi-hardwood of this year's growth. A good bet is taking a cutting of wood that has just flowered. Unfortunately, I'm betting your rose isn't in that phase yet, unless you're in California. It may not be any consolation, but Mr Lincoln is fairly easy to get hold of, and technically, all Mr Lincolns are clones of the same original plant. So even though it won't be the rose your mom planted (although, it kind of *is*), you can get a replacement. John