Your right Deb, the most important part is below ground level. I am not worried about anything because again it's Mother Nature doing her thing. But the old fashion bleeding hearts will be fine. The gold one I have had since it came on the market about 8 years ago..so it's a big beauty and was in a protected area. That's why it got its flowers early and looked lush. Not anymore. But we'll see what happens. The importance of that plant is foliage color anyway...the flowers are the bonus. It looks pretty sad right now. :( Good science experience on early frost, one to put in the journal for future references.

Gorgeous roses all, with my favorite being Liv Tyler, Baptiste Lafay and Sonia Rykiel. My garden is one of the great passions in my life and I can't imagine a life without roses, especially old roses. The care I've given them has been repaid many times over with the happiness they've given me over the years. The planning, the planting, the growing - it's all been so exciting and pleasurable. Even the setbacks and challenges have added spice to my life, especially after I've overcome them! The garden will never be perfect, but striving to make it so is making me perfectly happy.

Hello everyone, It¡¦s been VERY difficult but I¡¦ve tried to follow your advice. Well¡K.mostly. It really is almost an obsessive addicting thing¡Kgoing out there every day and nosing around. ÂX I noticed that the wandering jew was starting to grow back so I cut off the mushy brown leaves. ÂX I also took the dead leaves off of the lantana and potato vine because they too have started to grow back. But that¡¦s it. ÂX I¡¦ve left the crotons, bouganvilla, thunbergia, ixora, and passion vine alone ¡V they look the worst. ÂX I think that the parilla magilla is already dead. Anyone know if they might come back? ÂX I¡¦ve also left the palms the way they are. I just have anxiety about how to trim them when it¡¦s time¡KI also don¡¦t know how to trim the travelers tree. ÂX I scratched the bottom of the bark on the thunbergia and ixora and saw green, so I imagine they¡¦ll grow back. ÂX I can actually see new shoots at the bottom of the xanadu and would LOVE to chop off the top weeping leaves, but I¡¦m being a good girl and letting it look ugly. Teeka ¡V hello, we used Benjamin Moore paints for the color of our house. The base color is Wilmington Tan and the trim is Standish White. You have to be careful with the trim. Initially, we had regular white that we already had a gallon of. It was too contrasting and there was no warmth, it looked pretty bad so we had to repaint the trim. We used Standish White and it looks nice, but we would have preferred something even darker to create less of a contrast. Good luck!

I know I know I said but on the way back to the house I noticed that Sultana still has blooms - she's too tiny and low to the ground and the light is fading so no pics , oh hey look over there high society is blossoming still too Y'all will get a break from me now since I have to make crab apple jam, can tomatoes, and the pear trees + a few more apple trees are going to get me busy soon too I'll still find time to look at all your pretty pictures though! hh