As mentioned in my last post, the budding of Bradford Pears is one of the surest signs that we have at least one more "hard freeze" to come. (A phrase peculiar to Houston, which means that it really got below 32.) And in fact, we had another one this last week and may get one more this week. The last 2-3 winters have been mild almost to the point that if you blinked, you missed winter. Not this year, this has been a long and unusal winter here in Houston. With two snows... I have lived in Houston most of my 50 years and only remember it snowing 2-3 times in my life and it never sticks but twice in one winter, never.
I dutifully trimmed my roses on Valentine's, the traditional day in Houston (except for my antique roses). And over the last week my climber in the front year has set a vast number of green leaves, which brings me back to my dilemma about her. This climber is a David Austin named Teasing Georgia and she is a tease. The description was that she was a medium climber of about 8 feet. Well she fooled us all. She is on a 7 foot obelisk trellis which she has totally engulfed and has grown out of the top of and taken over the sidewalk. So I need to come up with a new solution for her. Last season she bloomed in about 4-5 waves and was quite spectacular. Her first way was in late March and she set out about 150 buds and then had a spectacular run for 3-4 weeks. She repeated this pattern several times during the season but never with the show she put on in early spring. So begone winter, Georgia is ready to make her debut...
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