What’s going on in your garden (2025)?

300g of raspberries.

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Here is what I picked today, basil, make me think of Faulty Towers series, haha

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What makes me happy is this newly acquired herbaceous peony is emerging, maybe I might get some flowers this year. The buds are exposed so the peony can get some chill.

Kathy’s Touch
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Here is a few pictures of my newly acquired guava this year, this guava variety is known to be difficult to grow, so far not in my garden, but my soil is bad, so I had to improvise, by not planting it directly in the ground.

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Close up shot of one fruit

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sharing a few pictures of my roses before I remove everything.

The Pride
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Masora, a Japanese rose

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Yves Piaget
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This is what my front garden looks like right now, a month ago I removed all leaves and trim them down, they are coming up nicely.
I can’t wait for next year, they will be at their peaks.

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SoCalZone10 said:
sharing a few pictures of my roses before I remove everything.

The Pride
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Masora, a Japanese rose

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Yves Piaget
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This is what my front garden looks like right now, a month ago I removed all leaves and trim them down, they are coming up nicely.
I can’t wait for next year, they will be at their peaks.

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They are gorgeous. Please don't remove them! Or did you mean you already did?
 
Morning Glory said:
They are gorgeous. Please don't remove them! Or did you mean you already did?
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Not yet, but after the blooms, I’m waiting after Christmas. Yves Piaget is just blooming constantly. The blooms are great but the leaves are not, I like them to start over with new leaves, less problem like pests hiding under the leaves or something. I garden organically, so I don’t spray anything.
 
SoCalZone10 said:
Not yet, but after the blooms, I’m waiting after Christmas. Yves Piaget is just blooming constantly. The blooms are great but the leaves are not, I like them to start over with new leaves, less problem like pests hiding under the leaves or something. I garden organically, so I don’t spray anything.
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I wait until they have died back naturally, and then trim the stems down when they start to show the first signs of new growth in spring. My Grannie taught me to wait for that new growth, so you knew which way the highest growth was pointing for when you cut the stem back (you can control the shape of a rose bush by this manner - I don't think I have explanined that very well, but basically where you trim the rose back to, that top bud will be the dominant growth and if it is on the inside of the stem, the rose will have growth going upwards more towards vertical, where as if the top new growth is an outside bud, it will spread more outwards than up vertically.... yeah - that explanation probably still has not worked.)

you still need to remove all leaves and litter though to reduce the pests. It is just the timing of when to cut back those main stems
 
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