When designing a landscape for San Diego and trying to implement xeriscape ideas, I love to incorporate roses.  Roses come in a huge variety of sizes, growth habits, textures, and colors, and I especially find carpet roses, (ground cover roses) to be one of the most useful and toughest plants in the landscape. Carpet roses…
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The color purple is just glowing in the vegetable garden now when many other things are waning.  We have been enjoying them for weeks and using them for casual flower arrangements. These plants were started in the spring by seed and have been flowering since late summer.  They have attracted butterflies and many bees.  In…
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