What flowers and vegetables should I plant near the end of March, beginning of April, north of Salmon Creek?
Your last frost should be the end of April. So now’s the time to plant all your cool-season crops such as broccoli, lettuce, carrots, pansies and snapdragons. Starting in May, you can start with the other vegetables and flowers such as petunias, geraniums and zinnias. I’d wait until later in May for the warm-weather crops of veggies.
I have just sent for a Cecile Brunner rose. I have heard conflicting things about how long it blooms each season. One nursery said it has one big bloom in spring and then not much else all summer. Someone else said it actually has one big show in spring and then roses all summer, but just not as many. Which is correct? Is it a fast-grower and disease-resistant rose? Is it a good idea to put it on a big wall next to an Eden Climber?
Cecile Brunner is a repeat-bloomer, producing small pink blooms throughout the growing season. It’s sometimes called a “lapel rose” because of its small, lovely shaped bud. It’s a quick-growing, long-lived rose introduced in 1881, and is relatively disease-resistant. You can plant it near another climbing rose, providing you give both roses plenty of room to grow. Flowers are produced on new shoots that develop on last year’s wood. You’ll do some selective pruning each year, only cutting out the spent flowering cane to encourage new young cane to bloom next spring.
