The word for the year - Patience

A week ago, I was thinking that very few of my roses had made it through the winter.  I did lose a couple, but most of them are sending up leaves from the roots.  Our winter wasn't all that cold and we had good snow cover, so I am not sure why there was so much die-back on the branches.  My favorite, Bright Eyes, isn't looking good (no buds or green), but I haven't given up on them (I have two in the middle of the west border) just yet.

The rose garden is cleaned up and ready for a few annuals and a replacement rose or two.  Then a thick cover of cocoa bean mulch to keep the weeds down (I wish!).