winter solstice in the garden~

The brugmansia is still showing a few blooms

Today I finished pruning all the roses NOT in the rose garden. I have spent the month of December pruning 9 climbing roses, 50 simplicity roses, 28 ground cover roses, 46 grandiflora roses and one bush rose for a total of 134 roses! I put this last group of white simplicity roses off to the very last, I couldn't bear to lose the view from this...

to that!

A stark reality!

Already eager for their white return!

Just that hedge line created a 15' long by 5' wide debris pile to shred.

Good thing I am not pruning the angels trumpet and can still enjoy a wee bit of backyard beauty.

On the shortest day of the year it was a glorious sunset~

2 minutes more of sunlight a day, spring is on her way!