The Yucca didn't make it. After getting thrashed in a winter storm back in January or December it developed some kind of moldy disease on the trunks, so I took it out. C'est la vie. I've got an orange Canna waiting in the garage for the spot. Also, I think the purple sage it was hanging over will like the full sun now.

Also, I moved the America Rose (one last time!) to the Kitchen Garden, to the corner spot. It's really he best kind of place for a climbing rose like that - it has lots of wall to climb and is a southern exposure that gets most of its sun in the first half of the day.

I got rid of the last of the roses on the western wall - the Peace Rose. It just wasn't right there. I read recently that no rose is happy on a west-facing wall because they stay shaded and wet in the morning and then get burned all afternoon. Yep, that was the way they were.

I'm keeping the Icebergs in their spots for now - they're disease-resistant (sort of) and once the walls are painted a light color, they might feel more at home. If I have to move them I will, but for now it's a wait and see. I had moved the small pretty pink rose on the west wall to the other side of the IG, free-standing, so we'll see. He's all that's left of the previous owner's rose plantings. That's four rose bushes in total.

The IG is really beginning to take on more of a Grecian look, with the dry pebbles on the ground and the plantings still small so they look like specimens. I like it.