Everything Roses

Eight-Legged Tick Invaders

Visiting our gardens When we usually enter our gardens we go there with a specific intent or reason. These reasons vary depending on the season, the garden’s immediate needs at the time, or our own enjoyment. These reasons vary from the weeds need pulling, to seeing the first bloom on the rose you recently planted. ...

When Gardening, Protect Yourself from Ticks

My love of wildlife does not extend to ticks. Ticks are vectors (the agent of transmission) for 16 different diseases in the U.S., a number that seems to grow every time I visit the CDC website. Personal Connection For me, tickborne disease is personal. Both my mother and my father were diagnosed with tickborne diseases, ...