Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Blooms, almost November, or other garden pretties?, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Cat--

how do you think i felt cutting all the stems, laden with buds and bloom, off
on MY Dr. Seuss brug?
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and hack away.

Plants can have eternal life---always re-growing from roots or cuttings taken.
Nothing lives or dies forever--in the plant world. There is usually another life to have.

Waxing Poetic here.....Gita

1--Dr. S.nipped by frost
2--Frost damaged leaves dying now...
3--First cut-back--all the green tips with all the buds and blooms on them--GONE!
4--Cuttings (about 50 or more) now taken--and she is ready to be transported
to Cylburn.
5--Box-full of cuttings---also taken to Cylburn. Hope he has time to root them all.