The new year brings resolutions.

If you make resolutions, here is one. This year, I resolve to have my best garden ever: pruning, feeding and watering.

This is a resolution I definitely need to make – okay, I’m making it, I’m making it!

If you did a great job caring for your little darlings in 2008 but you still find a few under-performing roses in your garden, now is a good time to make some evaluations and eliminations.

This is truly the most painful decision I ever have to make in my rose garden, because I hate to consign living things to the trash heap.

There is an alternativ...