Eric de Broche des Combes

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Octagon Roses

Today is gardening day.

I have been trying to grow "Octagon Roses". They are 8 stalks of 2 octagon roses, the roots to be planted in the flowerbed. Each part will be put together and give a rose with 8 petals. They are very beautiful little flowers, full of long and delicious tubes. The stems grow in the shape of a circle, which makes it look like an octagon inside the circle. When I have a rosebush then I can get about five roses from it. They may move when the wind blows but do not break down.  

My tool are: A grass bag, a pencil clip, a gardening fork, some colored glassine paper, a bunch of twigs and bags filled with soil pellets, the end of a pencil and a clay pot.

My favourite tool is called the Holemaster. It has two handles and one blade on each handle so you can dig holes faster.