While park visitors enjoy the roses in the summer, harsh winters in Clay County can get as cold as -35 degrees. Randy Nelson, Extension educator in Clay County, manages the trial at a city park in Dilworth, where city leaders and staff have welcomed the research with enthusiasm. The roses are watered as needed in the first year to establish a strong root system. That’s right, no tipping, burying or forcing them to wear the Styrofoam dunce cap. Photo: Bailey Nurseriesįor gardeners, this means roses that survive without pesticides, fertilizer and winter cover other than the typical wood mulch and snow. I’m certainly looking forward to reading more of her books, there’s a long queue of them on my shelf waiting to be read.Head Over Heels won the Local Artist Award for the climate region that includes Minnesota.
It was a good book, but nothing remarkable, and not as good as the other books my McKillip I have read. It made it feel like they were isolated from everything else, which tied in well with the fantastical goings-on. The characters were good and well fleshed out and I liked the small village setting. I’m being rather vague because this issue revolves around a large plot point which I don’t want to spoil. However, things are alluded to (well, more than alluded, more like stated as fact) which will happen, as if the narrator is looking back on these events, but then that doesn’t happen, and I found that frustrating and confusing. There were some unexpected twists and turns which surprised me though, and some aspects went against my expectation, so it was refreshing to see something different for the ‘romance’ element of the book. If it had been more condensed it would have pulled me in more to keep me reading as there was too much dilly dallying to keep my interest. I think the book would have been better if it were shorter as, really, only a few things happen. At times though, things were too vague and ambiguous, leaving me confused in places and reading passages again to make sure I’d understood what was happening. Her use of language and descriptions always captivate me and capture my imagination. Well, wouldn’t be any point in retelling it the same would it? Fairy tale retellings seem to be quite popular at the moment.Īs usual, McKillip’s poetic prose is enchanting. I didn’t know anything about this origin before I begun reading, but afterwards did some research and the book retells the story but with some major differences to the original story. Winter Rose is a retelling of the Scottish Tam Lin legend/ballad by my favourite author, Patricia A.
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