When weather began to warm one of the first things that we did was to begin to plant a few things to make the new home base our home. Our first planting was three rose bushes, followed by two small crabapple trees. There has also been a great deal of work on our lawn as the previous owner did very little by way of landscaping. Our first rose is now blooming! We would have had two roses blooming, had it not been for some hungry rabbits in the neighborhood! I had never known rabbits to eat rose bushes, but ours is not the only one that has been lunch to something. We had a very nice cream colored rose that was growing best of the three and which had at least a dozen bud nearly ready to begin to open, when one night something devoured every leaf and bud on the plant, completely stripping it to the stems! As of today it has begun to put out new leaves so if the rabbits will just leave it be........................ Even so, it great to have some flowers here.