Gardening Oops Day is the brainchild of  Joene Hendry, a Connecticut resident, who knows gardening can’t happen without a few mistakes.

Someone once told me, “If you’re not killing plants, you’re not really gardening” and I took that to heart. Because I consider my landscape one big experiment, I have a lot to contribute to Gardening Oops Day 2009.

A miniature rose is the special feature of this oops. The Denver’s Dream was a beautiful coral rose given to me by my mother-in-law as a house-warming present. I planted it in a sunny spot in the front garden and it did well for several seasons.

Unfortunately, I had also planted a tiny juniper in that same bed. The juniper was given to me by a friend–she had found a pine cone that sprouted and thought it would be a good addition to my new landscape.