Red Roots

About Red Roots

The first real rain of November changes the smell of the whole valley, and the ground finally softens enough to take a new plant. Red Roots does its best work in that window — setting in trees and shrubs, renewing beds, building borders, giving root systems a chance to establish while the soil is willing and the sun is kind. Anything planted now spends the winter quietly reaching down, which is the part nobody sees and the part everything else depends on. The rest is steady keeping: mowing, edging, trimming, weeding, and cleanups as the year comes around. Yards built from the roots up are the ones that hold their shape when the dry months return.