hot cocoa

Usually, with roses especially, I'm a dead-heading fool-- clipping each blossom that's past its prime, so the blooms keep coming. This year, I'm making an effort not to (now that its December)-- with the idea that the roses need to rest up some for next year. Also, some rosebushes will form lovely hips (the seedpods). Mostly mine just have the soggy, moldy-looking old roses just sitting on 'em still. And some just keep blooming, like Hot Cocoa here.