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Have you noticed how a low border of boxwood shows off a rose bed to perfection? Boxwood shrubs are expenâ€" sive hedges or border plants but cutâ€" a week or two of more blooms. Incidentally, Thompson Morgan have introduced a new variety for 1995. It was a chance seedling found by Sir David Scott at Broughton House in Kettering, UK, when he was 98 years old. The flowers are lavenderâ€"mauve with the usual velvet royalâ€"purple veins found in Pinkâ€"Princess and Zebrina. These three malva are three to four feet tall with a fastigate form and flower from July to frost. Seeds of Pink Princess, which has pink petals, will be available at the Oakville Horticultural Society meetings, the second Monday of each month at 8 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church. Small plants will be at the spring sale in May. The frost touched the malva and it has wilted. Luckily I cut several stems and brought them into the house to get good news is that there is still time to clear up the mess and lay sod. It will knit into the soil during the winter and be ready for rapid growth in the spring. Meanwhile it will improve the appearance of the garden this winter. he frost last week was a little Tlate to save a lawn in our area. The warm soil tempted the white grubs to continue eating rather than hibernating. They shortened the roots of the grass until they were close to the surface. The plant stress caught the attention of the skunks, raccoons or crows who dug up the lawn and hopeâ€" fully ate the grubs.: Some of us who had applied nematodes a month ago were smug as we felt we had saved our lawns from a similar fate. Too late for saving frost ovember 16, 1994 your windows. Made of gently con folds, Vignette" window shadings a range of colors, two fabrics and thr sizes. Imagine what they can do for your windows. And your green thumb Hunter Douglas creates THE NEWEST of gently contoured fabric w shadings are available in a abrics and three different fold L window fashion from a soft, sophisticated style for all Hardwood cuttings of shrubs like forsythia, weigela, and spirea obtain a large number of new plants. Cut six to eightâ€"inch lengths of stems removing the top inch. Cut the top at an angle. Dip the stripped lower ends in a rooting hormone and tie them in bundles of about 10 stems. Bury them about a foot in the ground, sixâ€"inches in a cold frame or wrap them in moist cloth and place them in the refrigerator. Make sure the latter do not dry out during the winter. In the spring they will be calâ€" loused and may be planted out three inches apart with the tops about two inches above the ground. They will root during the summer and may be planted tings are free if you have or can locate a mature plant. Boxwood cuttings may be taken now and rooted in a cool area in perlite. In the spring or next summer they may be set around the rose bed. Over the years they will grow into a find, low hedge. Let the children cut and insert some in the perlite so they will identify with the garden. Cut three to four inch lengths, strip the leaves from an inch of the lower end and dip the base into a rooting compound. Then put them individually about one inch apart into moist perlite in a sixâ€"inch pot. Water, drain and place the pots in plasâ€" tic bags, tie up the end and place them in a cool, light area. English ivy, holâ€" lies, junipers and yews are other easily rooted evergreens. The door design workshops are on December 8th at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The instructor is Gwen Wilby. Many helpers are there to ensure that each person will make a beautiful Christmas decoration. All the materials except ribbons and candles are supplied. They may be purâ€" chased at the workshop. The cost of each session is ¢15. The annual Auxiliary Christmas Workshops are an exciting event that leads participants to produce a beautiful Christmas door hanging or table decoâ€" ration. The table design workshops are on Tuesday, December 6th at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Wednesday, 7th at 7 p.m. The instructor is Lillie Haworth. Christmas Creations The annual Christmas Creation Sale, at the Royal Botanical Gardens, is on Friday November 18th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a sale of unique dried floral designs created by the Auxiliary specialists. There will be floral design demonstrations and dramatic table arrangements and door prizes through the day. Admission is $2 at the door. The Royal Botanical Gardens have a number of benches placed in the new colonnade entrance way. These are made of different woods harvested in Ontario. They are useful as memorials with a small brass plaque at a cost of about $1,000, which is a charitable gift. Trees may also be dedicated at various levels of gifts. 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