Roses
The professional pruner brought some tools and some loppers and proceeded to lop off my roses in a most frightening manner. All I could do was to stand by and watch helplessly.
When I checked the results after he left it seemed as if he had used a hedge cutter on my roses. It looked like a massacre. A fiasco. My beautiful rose canes had been chopped off mercilessly.
Continue reading about My Rose Pruning. A Success or Fiasco?
Optimally, it’s best to prune just before the roses feel the first growing surge of spring. As you know, gardening has a lot to do with feeling!
Roses, like people go through periods of relaxation and times of stress. Their worst stress is when the sun is beating down on them and they are thirsting for water.
Deadheading roses is one of the easiest forms of rose care but gardeners often neglect this. It’s easy to forget to deadhead roses particularly when the season advances and the roses have been blooming for quite a long time. Here is an easy way to deadhead roses.
If you need some ideas to help you plan your rose garden here are some tips that should be quite helpful.
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