Gardening tip - deadheading roses

Gardening tip - deadheading roses

Keep deadheading your roses religiously for a succession of blooms.  Removing heads instantly smartens up the plant and can keep repeat-flowering roses going for months.  Remove the flowers as you go along and once all flowering heads are spent, cut back any tall stems to a healthy stem of about pencil thickness and above a leaf with five leaflets.  But remember to leave your hip producing roses such as Rosa rugosa and Rosa moyesii for autumn and winter interest.


Gardeners' notes - what to do in April

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Modern heroes of horticulture - Alexandra Campbell

Alexandra Campbell’s journey into horticulture began long before she ever put pen to paper.  Growing up as the daughter of a diplomat, moving home was a regular occurrence and she...
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Exceptional trees - the Wood Wide Web

In recent years the ability of trees to ‘communicate’ with each other has been well documented.  Researchers have discovered  communication systems amongst trees and far from being passive organisms, it...
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