Re: roses
What excellent advice from Laura and Bill. After years of growing roses I
have only just convinced myself of the correctness of the "shovel-pruning"
of recalcitrant plants. Not only is the world bursting at the seams with
worthwhile roses, I'm not getting any younger and can't afford to wait
around while one seems to fulfil some lingering death wish.
The David Austin English roses are a pet dislike of mine because so many
seem so unpredictable in their growth, many needing only the very most
refined care to give anything........and they will certainly not get that in
my garden! Rough and ready would be a better description. I even have a core
list of roses that will go on blooming minus deadheading for years. Good
stuff.
Cheers,
Margaret.
Margaret and Peter Moir
Olive Hill Farm
Margaret River, Western Australia.
www.wn.com.au/olivehill
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Subject: FW: roses
