Pruning

Along with the landscape gardening we’d been doing I also needed to get some pruning done. The gorgeous red rose that grows up the front of the house had already showed us its first flush of colour. If we dead head it, we will definitely get another show of beautiful red blooms, so I got on with that.

However the delicate white rose that climbs up the wall by the steps was struggling to produce any blooms, as I had yet to prune it at all this year, so I focussed on that next. I needed to be quite thorough, getting rid of all the dead wood and any spindly branches

I do love all our different roses, and I’m learning about what they like, and when they like it, more and more every year we are here.