{"id":142654,"date":"2024-02-16T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/now-valentines-day-is-over-its-time-to-get-serious-with-your-roses\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:11:53","slug":"now-valentines-day-is-over-its-time-to-get-serious-with-your-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/now-valentines-day-is-over-its-time-to-get-serious-with-your-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Valentine\u2019s Day is over, it\u2019s time to get serious with your roses"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nStart with a bare root rose, and prune the plants you already have, and you\u2019ll reap scented rewards by summerA decade ago, when I was first working out how to grow things on my balcony and trying to\u00a0understand the difference between an\u00a0annual and a perennial, rose pruning seemed an impossibility. To\u00a0me it represented everything about the (slightly scary) horticultural old guard that I just could not relate to.\u00a0Foam kneelers! Beige anoraks! Chelsea\u00a0flower show tickets! It all felt\u00a0a\u00a0world away from the straggly mint I was trying to keep alive\u00a0on a\u00a0concrete ledge.Fast forward 10 years and I am now\u00a0the kind of person who fantasises about giving that unloved rose peering over the neighbour\u2019s garden wall a\u00a0good prune. February may be the time when scarlet stems fill up sad buckets in supermarkets and petrol stations (it would be much better if people gave their Valentines seasonal flowers), but for me it\u2019s time for rose planting \u2013 and pruning \u2013 in the\u00a0garden. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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