What to do in the garden for June with Pugh's Garden Village
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Our monthly column from Roger Crookes, the garden expert at Pugh's Garden Centre, gives us his top tips for growing beautiful roses.
There is something about a sunny day in June, when all the Roses start popping out in flower; it tells me that summer really is here; and to be honest some Roses have been in flower for a couple of weeks already because of our exceptionally warm spring. Here are my ‘3 of the best’ top tips for beautiful Roses
The right Food
We all need food, and Roses will love some Rose fertilizer scattered over the soil surface a couple of times through spring and summer, this can encourage more and more flowers and healthy new growth.
Bark mulch
My ‘Beloved’ and I went down to Roath Park in Cardiff, back in March; and while I was wandering among the Daffodils, like a modern day Mr. Wordsworth, I spotted hundreds of freshly pruned Roses, which had been surrounded with a thick layer of bark mulch. Mulching around Roses (and other shrubs) is a good idea if you want to keep weeds at bay and hold on to some moisture in the soil. It is not too late to add a bark mulch to your soil surface, and it can help your plants keep on performing well until autumn.
Enjoy the sights and smells!
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but sometimes we are so busy and preoccupied with the demands of modern life that we can forget to ‘slow down and smell the roses’.
This is the whole point with growing plants, we can be drawn into their world of carefree colour, textures and fragrance. Plants seem to have no agenda other than to clean our air, look after our environment and be perfect purveyors of pleasure and relaxation. Millions of people all around the world have rediscovered the ‘power of plants’ over recent years and a warm evening in June is the perfect time to try it!
Now is a very good time to see, smell, and buy Roses from Pughs, because you can see the colour and smell the fragrance of the plants as they are coming into flower, rather than relying upon the description on a label.
Make sure you put plenty of compost in the soil / pot as you plant them (yes you can grow them in a large pot, for several years).
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