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Allotment owner, professional gardener and former grower of royal roses at Buckingham Palace. 🌹
Senior Gardener at Grosvenor Estates London.
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There are surface feeder roots across the rootball of the tree, not just at the drip-line. These nutrients will be cooperated into the soil and feed the tree.
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Wow that does seem very early
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They are, but they are plenty of surface roots behind them that need protecting from compaction.
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It wouldn’t do any harm. A healthy tree, with a good supply of water and nutrients, is much stronger and can naturally fight off diseases.
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You’re welcome, that looks amazing well done!
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I one of ours almost ready to open on Wednesday. I’m hoping on Monday morning I will be greeted by it’s happy face 😂
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Well done, we need more people like you in this world.
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That’s a good description 😂
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Don’t try and be someone you’re not, people like reality over a false idea.
Oh… and lots of pictures, people love pictures even when reading blogs
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Beautiful 😍
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Meanwhile this Cordyline has grown this tall 😳
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Looks great.
Is that lawns or pathways between the beds?
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Depends on the specific shrub rose. Species ones generally should be left alone and only managed. But modern shrub roses can be pruned by third to keep them contained.
Our ones growing intensely so if we didn’t reduce their height they would take over and be one big mass of thorns.
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Also have been using the staggered pruning technique, where you prune the roses higher as you move back further into the bed. This allows more flowers to be seen by those walking past.
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Removing crossing stems is very important to stop the damaged caused by rubbing you can see below. This damage will allow more disease into the stems, killing them off.
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You’re welcome ☺️
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Beautiful, here’s one of mine from this week.
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Fantastic picture
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*Grumble Grumble*
Who ever thinks it’s a good idea to use wire to tie a rose 😩
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Firstly to help people recognise them when they are out visiting parks and gardens, but mostly because they have certain maintenance requirements that need to be done now to make sure they flower next year. I talk about planting them, I’ll do that in an article in September.
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No problem, glad it made you feel better
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Thanks ☺️