Tag: Hayden Foulds

Despite not being the best time of the year for many things, winter is still the best time to plant your roses so they are able to establish well before spring.

One of the most popular types of roses are the mini roses which would be familiar to most gardeners worldwide.

By late summer, I know many people are 'over' roses. Few flowers, no leaves left and just a bunch of sticks in the garden. But is it possible to have a garden of mostly healthy roses for most of the growing season? Yes it is!

It goes without saying there is a wide range of flower colours in roses, perhaps the most of any cultivated plant in the world. But there is one noticeable colour missing: Blue.

In my last column, I described the common diseases that can affect roses in your garden. Now I will talk about some insect and other pests that can affect your roses.

This column I will talk a bit about fertilising roses and what you need to do to have great roses. Fertilising roses is like pruning, it needs to be done to get the best results but if you are a week or two late, it is not the end of the world.

This column, I will talk about some of the common diseases that affect roses and some of the ways you can minimise their appearance in your garden.

In my last column, I covered a few basics on why and how you should prune your roses and also covered how to prune those tricky climbers which can cause a few problems.

July and August are the two main months in New Zealand for pruning roses so my column this time will go over a few general basics plus tell you how to tackle climbing roses.

As I write this, it is Queens Birthday weekend, the last long weekend for some time but also an important part of any rose lover's calendar.