Diarmuid Gavin: Get Valentine’s ready by showing your roses some love this February
From the best rose varieties to top pruning tips, here is my guide to these wonderfully fragrant florals
With a little care, roses will reward you with beautiful and fragrant blooms.
It’s Valentine’s Day next week and florists will be doing a roaring trade in roses. What may give more lasting pleasure, however, is a gift of a rose bush.
Roses are sometimes considered tricky, prone to disease, requiring complicated pruning and best left to experts. However, breeders have worked hard to produce disease-resistant varieties that won’t require spraying and with a little care, will reward you with beautiful blooms.
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