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Journal of a rose gardener 12/10/16

This week on journal of a rose gardener...

Climbing Rose, Rambling Rose, Whats the difference?

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Journal of a Rose Gardener 04/10/16

This week on journal of a rose gardener...

Sweet Pea seed sowing, root trainers, cold frames and more

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Journal of a rose gardener 28/09/16

This week on journal of a rose gardener...

The rose breeding process from start to finish, find out more here

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Journal of a rose gardener 21/09/16

This week in Journal of a rose gardener...

Advice on choosing a suitable pot for your plant.

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Journal of a rose gardener 15/09/16

This Month in Journal of a rose gardener...

Autumn Maintenance, helpful wild life, walled areas, customer sugestions... and more

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Country Garden Roses.com Ladies open, crown green bowls competition

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Journal of a rose gardener 20/08/16

This Month in the Journal of a Rose Gardener

Companion Plants, Which to choose, Border Colour, Competing plants, Crowding a rose, Poor air circulation...and much more. 

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Journal of a rose gardener…Focus on Hybrid Teas (10/08/16)

Focus on Hybrid Teas...What are they? Where did they come from? When does it flower? 

Find out now here... 

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The Road to Silver Gilt!

A lot of time and effort went into building our display for Shrewsbury Flower Show 2016, and it really showed! Click "Read More" to see pictures of the beautiful stand created by Jack Kitson and his team, and watch it go through the building process!

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Shrewsbury Flower Show 2016

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Journal of a Rose Gardener...Choosing a rose 03/08/16

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Journal of a rose gardener...Blackspot 25/07/16

Rose Blackspot, appears as soon as leaves appear on roses in early spring, and will continue until the leaves fall in autumn.

It infects the leaves, causing leaves to turn yellow and fall. Small, black lesions may also appear on young stems.

To learn more about combating black spot, click read more...

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Journal of a rose gardener...to pot or not to pot 21/07/16

We are often asked by customers whether they can place the rose which they have chosen in a pot in the garden. If the rose is a patio (for example. Diamond, Elizabeth, Queen Mother) , compact floribunda (Ballerina, Darcy Bussell, Flower Carpet) or compact climber, (Cinderella, Good as Gold, Star Performer) it will be happy in a pot, but hybrid tea roses, larger climbers and ramblers will struggle.

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Journal of a rose gardener...Weeds..tearoom..shows 07/07/16

Its been busy, busy, busy here at the Nursery , so we thought we would give you a heads up on the following, planting pond margins, dealing with problem weeds, deadheading roses...and more

The tearoom is in full swing providing legendary homemade cakes and scones.

We are at Shrewsbury Flower show, Wem Vehicles Of Interest Show, where we would love to meet you and a offer advise.

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Everything Is Looking Blooming Fantastic!

With lots of roses ready to spring into action, we thought we would bring you a list of what's nearly ready in our nursery, so you can brighten up your garden with some early flowering roses, or brighten up someone else's day with a beautiful gift!

Click read more to see the list and pictures...

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