ROSES are one of the most beautiful flowers you can find in a garden, and gardening guru Monty Don has shared advice on how to ensure they continue to grow throughout the season.
Monty, who lives and works at his Longmeadow garden in Herefordshire where BBC Gardeners’ World is filmed.
In his blog last year, Monty shared his best tips for gardeners growing roses, with plenty of advice for the month of June.
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He writes: “It is impossible to celebrate June without speaking of roses. This is their time.
“The secret of keeping any rose flowering as long as possible is to dead-head daily.
“Do not just pull off the spent petals but use secateurs and cut the spent stem right back to the next leaf or below it, however far down that is.”
Also in Monty’s advice for what to do in the garden in June, he suggests starting a vegetable garden from scratch, removing the smallest fruit from trees, pruning wisteria and early flowering shrubs, trimming verticals and box hedges, grass cutting, and sowing biennials.