Day: December 15, 2008

Manipulation part 2

Dear all This picture was taken at the end of January, you can see the development of the early varieties, by now all the ones in the clotch would either just be poking through or some of them would be…

More Manipulating

Hi All Just to follow on from Peter Ramsay point about John Lee and Clives Postle growing using series of mini greenhouses this is my way of getting the late varieties to flower at the same time as the early…

Rules and flower shows

Just got a good book this weekend and this looks like the perfect time to recommend it, given the recent discussion of rules. Check out “Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening” by Aurelia Scott (Hardcover…