Tips for fall rose 🌹 care! 🛑Stop deadheading & fertilizing - we don’t want to encourage new growth going into winter. Focus on light maintenance pruning only. Avoid hard pruning, as cutting roses now can stimulate tender new growth that may be damaged by winter freezes. Save major pruning for late winter or early spring, once the plant is fully dormant. • Remove overgrowth from Climbing roses and tie canes securely to supports to prevent top-heavy branches from breaking in wind or frost. • Lig

Did you know the act of ‘deadheading’ spent flowers has many benefits to your plants? I started doing this with my calendula a few years ago and it really improved my production. When you deadhead, you snip off the dying flowers just below the base. This allows the plant to focus its energy on more blooms and makes the growing season more abundant and last longer. Towards the end of the growing season I will leave the spent flowers on my calendula so it can go to seed and self sow itself for the