Talkback: Five ways to grow better roses

You must have read my mind. This is the first year I have grown roses and was just wondering should I stake them and also how to take a cutting. I don't know a great deal about roses having concentrated mostly on veg - just dabbled with flowers - you know the normal ones to keep the garden looking cheerful and covering up the summer weeds!
Thank you for the timely advice.
June

Very useful info as usual, I now keep your advice/tips in a calender of folders in the local Folders area of Outlook Express. Keep the advice coming, its all excellent stuff.

my dog rose flowered last year it also had a baby but this year nothing not even a bud i have had alot of whitefly and only been treating them with water and removing by hand as i have quite a few ladybird now and dont want to discourage them.