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flower first in June and then produce orange hips. You then have the choice to leave the hips on the bush and enjoy them in the winter, or to deadhead the whole thing and hang on for a few weeks until it flowers again.Alternatively, you can do what I try

are quite big and heavy some sort of staking would be advisable. Keep deadheading through the flowering season and dig up and store the tubers immediately after the first frost. By store I mean put them in a box of dry compost in a shed

, with regular deadheading, keep going until the autumn. Propagation is also quite simple: take cuttings from the non-flowering shoots in the summer.I haven't even started on alpine and annual varieties but must mention D. carthusianorum - a really good perennial

in different levels of grandness. All of them flower like anything in late May and June, but continue flowering intermittently until September if you deadhead them.The first is G. 'Mrs Bradshaw'. It is as red as the blood of young pigeons and looks particularly

to deadhead half of it after flowering so that I would get a second flush around now but got distracted and now it is too late. Oh well, there is always next year.My second mistake was one of omission: there is an area around my pond consisting of a series