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How to plant a bare-root rose

By Gardeners' World on 20/07/2011 16:20:19

Planting bare-root roses during the dormant season allows the plants to establish quickly because this is when the soil is moist. Bare root plants are available to buy in winter and are more economical than planting pot-grown roses if you need lots


How to plant a rambling rose

By Gardeners' World on 20/07/2011 16:26:36

Chris Beardshaw demonstrates how to plant a rambling rose, offering tips on how to select the perfect rose, pruning and training.summerMore advice on growing rosesPruning a rambling rosePlanting a bare-root rosePruning shrub rosesPlanting a rose


Restios

By Gardeners' World on 20/10/2011 13:35:51

crowned with chestnut-brown seedheads.Rhodocoma giganteaThis plant produces clusters of brown flowerheads in summer. Height 80cm.Thamnochortus rigidusRestios do best in well-drained acidic soil in a sunny, south-facing sheltered spot. Coming from South


Nectaroscordum of the gods

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 05/05/2009 18:04:09

A few weeks ago I wrote about the redesign of part of my garden. It's going well — thank you for asking. One of the plants I mentioned was Nectaroscordum siculum, which I think merits a blog of its own, as it's one of my very favourite plants


Poppies and suchlike

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 16/06/2009 15:36:24

, as afternoon fades to evening, their hold on life loosens and the petals tumble to the ground.However, be not downhearted, for the central seedhead is left behind and that looks almost as gorgeous: a glaucous bluey-green, it adds an architecture to borders way


Saving foxglove seeds

By Kate Bradbury on 02/07/2010 17:01:47

into their many nectaries. I wondered what colour this parent plant would be, praying it would be white, or at least purple, but definitely not 'apricot'.I finally planted it out in January when the topsoil arrived. Normally I wouldn't recommend jolting a plant


Late-summer colour

By Gardeners' World on 20/10/2011 13:33:04

. They're reliable and trouble-free plants.Phlox paniculataFor a zing of blood-orange, there's little to beat heleniums, whose daisy-like flowers are loved by bees for their nectar. After flowering, the seedheads are attractive well into autumn


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