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Keep up your fungicide-miticide regimen. Hot weather brings red spider mites, and diseases love cool, humid nights. Spray sucking and chewing insects when you see them.
And don't forget to give away lots of roses. Your family, friends, and the clerk at the post office will love them ... and you!

Cut roses about 1/4 inch above a 5-leaflet, and at an angle. Keep in mind that the new stem that will grow from the leaf axis will almost never be any larger than the cane it's growing on. Cut long stems on your roses, leaving a sturdy cane below so new flowers will have stems thick enough to support those big flowers.

David Austin's Mary Rose is one of the most widely grown English Roses and it is not difficult to see why. It forms a good bushy shrub, that is particularly winter-hardy and blooms with unusual regularity throughout the summer. The flowers are of attractive, loose-petalled formation and of strong rose pink coloring. A first class garden shrub that mixes well with other plants.

The delicious fragrance is of Old Rose character, with a hint of honey and almond blossom.

It was named after Henry V111's flagship when it was recovered from the Solent after more than four hundred years. 5 X 4 ft.

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GROWING ROSES

Bring me all your flowers now,
I would rather have a single rose
from the garden of a friend,
than the choicest of flowers,
when my stay on earth must end.
R.D. Richards

Water, and plenty of it, is vital to roses, and the more you give them, the better they'll perform. Watering should be done at the soil level rather than overhead. Many types of fungus that attack roses love wet leaves, so it's best to keep them dry. As well, fungus spores that may be lurking in fallen leaves or on the soil are easily splashed onto leaves with careless watering. That's not to say that roses can't benefit from overhead watering once in a while, particularly during really hot weather. Just do it early enough in the day so that the foliage is completely dry by sunset.

Water is a valuable comodity these days, so make the most of your watering dollar. Make a soil "basin" around the base of each plant so that water and fertilzer sink into the ground where they benefit the plants, rather than running all over the garden. If drought has been a problem in your area, you might want to consider adding a polymer to the soil. These granules absorb water and give it off as the plants need it. It can cut watering by 50% to 75%. Soil polymers are easily incorporated into existing plantings by making several deep holes with a dowel at the base of each plant. Then spoon about 1/4 teaspoon of the dry polymer into each hole. Water thoroughly and see how moist the soil stays!

I hope you're cutting some of those roses for the house. Nothing is more pleasant than waking up to a fragrant rose by your bedside or enjoying a beautiful bouquet on the kitchen table. Take a container of water into the garden and put the cut stems in water immediately. Then recut the stems underwater once you get into the house. This keeps air from getting into the stem and causing flower droop.

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