How to Keep Your Roses Healthy

The most important thing during summer with roses is to dead head them as soon as that first flush of flowers starts to fade. The encouragement of beneficial insects by planting other flowers around your roses will help to encourage this disease and pest resistance. My titchmarsh's trade secret about having good looking roses well it would be the dead heading. I find it one of the most pleasurable occupations in the summer garden. It doesn't take long and when you've been over the bush every three or four days your garden has this sense of renewal every time.