Is there anything better than the scent of a rose on a
warm, still evening in your garden?
All good things come at a price. Roses – like beautiful ladies – need
‘care’. Frequent pruning, feeding,
watering and spraying will bring out the best in them. To prolong the flowering season from May to
December, roses must be watered frequently during hot and dry periods, fed
every week and beautified daily.
Grow bush roses in ‘tubs’, climbers up ‘obelisks’
(three pieces of stick) and let ramblers roam free. Prune bush and climbers as
if they belong to your neighbour and you hate them. Just lop 10 metres off your ramblers now and
then. Try ‘Lidl’ rose fertilizer or the
blue granules from the local co-operativa –both cheap and very effective.
Fuchsias love the cool winters and warm summer of the
Beiras. Like roses, fuchsias must be
pruned hard each year (unless you want a three metre plant), kept in dappled
shade, fed weekly and watered daily in summer.
(Trailing plants in hanging baskets feed twice a week and water twice a
day). Results are spectacular and you assume ‘professional status’ with your
friends in the first year of cultivation.
Just noticed a lonely green fly climbing up a rose but
– must dash, and deal with immediately-
Back soon
Stuart
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