Monthly Rose Guidelines
| January · Water 3 times a week or more · Carry out summer pruning · Spray fortnightly against black spot, beetles and bollworm. Check for red spider · Fertilise | February · Dead-head and disbud · Water 3 times a week · Fertilise · Spray fortnightly against black spot, beetles and bollworm | March · Spray fortnightly against black spot, beetles and bollworm · Dead-heading will encourage flowering until winter · Water deeply at least twice a week · Fertilise |
| April · Dead-head · Water twice a week in cooler weather · Feed for the last time until July · Spray fortnightly against black spot, beetles and bollworm | May · Dead-head · Water twice a week · Spray if necessary | June · Transplant roses if necessary · Water once a week but complete before noon · Leave old flowers on bushes – i.e. do not dead-head · No fertilising or spraying required. |
| July · Transplant roses if necessary · Water once a week | August · Prune this month · Feed after pruning and water in well. · After pruning, spray bare stems to kill insect eggs and fungus spores · Loosen the soil. Apply fertiliser and add a 5-8cm layer of mulch · Increase watering to twice a week | September · Pinch-prune about a third of the shoots · Increase watering to at least twice a week · Fertilise · Spray fortnightly against aphids, thrips, bollworm and powdery mildew. If you drench now with Koinor, this will last until winter and will eradicate aphids |
| October · Pick blooms. Dis-bud · Fertilise · Increase watering to three times a week – water deeply · Spray fortnightly against powdery mildew, aphids, beetles and bollworm | November · Water 3 times a week or more · Spray fortnightly against black spot, aphids, beetles and bollworm. Check for red spider · Continue dis-budding and deadheading · Fertilise | December · Spray fortnightly against black spot and insects. Check for red spider · Continue dis-budding and dead-heading · Water 3 times a week or more · Fertilise |
