Roses pruning

Canes with discolored or dead areas. Cause Cankers. A number of fungal cankers attack roses. Pruning off and destroying diseased canes is the best approach to this problem. 

What is the clinical risk associated with rose pruning An overenthusiastic or careless gardener could accidentally suffer a puncture wound from a rose thorn. This might happen regularly for a keen gardener. Potentially an individual could develop an infection in the wound and even septicaemia as a result. This could lead to death, a catastrophic event. When this is put into a risk matrix, i.e. a frequent likelihood and catastrophic severity, it is likely that the result will be evaluated as high risk. 

Today the walk up from New Eltham station to the Chantry is sunny, the suburban gardens bright with well-pruned roses and bedding plants laid out by ruler. Somehow the drone of a lawn-mower is as peaceful as the hum of bees in a meadow. When I reach the Chantry, the trees, which in my memory are hedges no higher than my head, hold the house and workshop in thick shadow. And when Uncle Gareth leads me into the house itself, the shadows are thicker still. 

Well-rotted manure can be dug into the soil or spread over it as a mulch, especially if it contains plenty of straw. Don t let it touch living plant stems. The main use for manures is in the vegetable garden, on hungry crops such as potatoes, zucchini, pumpkins, squashes, tomatoes, and brassicas. They also make a good topdressing for roses that are pruned hard every year, and for herbaceous plants, applied every two or three years. 

You can ask for advice on regular pruning requirements when buying your plants. But generally speaking, it is safe and often beneficial to prune hard those trees and shrubs that put on more than 12 in (30 cm) of growth in a season—this includes the modern bush roses, such as hybrid teas and floribundas, as well... 

Control Usually not necessary prune galls from roses or shrubs and destroy. 

The pressed juices of apples, pears, cherries, prunes, peaches, red and black currants, gooseberries, blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, rose-hips and rhubarb are used for the production of fruit wines. 

Damascenes have a heavy, narcotically spicy scent, with undertones reminiscent of blackcurrants and prunes. The two enantiomers together amount at most to 0.15% by weight in rose oil, but they contribute decisively to its base note. Interesting is damascene s very low scent threshold of 0.009 ppb. Rose oxide and the rose ketones have subsequently been discovered in a whole range of aromas, for example in the bouquet of several wine varieties. 

Jasmine Jonquil Lavender Rose Violet Mimosa Tangerine Verbena Vetivert Violet Watercress Grape Melon Peach Pineapple Prune Raspberry Strawberry ... 

---