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Tips for gardening roses in January
How to care for roses in January
Share it Cool temperate
•Water, deadhead flowers, cutting back to a leaf bud or full leaf.
• Tie in vigorous new shoots on climbers when they develop.
• Feed late in month with a rose fertiliser to prolong flowering.
•Check for aphids, black spot, mildew and rust.
• Summer-prune, giving a light trim.
• Remove suckers coming from below the graft.
Warm temperate
• Regularly deadhead flowers.
•Water plants regularly in prolonged hot dry weather.
• Feed plants late in the month for good autumn flowers.
•Check for any pests.
• Deadhead and lightly trim old fashioned roses, except those that develop attractive hips.
• Remove suckers coming from below the graft.
Inland
• Regularly deadhead flowers.
•Water plants regularly in hot dry weather and mulch.
• Feed plants late in the month for good autumn flowers.
•Check for any diseases.
• Deadhead and lightly trim old fashioned roses, except those that develop attractive hips.
• Remove suckers coming from below the graft.
Tropical/subtropical
• Roses flower during most of the year in warm climates and so need extra care in watering, feeding and mulching.
• Remove and compost weeds, keeping heap covered in rain.
•Check for fungal diseases.
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