Story Title: Top Rose Tips
Episode: Two
Date: March 13th 2010
Presenter: Kym Syrus

Kim has top rose tips to ensure your roses look great.

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• Leaving old flowers on a bush can often stop the plant from producing new growth and blooms. You can simply break off the old bloom with your hand. This is so easy and also a great way to collect petals for potpourri. Or, use a sharp pair of snips and cut a few leaves below the flower. You'll notice there is often new growth already happening, try to leave most of this behind - they're your next flush of flowers.
• On any flower stem, the top buds, hidden at the base of each leaflet, are always the most active and produce the quickest growth. This vigor gradually slows the further you go down the stem and the buds right at the bottom take much longer to shoot.
• If you love your cut flowers, avoid cutting the stem too long. Try to leave 2 or 3 buds behind on the bush. This will make sure your rose will shoot sooner and produce the next crop of beautiful flowers. 
• Another top rose tip is to make sure your roses are never hungry. The back of most fertilizers say feed in September, December and February, but trust me these hungry creatures need a little bit, more often.
• Always use a well balanced fertilizer that contains Potash – this will give you plenty of flowers and maintain health and vigor!!

For more ideas and tips on growing and caring for roses, grab a copy of The Rose, which is available at all good book stores and through our website.