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    Mar 17, 2022 4 minutes

    STEP BY STEP How to plant a potted rose

    Plant a rose bush now, while the weather is mild and planting conditions are best for the plant to establish. It’s tempting to buy a rose in flower but roses planted in summer will need a lot more water to keep them alive. Ideal planting conditions are when the soil is moist, the sun isn’t too strong and there is little wind. Finish with a mulch of rotted manure, to help keep moisture around the rose’s roots and give it a feed that lasts all season.

    1 DIG a hole a little deeper than the rose’s pot and make it wider to

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