“The fleshy roots contain enough moisture and nourishment to see the plant through its early stages of re-establishment”
t was autumn, and I was 14 years old when I planted my first bare-root rose bush on cold Yorkshire clay. How could a few sticks, with a handful of stringy roots, possibly grow into something beautiful – especially after I’d done as the local nurseryman had instructed, and chopped back those sticks to just 8cm after planting? But grow they did, and from that day on
