Planting a bush rose

Give bareroot plants a good start

1 Dig a hole that’s wide and deep enough to take all the roots without cramping them.

2 Add lots of well-rotted manure and fork it in. Add your mycorrhizal fungi now, too.

3 Plant the rose so that the graft where the cultivar joins the rootstock is at soil level, and infill around it with soil and compost.

4 Soak the soil around the roots and cut the rose back to 4in (10cm), then mulch the root area.