Roses

Dig over empty beds, add well-rotted compost and allow to settle before replanting. Lift and store dahlias as they finish flowering. Start preparing a rose bed in an open sunny, well drained site. Where drainage is a problem, add a 15 cm layer of crushed bricks or coarse blue metal at the base of each hole and make beds 30 cm high. When established roses stop flowering and become a mass of dead woods, simply select the best new shoot growing from above stock (usually just above ground level). With pruning saw cut off every part of rose except new shoot; prune to level four buds. You will not kill it: new shoots appear giving a transformed bush. Fertilize well with blood and bone. How to send flowers to philippines in discounted rate through www.philippinesflowersdelivery.com/

Shrubs and trees
Remove spent hibiscus flowers regularly check over deciduous tree before leaves fall, cutting off dead growth. Plants evergreen trees and shrubs if water is available over the first 12 months. Prepare sites, making sure drainage is adequate. Plant at same depth as in container and water in afterwards. Liquid seaweeds is a safe starting fertilizer.

Bulbs
Plant lilies as soon as bulbs are available. Work leaf mold and rotted cow manure into friable lime free soil. Lilies like afternoon protection from sun and a well-drained site. Leave several years before lifting and dividing site. Leave several years before lifting and dividing. Summer bulbs, such as gladiolus, watsonia and galtonia can be lifted and stored. Discard old, dry or diseased bulbs and store healthy bulbs in a dry place.

Lawns
this month is ideal for lawn planting. Preparation is all important. Sow varieties such as Kentucky bluegrass, fine leafedrye glasses, fescues, clovers and bent, as they germinate quickly now. Buffalo couch and Santa Anna couch are best planted late spring.

Established lawn
On established lawns, raise your mower height for winter mowing to 15mm. Lightly fertilize lawn to carry it through winter months.

Planting guide for April
Flowers
Spring flowering annuals e.g. snapdragons, baby blue eyes, mignonette and Virginian stock. Carnation cuttings and divisions from perennials e.g. Shasta and Michaelmas daises. Spring flowering annuals: strelitzia, gonium and geranium cuttings.
Spring flowering annuals early in the month; sweet peas; carnation cuttings; perennials such as delphinium, Russell strain lupins and polyanthus.

Shrubs and trees
Evergreen shrubs and trees, especially those with winter flowers: azaleas, sasanqua and early japonica camellias, daphne, gordonia; particular species Acacia baileyana, Banksia robur.