On 15/03/2014 17:01, Frank Booth wrote:
After this comparitively recent dey spell, is it necessary to be watering my
bare root roses, planted last December and those ones planted from
containers just a few weeks ago? The soil is already beginning to look dry
on the surface anyway.


The answer is Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
but use a bucket and give them enough to go down to the bottom of the
planting hole you dug.
Depending on your soil then half to a whole bucket each week should be
OK for a few weeks.