Hello and welcome to the BBC Gardener's World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team here at the magazine.

Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favourite experts.

Welcome to this episode from the BBC Gardner's World Live show. I'm Kevin, the editor of BBC Gardner's World

magazine, and in this episode, I got the pleasure of been joined by the nation's head gardener

himself, Monty Don. In this episode, Monty shares his wealth of knowledge on one of the nation's

favourite flowers, roses. We dive into his gardening experiences at Longmeadow,

discussing everything from the recent revamp of his cottage garden

to techniques for planting and pruning.

He also talks us through the best practices for growing roses in containers,

tackling common issues like Blacksp Spot, and ensuring your roses thrive

for years to come.

Hello, Monty.

It's good to see you.

Well, it's very, very nice to be here.

How are you, Monty?

How's that?

How's the garden?

Well, the garden's looking very good this morning.

I have to say, much as I love you all, and I want to be here, I had to tear myself away from the garden to come here this morning. It was one of those moments when everything just was looking perfect, and there were a few things to plant, and I had just for five minutes, thought, oh, I could spend the day doing this and that, and then suddenly I remembered I had to be here. But yeah, it's been fine, it was looking. Now, we were literally, we were just looking at you,

were showing me pictures of the cottage garden and the roses there,

and we are going to spend the time we have together talking about roses.

They're often said to be the nation's favourite flower,

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