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All tools should be kept in good order. Secateurs, saw, and spade should be sharp and clean. There should be at least two pairs of secateurs, so that one can be spared for sharpening. Hoses should be kept under cover when not in use; they will then last for fifteen to twenty years instead of three or four years if left out in the sun and frosts. A couple of good sprinklers, a spade, and a single-prong cultivator are indispensable. A fork is seldom used.

Winter pruning time is cold and often wet, so it is essential for you to be comfortably clad. Heavy clothing, thick gloves, and gum-boots rob winter gardening of most of its discomforts.

You may possibly have spent more of your leisure hours with your roses than your neighbour, who has just as good a showing of blooms. Actually, you may have been too attentive, but you must realize that you are probably just learning what he has already acquired by years of observation, or that he has that well-known intuition with plants. He has, by some means, come to know the many little things that make a gardener. He may spend his days in office work, but he is instinctively "a man of the soil". As your knowledge grows so will your results improve and your enjoyment increase.