Growing Roses
The Easy Way
New varieties and techniques make growing roses fun and exciting.
Add beauty to your landscape with shrub roses.
Use hybrid tea roses for cut flowers to bring indoors.
A containerized tree rose adds color and fragrance to your patio.
Growing Roses in Your Garden
Formal rose gardens are often laid out in geometric shapes.
The most common shapes are rectangular or curves around a centered circle.
One variety of rose in each section. This type of garden needs a lot of space and a lot of planning to pull off. Not many homeowners will attempt this type of rose garden.
Casual gardens allow for growing roses amongst perennials, trees, shrubs and annuals. This is the most popular style. It allows for more variety of plants to fit into a smaller area.
Using RosesMinature roses are great for edging a garden bed. Plant along with low growing perennials or annuals. They are also used potted as decoration on an outdoor patio or porch.Carpet roses spread out over a four to six foot area. They carpet the ground helping to eliminate weeds and soil erosion. Use these on sunny hillsides or areas where you don't want people walking! Climbing roses add visual interest by creating height in a garden. You can use them to cover arbors, climb a fence or other sturdy structure.
Shrub roses are the best roses for beginning gardeners to start with. I recommend someone who is interested in growing roses try the 'Knock Out' rose as their first one. Hybrid Tea roses produce one flower per stem. They are the most well known rose group. They offer flowers in a wide range of colors. Visit Love-of-roses.com for pictures and facts about roses.
Rose CareRoses need a minimum 6 hours of sunlight. The more sun they get, the easier they are to grow. If you try putting them in a spot that doesn't get enough sunlight, you'll end up fighting Mother Nature. She's no fun to fight with. You'll end up getting black spot, fewer blooms and a sickly plant.Pick the right location for your plant and life will be easier for you and the plant.
Growing roses requires proper planting techniques this page gives you tips on selecting the correct location for your roses as well as tips on correct planting depths.
Pruning roses is not as hard as people make it out to be. There are a few general guidelines to follow but they're easy to implement. If you promise not to laugh at my hand drawings then visit the pruning roses page. You'll see how to make a proper cut as well as where to cut to encourage new blooms. Roses need food to stay healthy. They are heavy feeders especially when they start producing flowers. Feed them well and they will reward you with more abundant and bigger blooms. You can use an all purpose fertilizer, but I'd recommend one that is made especially for roses.
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A green thumb is nothing more than hard work and the desire to make things grow.
