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 PROFESSIONAL-GRADE PRUNING SHEARS (WHICH HAVE REMOVABLE BLADES). Image via Wikipedia
Pruning your roses is one of the more important and intimidating tasks that goes with proper rose care. It takes a steady hand and the proper procedure to ensure the best possible growth for your rose bush.
Pruning your roses is basically the act of getting rid of dead and damaged pieces, and teaching the new growth to grow in the correct outward facing direction. That just means that you are training them to grow facing the outside of the shrub or bush. This gives your roses the correct amount of circulating air to thrive in.
Rose pruning isn’t as complicated as some people make it out to be. In fact, there are only a few basic rules. If you keep these in mind whenever you pick up your pruning shears, you’ll be rewarded with beautiful bushes that reflect the care that you put into them.
Rose bushes that are not pruned can grow into large tangled messes with small and inferior blooms. How much you prune depends on what you are trying to accomplish and on how well established the plant is. Continue reading Rose Pruning Basics
For a beginner rose gardener, the first thing he should do is learn how to grow the roses he wants.
You know the saying, “a rose is a rose is a rose…”
… well in gardening terms, this is not true. Some plants are hardy, some are fragile, some may bloom small [...]
Some people learn how to grow roses by going all out, and start by buying several plants to put right into the garden. But what if you could learn rose gardening by a more gradual method? One way of doing this might be to cadge some rose stems from a friend, and see [...]
The beauty of your roses can be easily overcome by diseases and fungi. As roses are more delicate when it is cold, they are more likely to fall to diseases when the seasons turn warmer.
Even if they get through winter relatively unscathed, their weaker immune systems will be more open to the [...]
There are hundreds of types of roses that you can choose from when planting your first rose garden, and each one is beautiful in its own unique way. This is great because you will be able to utilize a very large variety of different types of roses throughout your garden. You can mix [...]
While winter is the season of hibernation and dormancy for your roses, it can spell disaster, if you let it face the season with out taking any precaution.
The tougher varieties like old garden roses and own-root types normally survive through the bitter cold, but the more delicate varieties like hybrid teas and [...]
Why antiques? Antique roses are those breed by species, sports, varieties, or cultivars prior to the first hybrid tea, (LaFrance) in 1867. Some people are not as strict in their interpretation of antique roses as the American Rose Society, and claim any rose 75 years or older as being old.
Why antiques? They [...]
By Kathleen Gresham
The hybrid tea rose might also be called “the flower of lovers.” It makes the perfect long-stemmed rose.
Hybrid teas are the result of combining the tea rose with the hybrid perpetual. Hybrid teas flower repeatedly and can be strong with the proper care.
Choosing a Hybrid Tea Variety
A hybrid tea is an ideal choice to present to the love of your life, a special gift for a mother, or just to display on your tabletop. It will add a touch of elegance to any room even as a lone flower in a vase. There are at least 237 varieties of hybrid teas.
If you worry about thorns, you can choose a thornless variety of hybrid tea. However, some people feel that the thorns add to the artistic charm of the flower. Thorns demand respect and add character the rose plant and flowers.
Caring for New Hybrid Tea Plants
When planting hybrid teas, be sure to take care of your newly acquired plants. You will need to decide what to feed the new plants for endurance and strength and overall health.
Continue reading Want to Grow Hybrid Tea Roses?
Many different rose classification schemes are used worldwide. The most popular is the one proposed by the American Rose Society and the World Federation of Roses. [...]
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