Category Archives for Roses
Pruning Different Types of Roses
The natural way for most roses to grow is to send up new shoots each year, ideally from or from near the base, and for the old shoots gradually to die back. You can see this happening with wild roses … Continue reading
Pests and Diseases Affecting Roses
Unless you are a masochist, do not spray unless you have to. Choose varieties of rose that are known to be healthy, buy good strong plants, cultivate them well, and their resistance will be that much greater. The only diseases … Continue reading
Routine Care for Your Garden Roses
Immediately after pruning, or at any rate in February or March if you are an early pruner, it is a good idea to spray the dormant roses with a rose fungicide to destroy or at least discourage overwintering disease spores. … Continue reading
Planting Your Roses
Planting Your Roses It is sad but true that roses will live longer and do better if the ground that is to grow them is well prepared beforehand. Sad because it involves digging. Choose a spot for your bed that … Continue reading
The Rose Garden
If you choose your roses wisely, you can have them in flower from April to November, which is eight to nine months of the year. The flowers, from fully double to single and all extremely beautiful, have a wide range … Continue reading
Christmas Roses and Lenten Roses (Helleborus)
Christmas and Lenten roses are closely allied plants belonging to the genus Helleborus. They have no connection of any kind with true roses and get their popular name solely because of the very superficial resemblance of their flowers to single … Continue reading
Successional Planting for Constant Garden Colour
BLOOM AND BLOOM AGAIN If you only have a small space to cultivate, you can make the ground work extra hard. It can be made to produce more than one crop of flowers each year either by successional planting, which … Continue reading
The Rose Garden
The Rose Garden Roses have been so intensively interbred and developed in gardens that a quite bewildering range of types and varieties has developed. Home gardeners, though, can safely think of them under three main headings : the climbers, the … Continue reading
Florist’s Flowers
Florists, the men and women who have cultivated and improved flowers through the centuries, have tended to concentrate on certain genera for which they could create the greatest demand. These florists’ flowers, as they are known, have been developed by … Continue reading
Caring for Roses and Growing Roses in The Rose Garden
Caring for Roses and Growing Roses The Rose Garden Roses have been considered worthy of cultivation for many centuries. They were grown for their beauty about 600 BC, when the poetess Sappho named the rose the ‘Queen of Flowers’, and … Continue reading