Wintering for your Rose Garden: An Important Fall Routine

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Wintering for your Rose Garden: An Important Fall Routine

Getting roses to over-winter successfully is no small feat if you live in a very cold climate. However, it can be done regardless of where you live, especially if you buy and plant very hardy rose varieties such as Explorer, Parkland and Buck roses. Many of the old fashioned roses will also do quite nicely?there?s a good reason they have been around as long as they have!

The trick to keep roses alive but dormant during the winter is to protect the bud graft from freezing or being damaged. You can do this by planting the bud union deeply when you first plant your roses. Then, after the last rose of summer has fallen from your plants, cut the canes back to the ground and remove all fallen leaves that have any trace of black spot or mildew and burn them.

The second is to add protection to a bud union that is above the ground by bringing in soil from another part of the garden and making a pyramid of soil around the plant to cover the canes after cutting the canes back to 12 to 18 inches above the ground. Called ?hilling? by most rose gardeners, this system works best when you spray the clipped canes with a lime-sulphur and dormant oil combination before you hill them up to defeat problems with fungi.
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Rose Gardening

Rose Gardening

Creating a garden full of beautiful blooming rose bushes, plants or vines is the dream of many gardeners. Roses symbolize love, hope, passion, and a wide variety of other feelings which make these flowers loved by almost everyone.

Growing a rose garden is not too difficult of course, but some people find themselves a bit disappointed in the way their roses grow or bloom througout the year, so they could use a few growing and care tips. Others simply don’t know how or where to get started with creating a rose garden though, so we’ll summarize some of the first steps in that process too.

Planning a Rose Garden
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The Joy of Growing Miniature Roses

The Joy of Growing Miniature Roses

Miniature roses are exactly what they sound like: Miniature versions of real roses. Some people don’t think they’re actually roses, when in fact they are. They’ve just been purposely cultivated to grow much smaller than standard size roses, and taking care of them is very much like taking care of regular sized roses too.

Miniature roses grow much smaller than standard sized rose bushes do, so they’re able to be grown in smaller spaces. The blooms are much smaller too, but they come in a wide variety of colors just as regular roses do, so they’ll fit into any garden design or theme you’d like.

Miniature roses do tend to be much hardier than standard size rose bushes, and they can survive even in very cold weather conditions as long as they have some mulch around the base. Miniature roses also tend to bloom for much longer periods of time, which is one of the reasons they’re so popular in modern gardens.
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Rose Gardens

Rose Gardens

Rose gardens are not as difficult to care for and maintain as many people seem to think. In fact, roses tend to be one of the easier plant species to grow. This is due in large part to the excellent plant stock that growers are now offering for sale. Couple that with the superb plant food and pest control products and you can begin to understand why growing and caring for roses is really quite easy and a lot of fun. Their beauty is unsurpassed as is their fragrance and variety of sizes and colors. Do you know that roses date back to almost 35 million years ago? Setting up and maintaining your roses take a few simple steps to offer year round care.

Good healthy plants ? this is a must. Inspect your roses prior to purchasing and make sure there are no bugs, dead or diseased limbs, and no fungus.

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