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

When you’ve decided to create a rose garden within your yard, you’ll first need to decide which type of roses you plan to grow. There are hundreds of different varieties of roses, so it’s almost impossible to grow all of them. If there’s a certain style of rose garden you’d like to create, this will help you decide which types of roses to grow.

A formal rose garden for instance, might have just red roses in it. Or maybe red and white for a bit of extra drama. Wild rose gardens on the other hand, won’t have the plantings laid out too precisely, and there might be a large variety of colors and styles of roses growing in your garden at any given time.
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Garden Tip...

Seeds that are exceptionally fine, like those of Lobelias, Petunias, Ferns, and other very tiny seeds, ought never to be covered deeper than the sixteenth of an inch, with very fine soil sifted on them through a fine sieve; the soil should then be lightly patted down with the back of a shovel. This will prevent the seeds from shriveling before they start to germinate.
~ James Sheehan
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Not only do roses come in many different shapes, sizes and colors, they also come with and without smells. Many new hybrid roses for instance, don’t seem to have much of a smell to them at all. So if you want a fragrant rose garden, you’ll have to be sure you’re selecting rose types which provide enough scent for your liking.

Also realize that roses can be grown as bushes and shrubs of varying heights, small trees, and climbing vines. So this needs to be part of your rose garden planning stages. You wouldn’t want to accidently plant a climbing rose vine in the middle of your yard without a trellis or other support for instance, unless you knew in advance that the vines would creep across the ground and that was the look you intended.

Caring for Your Rose Garden
Roses don’t really need special care, but there are certain types of plant foods, fertilizers, and soil mixes which are specifically designed for planting and growing roses. These supplements make it easy on the beginner gardener, because any soil adjustments needed have already been made, and additional vitamins and nutrients specific to growing roses is already taken care of for you too. In some parts of the country it is essential to make sure your growing environment is just right, so the roses in your garden will be able to live and thrive for years to come. If you want to learn the specifics about doing this preparations yourself in the future though, you’ll find lots of great information around the Web.

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Garden Tip...

Probably the most important matter to be observed in growing house-plants is that of watering them. The cultivator should know just when to water, and to give it where it will do the most good. Amateur florists often exhibit much poor judgment in watering. It is the habit of some to keep the soil about their plants constantly soaked with water, and they wonder why they are not thrifty or healthy. These cultivators do not stop to consider that such treatment is unnatural, and will have an effect contrary to what is desired. There are those who resort to the opposite extreme, and keep their plants all the time in a perishing condition of dryness, which is even worse than if they were watered to death. If we will observe how judiciously Nature distributes the sunshine and shadow, the periodical rains, and the refreshing dews, we will learn an important lesson.
~ James Sheehan
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Like any other plants of course, you’ll need to put your roses in locations of your yard and garden which are appropriate for their specific light and water requirements. Be sure to add a good layer of mulch after you have them planted too, because this will help prevent weeds from cropping up, and it will help your roses maintain moisture in the soil for longer periods of time.

As your roses bloom, you’ll want to keep an eye on them and pluck off any blossoms that have died off. If you pluck these off regularly - this is known as dead heading - the bushes and vines will usually create many more blooms for you throughout the season.

Trimming and pruning your rose bushes will also help encourage them to grow and spread out over time, and we’ll cover some of those specifics in future articles.

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