- Growing Roses From Seed The Simple Way There’s a simple way and a harder way(s) to grow roses from seed. This is all about the simpler way. I won’t go into the transferring pollen and details of getting a rose to set seed (many roses will do it naturally) on this page but what to do once you see that big red rose ...
- Controlling Black Spot In The Home Garden Using Organic Techniques To begin with, that black spot disease you see on your roses (Diplocarpon rosae) is a fungus disease. You know you have it by the light spot it creates on the leaf – an initial yellowing of the leaf in a spot approximately one-half inch across. This initial yellow spot can occur on either side of ...
- Why Growing Long Stem Roses Won’t Work In The Home Garden Growing long stem roses is something you can do in your home garden but you might find it a bit time-consuming. It also depends on the weather (which is why most long-stemmed roses are grown in greenhouses). Grading Long Stem Roses Long stem roses are graded according to the stem length and the bud size. The longer and ...
- Simple Rose Pruning Guidelines Guaranteed To Help You Rose pruning, particularly that concerning the popular hybrid tea roses, is not the black magical art that many rose growers would have us believe. A rose is a woody plant and it follows the same simple rules as any other woody plant when it comes to pruning. Rule One The first rule is that pruning stimulates growth. When ...
- The Meaning of Rose Colors For The Wayward Lover The meaning of rose colors is a mixed-up bit of legend and lore and confused unbelievably by the Internet. Here is a brief summary of those colors with hopes that you print it out and send it (along with the flowers) to the person you’re trying to communicate with. This will eliminate any confusion if the ...
- How You Can Succeed Growing Beautiful Miniature Roses Growing miniature roses indoors is one of those things that are often “forced” upon us by well-meaning friends or relatives who come bearing mini roses as gifts. I mean, “What do you do with this thing once they’ve left?” The Obvious But Least Popular The obvious answer is to chuck it out the door or give it to ...
- Seven Steps For Growing Hybrid Tea Roses in Containers Growing hybrid tea roses in containers is as easy as growing them in the garden if you pay attention to these rules: 1) Use a good quality soilless mix. Do not use regular soil as it will compact and your small feeder roots will suffer. When they suffer, so does your rose. 2) Use the same soil ...
- How To Keep Your Roses Alive Over Winter Wintering hybrid tea roses can be a frustrating affair if you’re trying to grow them traditionally with their bud unions only two inches below the surface. At this depth, the above ground canes and bud union are very prone to freezing and frost damage. So here are four different ways to keep your roses alive over ...
- 6 Practical Tips for Mid-Summer Rose Care You’ll Want To Read When it comes to midsummer rose care, there are several different things to keep in mind. Containers If you had the foresight to plant a rose as part of a container garden, let me remind you that these plants, including the miniatures, are greedy feeders and if you want to see a lot of blooms you will ...
- 2012 All America Rose Winner All-America Rose Selections (AARS) has selected ‘Sunshine Daydream’ as its 2012 AARS Winner, which recognizes new varieties that are not only beautiful in appearance, easy to grow and require minimal care by today’s busy homeowners. The light yellow grandiflora from Conard-Pyle/Star Roses is the first garden rose to win under no spray conditions. It was selected ...
