Scents from the rose garden filling the air as you walk by... it's a lovely summer scent that you can enjoy every year. Many gardeners know that the rose is referred to as the queen of all flowers, and you can see the history in the rose by traveling back in time to Europe. The rose is a plant whose scent predominates the historical gardens all over the world. Historical gardens in Europe include the use of Roses, Peonies, Honeysuckle, and a few other strongly scented plants. The rose creates the feeling of royalty, color, and elegance all in the same instant
The rose bush is a perennial that will fill your garden space without much added work.
In planning a rose garden, you might have the option to plant roses that are bare root. What are bare root roses? Bare root roses are plants that you will dig up from your family or friend's house and bring back to your own garden. The plant that you dig up without bringing the soil that the plant lived in to your garden is a bare root plant. Here, we are going to discuss more about bare root roses, and how to plant them for your rose garden success.
Bringing the bare root plant back from the store, your friends or from your supplier, you should soak your bare root plants in a bucket of water overnight before planting. In planning your rose garden, you can dig your hole for your new plant, loosing the soil where you will place your new rose bush. Using the soil that you loosen in the hole, pile or mound it in the middle of the hole to support the plant during and after planting.
Placing your bare root plant in the hole, center it on the mound of dirt and back fill around the plant. Do not pack in the soil, but loosely back fill the soil around the plant to an inch above where planted in the soil before. You can tell how far the plant was in the soil earlier by the green on the stalk of the plant. Water the rose bush once again with ample amounts of water.
After watering your rose bush well, cover the soil with mulch to hold moisture. The mulch around the rose should not actually touch the thick stalk of the plant, but instead be a half-inch to an inch from the stalk. Watering your rose bush at least once a week, for the first month after planting, will bring the first breath of success in your new rose garden.
Rose Garden Tips...
The rose garden ultimately is a get away for you and your thoughts any time of the day. You can plan and create a rose garden of your own that will take away the stress of your day with its beauty. The rose garden that you love and admire so much can be yours if you follow a few easy steps in planning and in raising your roses.
If you have never raised roses before, we have a few great tips and ideas lined up for your reference. One important thing to remember is that roses do love the sunshine. In the garden that is full sun areas only, you will have great success in growing roses. If you have a partially shaded area where you want to grow new rose bushes, you may want to consider moving your plants to where your roses will receive at least six hours of sun a day or more.
When first planting or transplanting a rose bush, water will be an important factor. You will need to water your roses at least once a week as your rose establishes itself. The soil that you plant your rose in does need to drain well, this is important. The rose bush will not thrive in the area moist all of the time. Refraining from planting your rose in an area that fills with puddles will aid in your successful rose gardening.
As your roses grow and change every year, you will need to pick off the dead head flowers. Picking off the flowers that are dead will bring new life to your bush. If you find black spots on the leaves of your rose bush, this will keep your plant from suffering and from any disease from spreading over the entire plant. Treating your plants at the first sign of Japanese beetles is going to save their luscious green leaves from these tiny creatures.
In the spring of the year, you will need to prune your rose bush. The blackened portions of your rose bush need pruned away to promote additional new growth over the entire plant. While pruning your plant in the spring season, pull weed starts so that your plant is not in competition for water or soil nutrients over the growing seasons.
As you plan your rose garden and begin placement, planting roses of the same color next to each other will enhance the over all look of the rose garden. Using too many flowers in one area though, can make the entire rose garden look more jumbled than a wave of color.
One last thing for you to think about when creating and planning a rose garden is to remember to test your soil. Soil testers are widely available and relatively inexpensive. When testing your soil, your pH level is going to be most important for success with roses. A pH level of 5.5 to 6.6 is the ultimate situation for raising a rose garden of your own.
Gordon Goh is author of the free, informative website Simply Flower Garden offering quality useful tips for flower garden lovers.
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 | Rose Tree Tom Thumb Tiny Pink Miniature - $ 69.95
When will you be mine? Easy enough - when you fall in love with this rounded green mound-of-a-tree covered with perfectly pointed pink buds. Clusters of miniature pink roses hold their color to the very very finish. Lots of glossy leaves. Blooms profusely throughout the spring, summer and early fall. Keep outdoors and protect in winter. 8 years old. 16" tall. Suitable 10"x8" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $5.95. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $16.95
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 | Rose Tree Tom Thumb Cherry Red Miniature - $ 69.95
When will you be mine? Easy enough - when you fall in love with this rounded green mound-of a-tree covered with perfectly pointed cherry red buds. Clusters of miniature red roses hold their color to the very very finish. Lots of glossy glossy leaves. Blooms profusely throughout the spring summer and early fall. Keep outdoors and protect in winter. 8 years old. 16" tall. Suitable 10"x8" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $5.95. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $16.95.
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 | Mini Rose Tiny Red - $ 29.95
This tiny red macro mini rose is a bloom machine in miniature growing only to 9" tall. It has light green tiny leaves with a compact uniform growth habit. This disease resistant variety produces well shaped blooms up to 1/2" diameter. It has a delicate red color, with soft petals. Their color softens just before petal drop as the tree readies itself for another flush of blooms. It flowers profusely from spring through early fall. Keep outdoors and protect in winter. 5 years old. 7" tall. Suitable 6.5"x4.5" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $3.50. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $10.95
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 | Mini Rose Tiny Pink - $ 29.95
This Tiny Pink macro mini rose is a bloom machine in miniature growing only to 9" tall. It has light green tiny leaves with a compact uniform growth habit. This disease resistant variety produces well shaped blooms up to 1/2" diameter. It has a delicate bright pink color, with velvety petals. Their color softens just before petal drop as the tree readies itself for another flush of blooms. It flowers profusely from spring through early fall. Keep outdoors and protect in winter. 5 years old. 7" tall. Suitable 6.5"x4.5" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $3.50. Shipped via UPS 2-3 days - $10.95.
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 | Mini Rose (charming parade) - $ 24.95
This Charming Parade hybrid is a bloom machine in miniature growing only to 12" tall. It has dark green glossy small leaves with a compact uniform growth habit. This disease resistant variety produces well shaped blooms up to 1" in diameter. It has a vivacious red to bright red color, with velvety petals and a fine sweetbriar scent. Their color softens just before petal-drop as the tree readies itself for another flush of blooms. It flowers profusely from spring through fall. Keep cool in winter such as a north windowsill where it can develop blooms or outdoors. 3 years old 8"-10" tall Suitable 4.5" x 6.5" humidity tray is recommended. To purchase add $2.95. Shipped UPS 2-3 days - $10.95
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 | William Baffin - $ 17.95
The William Baffin rose is a Canadian Explorer rose with glossy light green foliage, blooming from early to mid July until frost. It is an unsented rose which can grow to a height of 7 ft. William Baffin roses are vigorous and disease-resistant. It is one of the hardiest and most useful roses for northern gardens.
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 | Zephirine Drouhin - $ 17.95
The Zephirine Drouhin rose has a fragrance which fills the air with each large bloom. It prospers in alkaline soil, pollution, and shade. It's also a beautiful rose, opening large, sweetly fragrant, deep rose flowers (on nearly thornless stems) throughout the season. Zephirine Drouhin roses are perfect for covering a wall or climbing over an arch. The coppery-purple new growth is a vivid contrast.
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 | John Franklin - $ 17.95
The John Franklin rose is a compact, bushy shrub with deep red, semi-double flowers that are cupped, fringed and displayed in very large clusters. This is a non-stop bloomer from summer through frost. John Franklin roses are disease resistant and exhibit a dark green foliage. This rose is in the Explorer series.
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 | Nearly Wild - $ 17.95
The Hearty Wild rose is a hybrid. It is beautiful and tough. Hearty Wild roses have are a bushy, hardy, and highly attractive shrub that grows 2' to 3' tall. The large, single-form pink flowers bloom recurrently through the season. The flowers are sweetly fragrant.
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 | New Dawn - $ 17.95
The New Dawn rose is a strong grower and is unusually hardy and disease resistant. 'New Dawn' has long been a favorite climber. New Dawn roses have double pink, fragrant flowers that fade to soft pink are carried over a long season. It has healthy, dark green disease resistant foliage and is a rose with few faults and a long flowering season, even carrying a few blooms in the winter. It blooms spring and repeats in the summer. The New Dawn was a World Fereration of Rose Society Hall of Fame inductee in 1997.
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 | Angel Face - $ 17.95
The Angel Face rose has a beautiful and well balanced Old Rose scent, the quintessential rose fragrance. It was an AARS winner in 1969. Angel Face roses have ruffled lavender pink blossoms and beautiful buds .It has a strong, old fashioned fragrance, very pleasant as a cut flower. The plant doesn't grow very tall; it averages around 2-3' tall.
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 | Iceburg - $ 17.95
The Iceberg rose has plenty of long, cool-white buds that open as large, double roses on this Floribunda. The light green glossy foliage makes a perfect backdrop for these clean white blooms. For forty years Iceberg has been the standard against which many roses are measured. That's because the plant produces masses of icy white high-centered blossoms continuously from frost to frost, Iceberg roses are a World Federation of Rose Societies Hall of Famer inducted 1983.
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 | Blaze - $ 17.95
The Blaze rose is a low maintenance rose that has pure red flowers. Blaze roses provide continuous bloom through fall.It has a mild fragrance with an average diameter 3". The Blaze climbing rose repeats its bloom again later in the season.
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 | Bonica - $ 17.95
The Bonica rose was voted the World's Favorite Rose in 1997 by the World Federation of Rose Societies, and an All America Winner in 1987.The Bonica deserves the acclaim. Bonica roses are easy to grow , and are very colorful and disease resistant. This landscape rose can be planted as a hedge, specimen, or focal point.
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 | Carefee Delight - $ 17.95
The Carefree Delight rose is a delightful shrub rose that is very free flowering with vivid pink blooms. It has deep green, glossy leaves with a rich maroon fall color and lots of rose hips in the fall. Carefree Delight roses are one of the most popular and widely grown landscape shrub roses. It has a rugged Minnesota hardiness. AARS winner 1996.
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 | Carefree Beauty - $ 17.95
The Carefree Beauty rose has an open bloom and is light Rose Bengal color which ages lighter. The pleasant fragrant flowers are followed by round-ovoid orange hips. the plant is vigorous, bushy, well-clothed with large, leathery dark green foliage. Carefree Beauty roses can be used wherever a small ever-blooming shrub is required or it lends itself for use as a bedding plant of for use in combination with other plants as herbaceous perennials or bedding plants.The plants are winter-hardy. It is a Dr Buck rose.
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 | Knock Out - $ 17.95
The Knock Out rose is a glowing example of disease resistance at its best. The cycle of bloom and growth provides a continuous show of color from spring until late fall. This maintenance free, flowering shrub thrives in all climates with a petal count of 5 to 7. The deep, almost fluorescent cherry red blooms give off a light tea rose fragrance. Clusters of 3 to 15 flowers bloom alongside glossy foliage tinged in eggplant purple with a swirl of burgundy. It is an AARS winner.
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 | Seafoam - $ 17.95
The Seafoam rose is great as a mounding ground cover or small climber. It is very winter hardy, and has good disease tolerance. Seafoam roses have small glossy foliage and white blooms that will add a nice contrast in any landscape.
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 | Chuckles - $ 17.95
The Chuckles rose is a hardy Canadian-bred shrub that can be grown as a small climber or pruned as a bush. Chuckles roses bloom in clusters.The double fuchsia blooms are 2╜" across and quite fragrant. It will grow 5' to 6' tall, with yellow-green foliage. It will repeat its bloom again later in the season.
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 | Rose of Sharon - Aphrodite - $ 17.95
The Aphrodite Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Aphrodite' bears dark hollyhock-like rosy-pink flowers with deeper red eyes from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. It has a long, early summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. It is an excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups, or used as a specimen. The plant is very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.
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 | Rose of Sharon - Diana - $ 17.95
The Diana Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus Diana, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Diana' bears whiteflowers with yellow stems from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. Long, early-summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. Excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups or used as a specimen. Very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.
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 | Rose of Sharon - Lucy - $ 17.95
The Lucy Rose of Sharon, Hibiscus syriacus Lucy, is an upright, deciduous shrub that is a vigorous, erect, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 8-12' tall. This shrub may also be trained as a single trunk tree or espalier. Leaves are diamond-shaped, dark green, slightly palmate and toothed. 'Lucy' bears double red-pink flowers from late summer until mid-fall. This plant really requires no pruning, unless you need to remove a dead or damaged branch. It has a long, early summer to fall bloom period. This cultivar is a sterile triploid that produces very few if any seed pods. It is an excellent flowering shrub that may be massed, planted in groups, or used as a specimen. The plant is very tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Larger flowers may be obtained by pruning back hard to 2-3 buds in early spring. Otherwise, prune to shape.
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 | The Fairy - $ 17.95
The Fairy rose has hundreds of shell pink blooms that appear on a virtually foolproof shrub. It has been popular since 1932. Fariy roses have spreading pyramidal clusters of blooms and have fern like leaves that are disease proof. The great shrub qualities and appealing blooms give The Fairy rose a special magic.
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 | Desert Rose - Large (Adenium Obesum) - $ 59.95
Native to East Africa and relative of the Plumeria. Small succulent tree that grows only about 8ª tall in the wild, has fleshy leaves and forms a very bulbous base. Produces exotic 2" pink and white, open-trumpet shaped flowers throughout the year in full sun. Needs little water during winter. All plant nuts love these. 8 years old 12" tall Suitable 6" x 8" humidity tray is recommended. . To purchase add $3.50. Shipped UPS 2-3 days - $16.95.
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 | Gothic Rose Arch 4'7"W X 8'5" H - $ 89.00
Grab a tape measure, hammer, and screwdriver and you are all set to put together this Gothic Arch. 15" of this arch will be firmly anchored into the ground for stability. Simply place arch in desired location and mark leg positions on the ground. Remove arch and drive hole maker to indicated depth. Insert legs into holes and push home. Firm earth around the legs and your arch is secure for years of use. Helpful hint: may be found easier to assemble horizontally on its side and then carefully stand it upright to install.
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 | Round Rose Arch 3'.3"W X 7'6" H - $ 69.00
Easy to assemble with one person with just a hammer, screwdriver, and tape measure. Helpful hint: may be found easier to assemble horizontally on its side and then carefully stand it upright to install. 15" inches of this arch will be securely anchored into the ground leaving 7' 6" above ground to the center of the arch.
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