Having spoken to your local rose grower and accepted her advice suggesting which particular types of roses will suit your neighborhood and climate, you've made your choices and arrived home with your new rose bushes ready to plant.
As it's Fall, and you had the option of buying either bare-rooted roses or container grown ones, you opted for the bare-rooted roses, because you had more choice and they were marginally cheaper.
You've already selected your site and confirmed that it receives a minimum of 6 hours direct sunlight a day, and the pH balance is ideal for roses because it's between 6.0 and 6.9.
Now you're ready to plant them. The sooner they're in the ground the better. It's never a good idea to have them hanging around too long once you've brought them home. We have the bare-rooted roses standing in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before planting just to make sure they don't dehydrate.
Planting to grow rose or several roses in your garden is a challenging yet fulfilling task. After all, the queen of all flowers is quite a handful, even for the expert gardener. But imagine your house surrounded by beautifully-grafted rose trees, multi-colored flowers, and a delicate blend of scents. Rose gardening is definitely worth all the trouble. In this article, we share with you some of the well-kept yet most effective gardening secrets to plant rose to create your own beautiful vibrant garden.
First things first
• Buy healthy seedlings only from reputable suppliers. If possible, choose bare-root roses, or those that haven't been grafted into a root stock. Look for fresh green stems with no spots and evenly-spaced leaves placed close together.
• Old garden varieties are generally hardier and easier to grow than modern roses.
• Modern hybrids, such as floribundas and hybrid teas, are recommended if you want long-stemmed roses to decorate your home, but they are harder to grow than shrubs and climbers.
• Soak the roses in a compost tea before planting them.
More planting preliminaries
• Check the soil. Planting to grow rose garden should be done on soil that has the right amount of loam and sand. To do this, take a handful of soil and compact it in your hand. If it breaks even before you close your fist, it is too sandy. If it holds while compact, it is too loamy. The perfect soil for your roses should be firm when held, but it should break easily when compacted.
• Avoid planting the roses too closely to bigger plants. Many trees have large root systems and may compete with the roses for nutrients and water in the soil.
• Onion and garlic are great companion plants for roses because they keep pests away.
If you search the Internet for roses and their care, you'll notice a great deal of conflicting advice. Some will advise that growing roses is easy, while others claim the contrary.
So who do you believe - well, me of course!
Seriously, both groups of commentators are right, as far as they go. Growing roses successfully is not difficult if, (and this is a big if) the conditions are suitable for roses - it's as simple as that.
If we attempt to grow roses in a soil that's not suited to growing roses, and we don't take the necessary steps to improve the soil, then of course we're courting disappointment. If we understand what the optimum environment is for our roses, then the closer we can keep to those conditions, the more success we'll have with them. People will go to their local garden center and spend their hard earned money on plants, including roses, and yet they don't really understand what conditions their new purchases require.
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