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Five Essential Considerations in Growing Roses in Pots

Some people would say that growing roses in containers is never easier than just digging a big enough hole into the ground and sticking a rose in it. What’s the use for pots, after all, when planting the roses straight into the ground is a much easier thing to do? Well, as a matter of [...]

Growing Roses from Seed

Pollens and Rose Hips: A Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Roses from Seed It certainly isn’t easy growing roses from seed. Many gardeners, especially beginners, opt for grafting roses on unions instead. But while it may not be the fastest way to grow beautiful rose plants, it is still the most rewarding of all methods of [...]

Step-by-Step Guide to Pruning Climbing Roses

The proper care of roses follows a general standard across all the varieties of what gardeners aptly call the “queen of all flowers.”  Simply put, roses need adequate amounts of sunshine, good soil, the right amount of watering, and some more tender loving care in the form of mulching, feeding, and pruning.  But perhaps, that [...]

Common Rose Diseases

Roses are fairly easy to grow if you have the right conditions for the right care of roses, but rose diseases always seem to come out every now and then.  Indeed, members of the rose family, including roses, apple trees, strawberry bushes, and almond trees (You didn’t know they were members of the same family [...]

Watering Your Roses for Perfect Rose Garden Care

The care of roses is obviously not complete without water.  Water is an essential part of all living beings, and that includes your rose plants.  Without water, your roses will not grow into healthy plants that produce thick and strong stems to support beautiful and long-lasting flowers, even if the soil is at its most [...]

What is the Best Rose Soil Mix?

The right soil mix is key to successful care of roses.  Although there are several other factors that determine the health of a rose plant, a mixture of the right materials in the soil will keep rose garden care quicker and easier.  The best soil for your roses is made up of half organic matter [...]

The Best Roses To Grow

The best roses to grow in your garden are those that require the least maintenance and can resist destruction from outside elements.  Roses may be the “queen of all flowers”, but modern horticulture has produced many hybrids that are as beautiful and fragrant as the classic old roses, but are resistant to pests, diseases, and [...]

Black Roses

For centuries the colour black has been associated with death, decay and mystery; the black plague, the black underworld and the ‘black sheep of the family’.  When we think of the rose, we imagine beauty, health and romance, a symbol of love and warmth. The Black rose is a mix of two opposites combining the [...]

The White Garden Rose

The elegant and majestic white garden rose is a symbol of purity, innocence and secrecy.  Unlike its cousin the red rose; myth states the white rose was stained with blood or made to blush from a kiss. It was the white rose, not the red rose that was originally the symbol for true love. However, [...]

Rose Tree Garden

If you love roses, you will love rose tree gardens. A Rose tree garden is simply beautiful. However there is no such thing as a rose tree that you plant in the ground like an apple tree and watch grow. A rose tree is an accumulation of roses that are grafted together to form the [...]