101 Tips for Growing and Enjoying Your Own Great Rose Garden

Table of Contents:

Introduction...3
Choosing the Right Roses for Your Garden...5
Common Types of Roses...6
Planting Roses...8
Watering Your Roses...10
Fertilizing Your Roses...12
Caring for Roses...13
Pruning Your Roses...15
Planting Potted Roses...17
Growing Organic Roses...19
Preventing Common Rose Diseases...22
Fixing Diseased and Problem Roses...24
Boost Your Roses in the spring...26
Drying Your Roses...28
Cold Climate Roses...31
Revive Wilting Roses...33
Roses as Gifts...35
Summary...38


Pruning Your Roses
Pruning your roses is one of the most needed and the most
annoyingly difficult tasks that goes with proper rose care. It
takes a steady hand the proper procedure to ensure the best
possible roses that you can get.
Pruning your roses is basically the act of getting rid of
dead and damaged pieces, and teaching the new growth to grow in
the correct outward facing direction. That just means that you
are training them to grow facing the outside of the shrub or
bush. This gives your roses the correct amount of circulating
air to thrive in.
Here is a list of the proper techniques to guide through
the pruning process.
• Soak your pruning shears in equal parts of water and
bleach. This will help to protect your roses from diseases
and insects.
• Pruning in the early spring, just after the snow melts is
best. However you want to do it before any new growth
appears. The best time would be when the buds are swelled,
or red.
• Hand shears are the best tool for pruning the smaller
branches. (about 4 ½ inches thick) Loppers are best for the
branches that are thicker or the thickness of a pencil.
This will make it easier. You should use a heavy pair of
rose gloves to avoid the thorns.
• You want to get rid of the winter protection that you set
up like cones, burlap, and mounded soil.
• You want to get rid of the dead wood first. (That would be
the black wood that is black inside as well as out).
• Next, you wan to get rid of the thinner wood, which is the
stems that are thinner than a pencil.
• Cut all of the branches that cross or overlap one another
because these are often diseased or will become so.
• Keep the remaining five healthy branches. These are often
dark green. You will want to make your roses fluted or
vases shaped, with an open center, and keep them from
touching or overlapping each other.
• Cut your healthy canes to be about one to four feet long,
or whatever size that you prefer.
• Cut you roses properly so that they stay healthy. Cut so
that the bud is facing outside of the bush and at a 45
degree angle that slopes inward so that you can keep
promoting the outward growth.
• You should use bypass pruners that work like scissors and
not the anvil types because the anvils crush the stems and
make the roses more available to diseases.
Planting Potted Roses
It is common for people that have received roses in pots as
gifts to fall so in love with their roses that they may want to
replant them in their own garden. Adding a rose bush to any
garden can be the best choice that you ever made.
Planting potted roses doesn’t have to be a taxing
experience. With the right knowledge given to you in simple step
by step format can make the task a great deal of fun. Here are
all of the steps that you will need in order to plant your
potted roses.
• You should plant contained roses in the spring, after you
are absolutely positive that there is no chance for a
return of the frost. If you live in a warmer climate like
Florida or California, you will want to plant in the early
autumn, once the weather has cooled off a bit.
• You will want to choose roses that do not have any flowers
on them because you are simply trying to establish your
roses. You are not trying to make your roses flower just
yet. If you have to, trim the flowers off of them before
you plant them.
• You definitely want to choose the right environment for
your roses. You will want to plant them in an area of the
garden that is susceptible to a lot of light in the
morning, (at least 6 hours worth) because early morning
light helps to dry the dew off of the flowers, which will
help prevent fungal diseases.
• If you want the transition of your roses from a pot to
your garden to go smoothly, you will need to prepare your
soil very well. You want your soil to be well drained for
the health of your roses.
• Once you have prepared your soil, you will want to work
several spadesful of composte into the planting hole after
digging in a hole that