Roses and Rose Gardening

Picking the Best Time to Water your Roses

Think a quick spray with the hose is enough to keep your roses lovely and blooming? Think again. How, and when, you decide to water your roses is one of the most important and often overlooked aspects of basic rose care. Here are a few tips and guidelines for keeping your roses supple, healthy, and beautiful year-round.

What is a Hybrid Tea Rose

Hybrids, Teas, Floribundas, Grandifloras—the world of roses are so vast and confused that even the most experienced gardener may find himself or herself confused. So what exactly are hybrid tea roses? Hybrid tea roses are the result of crossing the Hybrid Perpetual (a European rose) with the Tea rose from China.

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How to Tame those Climbing Roses in your Garden

Climbing, or rambling roses are one of the popular types of roses that have many varieties to them and can be grown in many different places. However, like many other plants, they need help to stay healthy and maintained through the different seasons.

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Five Ways to Take Care of your Roses in Winter Months

If you are a Rosarian, no matter where you live, you will want to winterize your roses. There is a school of thought that says winterizing is not necessary for some roses in some colder climates. But, while some climates permit minimal winter preparation and some rose varieties require little work for the winter, all roses need some type of treatment for any type of winter.

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How Roses Benefit from the Sun

It is known that most roses require six hours of direct sunlight in order for them to grow healthy and continue to bloom. Without this amount of sun, almost every single kind of rose will not produce the flowers that you would like to see. They may also be more prone to getting diseases without the direct sunlight. There are several ways in which roses will benefit from having the direct sunlight for the required amount of time each day.

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Ten Tips for Choosing your Tea Roses

Tea roses epitomize our notion of rose beauty: they produce large, often fragrant single blooms dazzle us with their velvety texture, vivid color, and simple elegance. If you’d like to add this classic rose to your garden, be prepared to be dazzled by the sheer variety. There are literally hundreds of different tea rose varieties. They come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Here are ten tips that will make the process of choosing a tea rose a bit easier.

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How to Choose the Right Rose for your Garden

Roses are delightful plants to grow in your garden. Few other plants are as attractive or burst with as much color as roses do. Successfully raising roses will bring you great satisfaction. But roses can also seem like picky, finicky plants that need a great deal of attention. That is why you should be careful in choosing roses. There are several factors you should take into account before you plant them.

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