Plant Care & Gardening : How to Winterize Roses

Winterize roses by avoiding high-nitrogen fertilizers by mid-summer, trimming the plant back one third and using a nitrogen-based fertilizer. Keep roses dry during the winter with help from a sustainable gardener in this free video on plant care.

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Plant Care & Gardening : How to Prune Climbing Roses for Winter

Prune climbing roses for winter by getting rid of long, lanky vines until one third of the plant is left to regrow in the spring. Prune off any brown leaves or branches of climbing roses that have been eaten by slugs with instructions from a sustainable gardener in this free video on plant care.

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What are the best roses to grow in Adelaide's climate?

Live in southern suburbs, Adelaide SA. Want to have easy-care, drought tolerant roses in my garden.

Several alternatives;
Shrub Roses,if plenty of room is available.
Ground cover types,or
Hybrid teas.By incorporating humus forming material like compost,well-rotted manure or peat into the soil before planting,mulching the soil when moist roses thrive in most climates.
Rosa rugosa in variety are especially suited to an arid environment The use of pot grown plants is especially good,any reputable nursery will offer a selection and advice.

Plant Care & Gardening : When to Cut Back Roses

Cut back roses in the fall when they have stopped blooming, the nights are getting colder and the plant begins to turn brown. Be sure to cut back roses where two leaves meet with tips from a sustainable gardener in this free video on plant care.

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Are hybrid roses hard to care for?

Well actually roses are roses.this is like those math problems we had in school with sets and subsets.all modern roses are hybrids,but not all hybrids are modern roses.in the rose world all hybrid roses are considerd as modern. but no they are not hard to care for. some may be because they have different kinds. but some are actually easier than the regular rose. but some are difficult. it all depends on what kind you get.

Plant Care & Gardening : How to Transplant Old Roses

To transplant old roses, work around the roots of the plant with a shovel and gently rock the roots of the roses from the ground. Replant transplanted roses as soon as possible with tips from a sustainable gardener in this free video on plant care.

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how difficult are roses?

How hard are roses to grow and care for?

Roses come in different classes. Some like the well known Hybrid Teas can be touchy. These were developed more for flower competitions than general garden use so require more care. I hated my mothers roses because of all the dusting and pruning needed except for one old yellow climber that needed nothing. That was a great rose.
New lines of roses are very disease resistant and more fragrant. It can be very overwhelming looking at all the roses in all the different classes. So to start simply look to what you like. How many petals? 5 for a single rose 20 – 100 are double to full double.
Then the flower can open flat or stay cupped. The petals can scroll or reflex. The rose can be quartered or the quartering can be muddled. The center can be buttoned or open to display the stamens.
My favorite flower form is a small 2-3 inch, muddled rose, with a button eye, and ruffled petals of moderate substance and about 30, fragrant petals.
Thin petals often have more fragrance but do not last very long. I live in Seattle so roses with 60 petals or more mostly ball in the rain. Then they look like wads of wet tissues and turn black with rot.
If you live with Japanese beetles know they love roses. In Philadelphia I saw plants that never bloomed because they had all the buds eaten. There are organic methods that work.http://gardening.about.com/od/rose1/a/OrganicRose.htm
http://www.extremelygreen.com/roseguide.cfm
http://www.greenharvest.com.au/greennotes/Organic_Rose_Care.html

Buying roses is not hard. Look for three good canes larger than a pencil. Anything less than three is not worth buying. More is ok but not necessary.

Paul Barden has my favorite rose web site. He grows and evaluates roses, listing his rating and the ARS rating in comparison. Look at his pictures then look up the rose on the next sites.
http://www.rdrop.com/%7Epaul/index.html
Find Roses
http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/index.php
http://rosefile.com/

My favorite rose breeders are Tom Carruth, David Austin, and Ralph Moore. Look at Carruth's 'Night Owl' 'Ebb Tide' 'Raven' 'Midnight Blue'
Austin I have 'Jayne Austin' 'Anne Boleyn' & 'Pat Austin' but I want 'Molineux'
Look for Moore's Halo series of miniatures.
Consider these roses;
'Sally Holmes' or 'Iceberg' or 'Gourmet Popcorn for white disease free plants listed in order of flower size.
Rosa glauca may only bloom once but the foliage is stunning, I just planted a Clematis viticella 'Margot Koster' to climb up it for a second season of bloom.
'Red Sentsation' is a fragrant mini.
There are roses that change color as the flower ages.
'Mutabilis', 'Flutterbye and 'Joseph's Coat' are mine.
Hybrid Musk roses will even tolerate less sun than others.
Try 'Ballerina' or 'Sally Holmes'
For a very pliant rambling rose that is easy to train try 'Phillis Bide' another Mulitcolor; Yellow, Pink, Salmon, Cerise, Apricot, small, muddled &, sigh, not fragrant.

There are ground cover or carpet roses and roses that can cover a house like R. Kiftsgate. I planted that one to climb my neighbors tree. It will go to 50 feet in time. Then there is 'Si' and 'Tom Thumb' so small they are microminiatures.
I no longer hate looking after the roses.
I use foliar sprays to keep black spot at bay. Foliar Feed Recipe
2 T fish fertilizer
1 T liquid seaweed
1 T blackstrap molasses
1 gallon water
Mix all ingredients well, pour mix into spray bottle and spray on plants, be sure to get the undersides of leaves as well. Spray up to once a week. For best results, spray at least once a month.
Roses are very heavy feeders so it is best to feed your rose to encourage growth and maximum bloom. I fertilize with a root drench of Kelp/Fish on May 1, June 1 and July 1.
I use Growmore seaweed extract and Alaska® Fish Fertilizer 5-1-1 to make this. I fertilize three times a year Valentine's Day, Memorial Day & Labor Day, in zone 7, using Whitney Farms Rose & Flower 4-6-2.
Soil amendments Alfalfa tea
Alfalfa pellets or alfalfa meal 4 cups to every 5 gallons of water
Add Epsom salts half a cup to 5 gallons
Add water
Let stand for one week until it bubbles with fermentation. Your nose will tell you that it's ready.

Using it: Apply alfalfa tea once in the spring and again in summer after the first flush of flowers, to encourage repeat blooming. On roses, I found 1⁄2 to 1 cup per bush is adequate.

Basic Cornell Spray: For Control Of Blackspot & Powdery Mildew: Do not substitute vegetable oil spray for the summer weight agricultural oil, it doesn't emulsify in suspension when water is added. Another tip I have learned is to spray this in the evening, around or just after supper time. Do not spray this in the hottest part of the day.
2tbs Horticultural Oil (Sunspray or Volk Oil)
1tbs of baking soda
Add to 1 gallon of water and spray leaf surfaces LIGHTLY, not to dripping. Reapply every two weeks.
This will help to control powdery mildew and blackspot as well as other fungal diseases on roses.

Another really good method is milk spray …… 1 part milk to 7 parts water. Dried milk works as well as fresh.

Cornmeal
Dust the ground around roses with cornmeal, and water in. This helps to eliminate black spot spores that attack roses, and also helps to eliminate the spores in the soil around roses.

Cornmeal Juice
Cornmeal Juice is a natural fungal control for use in any kind of sprayer. Make by soaking horticultural cornmeal in water at one cup per gallon of water. Put the cornmeal a nylon stocking bag to hold in the larger particles. The milky juice of the cornmeal will permeate the water and this mix should be sprayed without further diluting.
This makes it sound like I spend all my time spraying. No, I rotate through the fungal sprays using them only on the plants that show a spot or two and only every other week in rotation, milk then corn meal, then Cornell.

how do I care for my roses?

Bought my house about 1 month ago and it has 5 rose bushes, 3 are big and grow pretty tiny roses, 1 is small and only has 1 or 2 huge white roses and one it more like a vine growing on an arbor (more like over the arbor and into the sky! The thing is over 10 ft tall). Looking at them it doesn’t look like the previous owner kept them maintained (not neat, but spread out. But it looks very pretty still). In very simple and easy to understand terms, what do I need to do now in prep for winter? Do I wind the tall one around the arbor? I live in east TN and it is just starting to get cold out. Looks like most of the roses are starting to drop off except for the tall one that just bloomed last week.

You don’t need to do anything for winter. You can prune them now to make them look prettier next year. In other words you made it sound like they were over grown and in need of pruning. Roses can be pruned almost down to the ground and next year you will see just how fast they rejuvenate. I would not prune the climbing rose on the arbor too much because it may be better to let it be. Just minor pruning for it and yes tie up parts of it ti the arbor.

how to take care of roses?

Dude there’s not enough room here to explain it all however here’s a few points

Black spot is the biggest problem you have to keep an eye out for it and spray regular

Prune at the start of winter and fertilise during the growing season

Walk around your neighborhood and ask people who have good plants and ask them for a few tips gardeners by and large are a friendly bunch

Good luck

how do you take care of blue roses?

my boyfriend promised to get me a blue rose….i thought he was lying because i didnt know they exist….well ive been having it since christmas….its a single blue rose wrapped in plastic lik evry other roses are….so do i take out the wrapper?because it seems to be very moist in there…

Honey, maybe you should try asking that question in the Home and Garden section, because I can barely keep a fake plant alive. Sorry!

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