How to start a rose garden

1. Choose a location in full sun. Roses like sun much for optimal blooming. Roses need 5 to 6 hours of direct sun each day. Morning sun is best, but light afternoon shade is tolerated and even beneficial in hot climates.

2. Good air movement helps dew and rain dry quickly, which discourages disease. Plant your roses 2-3 feet or 50 cm apart, or away from other plants to ensure it gets enough breathing room. Rose also don't like very windy areas either, so if there's a prevailing wind in your garden, plant your roses near the shelter of a building, wall, fence or hedge.

3. When you dig the hole to plant your rose, check the area's drainage by filling it with water before you drop in the plant. An area with good drainage will empty within several hours, and will ensure that its roots won't rot when watered, or freeze in winter.

4. If necessary, you can easily improve drainage with tilling or raised beds. Prepare the soil by mixing or tilling in lots of organic matter, such as compost. If the soil seems too sandy, or is thick like clay, add organic matter like compost, dehydrated cow manure or shredded bark. Remove any large rocks down 18 to 24 inches deep.

5. Don't plant near large trees or shrubs. They compete for light, water and nutrients. Avoid eaves or gutters - bushes may be damaged by falling water, snow or ice.

6. Consider designing in groups of three of one variety. Not only do companies sell roses cheaper in groups of threes, but you'll get more impact for the money.

7. There are hundreds of rose varieties, so choose something you like. Factors to consider include flower color, size of the rose bush, habit (tall climbing, low-growing ground cover), and disease resistance.

There are many disease resistant, hardy roses available, but none are completely "bug-proof" or "disease-proof." When shopping for roses, look for varieties described as "resistant to black spot," a notorious fungal disease of roses. Rugosa roses are a good choice. Though they can look a little more "wild" than tea roses, they tend to be more rugged and resistant to pests.

There are many different kinds of roses (floribundas, hybrid tea, shrub, miniature, etc.), so you'll want to do some "window shopping" to see what type fits your situation. Then search out a disease-resistant, hardy variety in that category.

Varieties classified as "shrub roses" roses make good hedges. If you’d like to attract birds, look for varieties described as having lots of hips. Or, consider rugosa roses, which generally have large and abundant hips.

Polyantha

Literally "many-flowered" roses, from the Greek "poly" (many) and "anthos" (flower). Originally derived from crosses between two East Asian species (Rosa chinensis and R. multiflora), polyanthas first appeared in France in the late 1800s alongside the hybrid teas. They featured short plants — some compact, others spreading in habit — with tiny blooms (1" in diameter on average) carried in large sprays, in the typical rose colors of white, pink and red.

Their main claim to fame was their prolific bloom: From spring to fall, a healthy polyantha shrub might be literally covered in flowers, creating a strong color impact in the landscape. Polyantha roses are still regarded as low-maintenance, disease-resistant garden roses today, and remain popular for that reason. Examples: 'Cecile Brunner', 'The Fairy', 'Red Fairy'.

Grandiflora

Glowing Peace

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About Face

A grandiflora is a cross between a floribunda and a hybrid tea. Grandifloras are tall elegant plants which bloom repeatedly during the season, and generally feature classic hybrid tea flower clusters with stems which are slightly shorter than those of hybrid teas. This rose grows up to six feet tall.

Grandifloras (Latin for "large-flowered") were the class of roses created in the mid 1900s to designate back-crosses between hybrid teas and floribundas that fit neither category — specifically, the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose, which was introduced in 1954. Grandiflora shrubs are typically larger than either hybrid teas or floribundas, and feature hybrid tea-style flowers borne in small clusters of three to five, similar to a floribunda. Grandifloras maintained some popularity from about the 1950s to the 1980s but today they are much less popular than either the hybrid teas or the floribundas. Examples: 'Queen Elizabeth', 'Comanche,' 'Montezuma'.

Hybrid Tea

One of the most popular rose types, these are tall, long-stemmed roses ideal for cutting. The roses you usually see at the florist. The flowers are usually borne singly, one to a stem, rather than in clusters. Blooms have a high-center point. The flowers are well-formed with large, high-centered buds, and each flowering stem typically terminates in a single shapely bloom.

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In the garden they are often featured as single specimens or in a traditional rose cutting garden. The shrubs tend to be stiffly upright and sparsely foliaged, which today is often seen as a liability in the landscape. Many varieties reveal a beautiful fragrance.

The hybrid tea remains the standard rose of the floral industry, however, and is still favoured in small gardens in formal situations. Examples: 'Peace' (yellow), 'Mister Lincoln (red), 'Double Delight' (multicolors).

Love n Peace

The hybrid tea class is important in being the first class of roses to include genes from the old Austrian brier rose (Rosa foetida). This resulted in an entirely new color range for roses: shades of deep yellow, apricot, copper, orange, true scarlet, yellow bicolors, lavender, gray, and even brown were now possible.

The new color range did much to skyrocket hybrid tea popularity in the 20th century, but these colors came at a price: Rosa foetida also passed on a tendency toward disease-susceptibility, scentless blooms, and an intolerance of pruning, to its descendants.

Elle

The favourite rose for much of the history of modern roses, hybrid teas were initially created by hybridizing Hybrid Perpetuals with Tea roses in the late 1800s. 'La France,' created in 1867, is universally acknowledged as the first indication of a new class of roses.

Hybrid teas exhibit traits midway between both parents: hardier than the teas but less hardy than the hybrid perpetuals, and more everblooming than the hybrid perpetuals but less so than the teas.

Hybrid teas became the single most popular class of garden rose of the 20th century; today, their reputation as being more high maintenance than many other rose classes has led to a decline in hybrid tea popularity among gardeners and landscapers in favor of lower-maintenance "landscape" roses.

Floribunda

Rosa Borussia, a modern Floribunda roses.

Floribunda is a new class of roses that means "many flowering". These bushy shrubs have the large, showy blossoms of the hybrid teas, but bloom more freely, setting clusters of three to fifteen blossoms rather than a single bloom on a stem.



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Floribundas are versatile; an individual shrub will fit easily into almost any sunny border planting. However, they are perhaps most striking in mass plantings. Now they are still used in large bedding schemes in public parks and similar spaces. Examples: 'Dainty Maid', 'Iceberg', 'Tuscan Sun'.

Day Breaker

Typical floribundas feature stiff shrubs, smaller and bushier than the average hybrid tea but less dense and sprawling than the average polyantha. The flowers are often smaller than hybrid teas but are carried in large sprays, giving a better floral effect in the garden. Make any landscape designs stand out with the most colorful of rose types.

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Floribundas are found in all hybrid tea colors and with the classic hybrid tea-shaped blossom, sometimes differing from hybrid teas only in their cluster-flowering habit. Long time ago, rose breeders quickly saw the value in crossing polyanthas with hybrid teas, to create roses that bloomed with the polyantha profusion, but with hybrid tea floral beauty and color range.

Livin' Easy

In 1909, the first polyantha/hybrid tea cross, 'Gruss an Aachen,' was created, with characteristics midway between both parent classes. As the larger, more shapely flowers and hybrid-tea-like growth habit separated these new roses from polyanthas and hybrid teas alike,

a new class was created and named Floribunda, Latin for "many-flowering."

The Flower

Rosa Sericea

The flowers of most species roses have five petals, with the exception of Rosa sericea, which usually has only four. Each petal is divided into two distinct lobes and is usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red. Beneath the petals are five sepals (or in the case of some Rosa sericea, four). These may be long enough to be visible when viewed from above and appear as green points alternating with the rounded petals. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals.

We can find roses everywhere in the world. Because roses thrive in temperate climates, though certain species and cultivars can flourish in sub-tropical and even tropical climates, especially when grafted onto appropriate rootstock.

Rose

A rose is a lovely flower. Many people are amused with this flower. Roses are ancient symbols of love and beauty. Who is falling in love will look for roses to express this feeling. On the wedding day roses are one of the most important flower to be shown up. The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses (including Isis, Venus and Aphrodite), and is often used as a symbol of the Virgin Mary. In Indonesia they spread petal roses both red and white on the graveyard. They call roses for this occassion as 'bunga tabur'.

In Rome a wild rose would be placed on the door of a room where secret or confidential matters were discussed. The phrase sub rosa, or "under the rose", means to keep a secret — derived from this ancient Roman practice.

The rose is the national flower of England and the United States. It is also the provincial flower of Yorkshire and Lancashire in England (the white rose and red rose respectively), of Alberta (the wild rose) in Canada, and of Islamabad Capital Territory in Pakistan.

In US, it is the state flower of four US states: Iowa and North Dakota (R. Arkansana), Georgia (R.Laevigata) and New York (Rosa generally). Portland, Oregon counts "City of Roses" among its nicknames, and holds an annual Rose Festival.

A rose is a perennial flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp thorns. So, please be carefully if you want to arrange roses for your vase.

Most roses are native to Asia, with smaller numbers of species native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Natives, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance. Roses from Asia has small petals. And the roses from America has big petals.

The leaves are alternate and pinnately compound compound, with sharply toothed oval-shaped leaflets. The plants fleshy edible fruit is called a rose hip. Rose plants range in size from tiny, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 20 metres in height. Species from different parts of the world easily hybridize, which has given rise to the many types of garden roses.

The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed from Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Armenian vard, Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr). Indonesian mawar or ros.

Attar of rose is the steam-extracted essential oil from rose flowers that has been used in perfumes for centuries. Rose water, made from the rose oil, is widely used in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Rose hips are occasionally made into jam, jelly, and marmalade, or are brewed for tea, primarily for their high Vitamin C content. They are also pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to produce Rose hip seed oil, which is used in skin products and some makeup products.