Articles for tag: Climbing Roses, Rose Care, Rose Pruning

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How to Purchase Roses

How to Purchase Roses Get off to a good start with your rose bush plants, by spending some time looking for a healthy, bug free rose plant that will produce and perform, to its full potential. Rose bush plants are available bare root and containers, both are good choices, just purchase from a reputable nursery ...

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How to Cut Roses from Your Rose Bush

The secondary reason gardener’s love to grow rose bushes is because they provide us with fresh cut roses for indoor enjoyment. There is a right way and a wrong way to cut roses, the wrong way will harm your rose bush and the right way will invigorate your rose bush. Cutting the blooms off of ...

Rose Hips, the Fruit of the Rose Bush

When we think about the rose bush, we think of beautiful fragrant flowers that bloom throughout the summer, but the rose bush produces more than just fragrant flowers. Rose bushes also produce a useful fruit, rose hips. Rose hips are vitamin and antioxidant rich, provide visual interest to winter gardens and provide food for birds. ...

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The Royal Gold Climbing Rose

The Royal Gold climber was planted seven years ago. It is a Dennison Morey origination that was introduced by Jackson and Perkins in 1987. It is a cross of climbing Goldilocks X Lydia. Goldilocks is a dainty, deep yellow floribunda that was introduced in 1945. One of the plants in the Jackson & Perkins, fields ...

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Climbing Rose Bush Varieties Explained

A climbing rose bush is a beautiful and versatile floral addition to any landscape. While the traditional uses for climbing rose bushes have been to cover arbors, trellises or pergolas in the landscape, certain varieties of climbing rose bushes make excellent ground covers or camouflage for unsightly outdoor structures. Rambler Climbing Rose Bush The Rambler ...

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Rose Bush Diseases

Roses are one of the most beautiful flowers on the plant. They can come in different colors, like lavender, red, and pink. Keeping your roses lushes and alive sometimes can seem difficult, especially when they catch a disease. Roses seem to be affect by diseases more often than any other flower. When I started my ...

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Five New Roses to Brighten Your Garden

The cultivation of roses began 5,000 years ago in what are now China and Iraq. Chinese roses, which bloomed more than once a year, unlike European roses, which bloomed only once annually, were introduced to Europe in the nineteenth century. An explosion of new varieties of roses ensued, as Chinese roses were crossed with their ...

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When and How to Prune Rose Bushes

Pruning roses can be a little scary, but as with many things in life, it takes practice and time. Plus it is really good for the future growth of the rose bushes. It is very unlikely that you will kill the rose bushes even if you do not give them the most expert pruning, it ...

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How to Prune Rose Bushes

Pruning Roses Roses can grow fast in warm climates; do not neglect to prune your roses on a timely schedule. Removing dead and deformed canes leaves the healthy part of the rose to produce beautiful rose blooms. When to Prune: Prune roses after the last frost in your area. Months include January -April. Check your ...

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How to Grow Tree Roses

Tree roses make a rose garden something special. They add a dramatic vertical element, towering over normal rose bushes. Tree roses are not a product of nature. They are created by nursery owners by a method of very careful grafting. Tree roses are actually made up of three separate items. At the bottom is a ...