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Roses are the most beloved flower of all time, and rose gardens are easier to grow than most gardeners believe. Roses are available in a wide array of colors and forms. There is a rose for every garden! Whether you want to grow them for cut flowers, in a mixed border, or in a formal rose garden, this page will give you all the info you need to grow healthy, floriferous roses no matter where you live and what your gardening experience is.
There are several forms of rose readily available today...the most common is the hybrid tea rose. This is the rose you see in formal rose gardens, The best for cutting, some tea roses are famous for problems with disease and pests. If this is the rose of your heart however, don't fear. There are many resistant rose varieties available, and some simple practices to make growing tea roses a cinch!
My favorite roses are the English roses. Bred from old fashioned, once blooming roses, these plants are disease resistant, beautiful, if informal in form, and have a strong, delicious fragrance unequalled by other forms of roses. David Austin roses are exceptional, and bloom repeatedly all summer long. These are the perfect roses for a cottage garden, mixed border, near a patio or porch for fragrance or in a family garden.
Also widely available today are landscape roses. Bred to take the work out of rose growing, they are fast becoming the most popular roses in retail outlets. Requiring little if any spraying or deadheading, these roses bloom nonstop and are the workhorses of the garden. Flower Carpet and Knock Out Roses grow in any part of the U.S. and need nothing more than regular watering and an early season slow release fertilizer. As easy to grow as any evergreen, without the hedgetrimmers!
Finally, there are miniature and patio roses for use in containers! I also like to use floribunda roses in large containers for their dainty blooms and compact habit.
Whatever your chosen rose, few plants stir emotion in the heart or in the landscape as the rose. Follow our links for tips and ideas on rose growing, and for using them in garden design.
Rose Gardens
Copyright 2007 K. Wilson
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