All About Gardening » rose gardening http://gardeningdirection.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:27:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Rose Societies Are a Fabulous Resource for Growing Roses http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/rose-societies-are-a-fabulous-resource-for-growing-roses.htm http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/rose-societies-are-a-fabulous-resource-for-growing-roses.htm#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:27:18 +0000 Cathy You can do your own research into growing roses, both on the internet and via books about the plants and how to take care of them. But if you're just beginning this adventure, why not take advantage of a resource that's likely to have all the information, advice and help you could possibly need? Societies devoted to rose growing and research can be found all over the world, and it's very likely that you have one in your region. They can help you learn all you need to know about rose care, and a great many other things as well.

These societies may initially have been established primarily as groups to assist and inform local members about how to grow roses in general, but a lot of them have banded together to act in part as regulators and developers of roses also. Nowadays their activities involve things like registering names for new types of roses, and they help to set standards for assessing the growth and shape of the flowers.

The World Federation of Rose Societies (WFRS) is also working with its members to develop a vast database that will make facts available to everybody in the planet, on everything from the numerous kinds, to how to take care of roses, to rose conventions.

These societies provide forums for the exchange of helpful information from all over the world. Growing roses is a universal love that easily crosses boundaries, and when members of these organizations meet at their annual conventions, they exhibit their roses for each other, study new varieties, and learn about the kinds of roses grown in different regions of the world. They exchange gardening tips, learn about new books, and extend knowledge amongst all rose growers.

These organizations devoted to the rose are great resources for flower gardening in general, but they also sometimes sponsor research into diseases and other rose-related problems. So they aren't just information sources. They are involved in conservation efforts as well as the registration of new and old rose varieties from many different regions of the world. Smaller, more local societies may be mainly concerned just with growing roses, but as they band together and contribute to their national and international counterparts, they become a major force in preserving information about roses and perpetuating them into the future.

Rose gardening is considered to be a little more difficult than some forms of gardening. But roses can transform your garden and you will have fresh flowers whenever they are blooming. Click here for some great rose gardening tips.

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]]> http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/rose-societies-are-a-fabulous-resource-for-growing-roses.htm/feed 0 Planting Roses In Your Garden http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/planting-roses-in-your-garden.htm http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/planting-roses-in-your-garden.htm#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:35:29 +0000 Cathy http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/planting-roses-in-your-garden.htm Planting a garden is one of lifes joys and roses are an old standby for any garden and one of the worlds favorite flowers. There are over 5,000 varieties of roses in the United States and they can be used to enhance your garden in many ways — as creepers, shrubs, vines, climbers, hedges or just as beds of pure colour.

When picking out roses for your garden, it is important to get healthy plants. Make sure the stems are green and not shriveled and the roots are moist and partly fibrous. The most expensive rose is not always the best rose; it may be only a newcomer, much discussed and, therefore, a favorite.

There are basically just 2 types of roses - climbers and bush roses. Bush roses are shrub like and climbers produce canes that require some sort of support. The hybrid tea rose is the most commonly planted type of bush rose. Other types of bush roses include polyanthas (roses in large clusters), the fioribundas (large-flowered polyanthas), and the hybrid perpetuals (vigorous growers with a great crop in June and continuous blooming throughout the summer).

The climbers include ramblers, whose long pliant canes have large clusters of small roses that can be used for covering walls, fences and banks. The climbers also are pillar roses, adapted to growing near buildings and on posts and the climbing hybrid tree.

If you are contemplating planting roses in your garden, make sure you pick out the proper spot and prepare the soil appropriately. You should use garden loam with organic matter that contains peat moss, leaf mould, compost, rotted or commercial manure. Prepare the soil in the rose beds well before in order to allow for settling of the soil.

The best time to plant roses is in the fall, but you can plant them in the spring too. When planting roses, inspect the roots to make sure they have not dried and if they have make sure you soak them before planting. Trim off any broken, weak or long roots.

Set the plant in a hole that is large enough so that the roots can spread. The part of the plant where the top attaches to the roots (called the bud) should be just under the surface of the ground. Plants should be spaced 18” apart. Prune the branches back to about 8” from the soil.

Keeping your roses fresh and healthy all year is important.  To grow good roses it is necessary to cultivate, to prune and to spray. If you have a well-cultivated bed you need not worry about watering. But if you start to water in hot weather, you must keep it up, soaking the roots thoroughly about once a week.
Spraying every 10 days guards against the diseases and insects that attack roses. Nicotine sulphate wipes out the green lice; arsenate of lead is used against chewing insects; or sulphur and arsenate of lead may be used in a dust, as may DDT dust.

When winter approaches, protect your roses by piling sod or straw mulch around them. If you have climbing roses, remove the supports and place the canes on the ground, peg them, and cover with soil mounds.

]]> http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/planting-roses-in-your-garden.htm/feed 0 Understanding The Basics Of Beautiful Rose Gardening http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/understanding-the-basics-of-beautiful-rose-gardening.htm http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/understanding-the-basics-of-beautiful-rose-gardening.htm#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:49:23 +0000 Cathy http://gardeningdirection.com/garden/understanding-the-basics-of-beautiful-rose-gardening.htm Gardens are beautiful pieces of natural landscapes that provide the most endearing relaxation that every person needs. Through the years, the development of gardening procedures has captured the fascination of many enthusiasts of garden landscaping. It could be observed though that every year, the major development in the human society makes it harder for urban residential area owners to find the perfect way to create gardens within their midst.

However, with the help of environment enthusiasts, the development of fine procedures to create urban gardens today has been made available for the interested market to apply in their own residential areas. One of the most enhanced processes that the said experts have dealt with is that of rose gardening.

Collaborating the Old with the New Processes of Rose Gardening

The traditional procedures of rose gardening are actually aimed to be applied in spacious areas. However, with the increasing need to create a smaller sector based rose gardening process that could be applied by urban area residents, experts as regards matter known as offer now various directives to help the urban residents to include/understand how they could raise themselves their own rose gardens in their own back-yards.

Why is there a need to help urban area residents learn about the art of rose gardening? Primarily, the capability of rose gardening to ease the stressed soul is one of the main idealisms as to why and how rose gardening procedures are aimed by the gardening experts to be shared to the owners of homes in the cities.

It has been revealed through studies that rose gardening itself gives a chance for the gardener to release his stress through applying his creativity in making his own flower garden design to be applied in his own rose gardening. Considerably, the act of rose gardening itself already helps one to release the stresses that he is experiencing, what more reward there is that rose gardening could offer to the planter of the seed when the hard work of the gardener begins to pay back as bursting bright colored blooming roses come out from the said gardens.

Yes, the innate connection of humans to nature makes it possible for a simple rose gardening hobby creates a good mood for an individual who is currently in need of spirit boosting. For this particular fact thus gives an intimate proof on the fact that rose gardening could be one of the great sources of relaxation and inspiration for many residential area owners in the cities today.

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Like any job you tackle, the work is always much easier if you arm yourself with the right tools. Before heading out to your rose garden, make sure you bring along these basic rose gardening tools.

Pruners

A good pruner is one tool that you will use almost daily. There are two types of pruners on the market. One is called an "anvil" pruner, and the other is called a "bypass" pruner. An anvil pruner has blades that meet on top of each other. Bypass pruners have blades that pass each other like scissors do. Always use bypass pruners so you don't crush your canes and stems.

Loppers

When your rose garden starts to mature there will come times when this will be an indispensable tool for cutting back old, thick canes that are too much for a set of pruning shears. If you are just starting your rose garden, save your money as you won't need this for a few years.

Long-Handled Shovel

Choose a lightweight model with a strong handle. Shovels with fiberglass throats are good choices. Spend a few extra dollars and get one with a padded handle as it will save you lots of blisters as the years go by.

Wheelbarrow

Avoid the temptation to buy the cute garden "carts." You are going to need a real wheelbarrow. As your gardening addiction, I mean hobby, takes off there will be no end to the things you will be hauling in and out of your garden. Some of those things will be very heavy and you'll be glad that you have a real wheelbarrow to help you.

Gloves

"You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have a rose." - Tom Wilson

The rose garden is no place for thin, whimpy gloves. Unless you enjoy feeling the thorns pierce your skin, opt for leather work gloves with those big, fold-down cuffs.

Kneeling Pads

Some people prefer the big 8"x15" water-resistant pads with handles, while others prefer strap-on knee pads. The kneepads are more convenient because they move when you move, but the one-size-fits-all knee cups may not work for you. In that case, the pad will suit you fine.

Short Garden Digging Fork

This tool is indispensable for turning and loosening soil in small patches. Choose a good quality model with steel forks and a sturdy handle.

Watering Wand

Great for watering potted roses and for giving your other roses a good root soaking. Choose a model with a quick shutoff valve on the wand itself, and a quick release fitting for the end that plugs into the hose. Spend the money to get a model with brass fittings instead of plastic. It will last years longer.

Garden Rake

These are the rakes with the sharp steel teeth that you use for leveling and smoothing beds. Choose one with a sturdy handle and steel tines.

Leaf Rake

You'll use this tool a lot for cleaning up clippings, leaves and other garden debris. You may want to buy both a "regular" size rake, and one of the smaller "child size" rakes for pulling debris from tight quarters.

You shouldn't have any trouble locating a source to purchase these basic rose gardening tools. Your local garden supply store likely will stock these tools, or if you don't mind purchasing gently-used items, check out area yard sales for your gardening supplies. Have fun!

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