Handy Rose Growing Tips

Roses are one of the most popular flowers to grow by the home gardener. Their beauty, fragrance and ability to repeat flower (modern varieties) has led to their popularity. This article discusses a few tips to help you grow roses that are healthy, will flower prolifically and that you can be proud to say you have grown.

Roses have a great need for sun so you need to plant them in an area that gets a minimum of 5-6 hours of sun a day. The reason for this is that continued flowering utilizes a lot of energy and this energy is obtained by the plant from photosynthesis. If the rose doesn’t get a lot of sun, you end up with a plant that is leggy, with sporadic flowering and that is more prevalent to being attacked by insects or disease.

Good drainage is another important requirement of roses. While they enjoy getting plenty of water, which helps them from plenty of flowers, they don’t like to be sitting in water. It needs to be able to drain away from the roots in a reasonable time frame. Having water sitting around the roots will make then rot, then the root hairs which uptake the water and nutrients disintegrate and so the plant suffers moisture stress even though it may be getting regularly watered. No root hairs mean no water or nutrients get to the plant and it will eventually die.

The last tip in this article deals with regular feeding of the rose bush during its growing season. If you want masses of roses on your plant that you can enjoy on the bush or cut and bring indoors to admire, it’s important to regularly feed your rose every 6 weeks in the growing season. Your local plant nursery should have a good variety of rose fertilizers for you to select from for this important task.

You can get a lot of enjoyment from growing roses and they’re not as tricky to grow as some think. By following a few basic requirements like those mentioned above, you will be richly compensated for your efforts with a rose bush that is healthy, vigorous and a prolific bloomer.

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