Pruning hybrid tea roses may sound like a very daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. With some careful reading and understanding of these beautiful plants, you can have years of hardy, hybrid tea roses to grace your garden. Hybrid tea roses are actually a bred cross between hybrid perennials and ancient tea roses. […]
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You really don’t have to have a green thumb to grow roses. A healthy rose bush planted in good soil and the proper sun exposure will grow quite nicely. These tips on how to buy, plant and tend rose bushes will give basic information to new rosarians and help grow high quality, fragrant roses, regardless […]
It’s relatively easy to grow roses in your California gardens. What you have to take into consideration is the type of rose you purchase. All roses can not be grown anywhere or everywhere. Since there are different growing regions and so many climate zones throughout the United States, you have to choose roses that will […]
For those of you who have heard that growing roses is full of trials and tribulations, have faith. There are roses that are very picky about their conditions and then there are others that grow in spite of any weather conditions and neglect that is brought their way. Hybrid Tea Rose The most popular and […]
“In winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies a seed that, with the love of the sun, truly becomes a rose.” (“The Rose” by Amanda McBroom, 1977.) One of my favorite places is the many uses for liquid worm castings, ‘worm tea’, in the garden. This unique organic fertilizers is most effective when used to […]