Tag Archives: Rose Care

How to Grow Roses from Stem Cuttings

Growing roses from stem cuttings is the quickest, most effective way of propagating roses. While there are only a few ways to propagate roses, stem cuttings and seeds are the most common. However, growing roses from seeds can take a lot of time and patients along with trial and error. I have found that growing […]

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 Bushes: How to Buy, Plant and Tend This Fragrant Garden Favorite

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 […]

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 […]

How to Plant a Bare-Root Rose

Although some California gardeners use January and February to rest, relax, and read seed catalogs, there is no vacation for people who love roses. Now, rose gardeners are busy preparing their plants for spring, pruning, clearing areas of weeds and debris, and perhaps adding a new specimen, or two, or three, to round out their […]

Grandiflora Roses: The Beauty of a Hybrid Tea with the Ease of Care of a Floribunda

Grandifloras can complement any landscape by offering that classic rose bush beauty often associated with well-kept older gardens. The grandiflora flower has kept the characteristics of the hybrid tea while the bush keeps the characteristics of the floribunda. Most grow three to five feet tall although some may grow a little bit taller which makes […]

Climbing Rose Bush Varieties Explained

The climbing rose bush is a beautiful and versatile floral addition to any landscape. While the traditional use of climbing rose bushes has happened to walk around porches, canopies or pergolas in the landscape, some varieties of climbing rose bushes make magnificent ground covers or camouflage for unsightly outdoor structures. Rambler Bush Climbs Rose The […]