Roses:
With their great beauty, tremendous variety, and luscious scent, it's easy to become
passionate about those all-time favorites, roses. For many, roses are the symbol of a
well-cared-for home.
To produce quantities of beautiful, fragrant flowers--roses need special attention.
Although it's possible to mix any number of roses in with a shrub border, it's far easier
to be lavish with that attention if they are segregated in a small bed. Ten to 12 rose
bushes will make a magnificent display
When choosing roses, it's helpful to know some of the terminology and uses:
Hybrid tea roses : These are tall, long-stemmed roses ideal for cutting.
They are usually the kind you send from the florist. In the garden, they are often
featured as single specimens.
Floribundas : these roses are shorter and bloom more freely, setting
clusters of blossoms rather than a single bloom on a stem.
Shrub or landscape roses : These can be tall or kept trimmed. They can be
treated like a hedge and bloom from spring through fall. Their foliage fills in. They are
spaced 18 inches apart in cool climates; 24 to 36 inches apart in warmer climates. These
are impressive for many reasons: their natural disease-resistance, their willingness to
grow in a variety of climates with a minimum of attention from the gardener, their compact
growth habit , ect.
Tree roses : These elegant roses grow in a cluster at the top of a
stake. Miniatures grow 18 inches high; patio varieties 24 inches; and full tree roses 36
inches high. Tall ones can frame a doorway or line a walk. Smaller varieties can be grown
in containers on the patio or porch.
Patio roses : These grow two to four feet tall, bloom all season, and are
well suited to growing in containers in small spaces. Sometimes they are planted in hedges
as foundation covers. The foliage tends to be dense.
Climbers : Climbing roses can form dramatic cascades grown over an arched
trellis or trained over a fence, pillar, or post. They are sometimes used to create a
privacy wall.
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