Rose gardening is easy and one of the best features of any garden – and guaranteed to give you years of pleasure and enjoyment.
Don’t worry if you don’t know how to prune them – that’s relatively easy to learn – or you can find someone to do it for you a reasonable price.
The thing about roses is the breadth of what they provide you and your garden
• Cut flowers
• Fragrance
• Beauty of shape – hybrid tea roses have superb and beautiful shapes.
• Color
• Hardiness – roses are very drought resistant, will survive in snow climates, can grow in semi tropical regions
• Stand up to lots of neglect – though please don’t!
• Come in a variety of forms – bush (shrub), standards, climbers, ground (carpet) covers
• Can grow in partial shade – best though if they have a minimum of 6 hours of sunlight
• Can grow in pots – so good even for apartment balconies and courtyards
• Disease resistant
• Repeat flowering
Roses thrive in temperate climates.
While there are over 100 species of roses, the main ones for home gardens are
Hybrid tea
Floribunda
English/David Austin
Grandiflora
Many of these come also in climbing form, and most are available in bush or standard forms
Rose aficionados will also explore many of the other types or species available, but the above are more than sufficient for rose gardening in homes.
In temperate climates, with timely pruning, you should get between 4- 6 ‘crops’ of roses – either for display on the bush or for cut flowers.
