A Bit About Bare Root Roses...Planting Bare Root Roses
Scents from the rose garden filling the air as you walk by... it's a lovely
summer scent that you can enjoy every year. Many gardeners know that the rose is referred to as
the queen of all flowers, and you can see the history in the rose by traveling back in time to
Europe. The rose is a plant whose scent predominates the historical gardens all over the world.
Historical gardens in Europe include the use of Roses, Peonies, Honeysuckle, and a few other
strongly scented plants. The rose creates the feeling of royalty, color, and elegance all in the
same instant.
The rose bush is a perennial that will fill your garden space without much added work.
In planning a rose garden, you might have the option to plant roses that are bare root. What are
bare root roses? Bare root roses are plants that you will dig up from your family or friend's
house and bring back to your own garden. The plant that you dig up without bringing the soil
that the plant lived in to your garden is a bare root plant. Here, we are going to discuss more
about bare root roses, and how to plant them for your rose garden success.
Bringing the bare root plant back from the store, your friends or from your supplier, you should
soak your bare root plants in a bucket of water overnight before planting. In planning your rose
garden, you can dig your hole for your new plant, loosing the soil where you will place your new
rose bush. Using the soil that you loosen in the hole, pile or mound it in the middle of the
hole to support the plant during and after planting.
Placing your bare root plant in the hole, center it on the mound of dirt and back fill around
the plant. Do not pack in the soil, but loosely back fill the soil around the plant to an inch
above where planted in the soil before. You can tell how far the plant was in the soil earlier
by the green on the stalk of the plant. Water the rose bush once again with ample amounts of
water.
After watering your rose bush well, cover the soil with mulch to hold moisture. The mulch around
the rose should not actually touch the thick stalk of the plant, but instead be a half-inch to
an inch from the stalk. Watering your rose bush at least once a week, for the first month after
planting, will bring the first breath of success in your new rose garden.
Rose Garden Tips...
The rose garden ultimately is a get away for you and your thoughts any time of the day. You
can plan and create a rose garden of your own that will take away the stress of your day with
its beauty. The rose garden that you love and admire so much can be yours if you follow a few
easy steps in planning and in raising your roses.
If you have never raised roses before, we have a few great tips and ideas lined up for your
reference. One important thing to remember is that roses do love the sunshine. In the garden
that is full sun areas only, you will have great success in growing roses. If you have a
partially shaded area where you want to grow new rose bushes, you may want to consider moving
your plants to where your roses will receive at least six hours of sun a day or more.
When first planting or transplanting a rose bush, water will be an important factor. You will
need to water your roses at least once a week as your rose establishes itself. The soil that you
plant your rose in does need to drain well, this is important. The rose bush will not thrive in
the area moist all of the time. Refraining from planting your rose in an area that fills with
puddles will aid in your successful rose gardening.
As your roses grow and change every year, you will need to pick off the dead head flowers.
Picking off the flowers that are dead will bring new life to your bush. If you find black spots
on the leaves of your rose bush, this will keep your plant from suffering and from any disease
from spreading over the entire plant. Treating your plants at the first sign of Japanese beetles
is going to save their luscious green leaves from these tiny creatures.
In the spring of the year, you will need to prune your rose bush. The blackened portions of your
rose bush need pruned away to promote additional new growth over the entire plant. While pruning
your plant in the spring season, pull weed starts so that your plant is not in competition for
water or soil nutrients over the growing seasons.
As you plan your rose garden and begin placement, planting roses of the same color next to each
other will enhance the over all look of the rose garden. Using too many flowers in one area
though, can make the entire rose garden look more jumbled than a wave of color.
One last thing for you to think about when creating and planning a rose garden is to remember to
test your soil. Soil testers are widely available and relatively inexpensive. When testing your
soil, your pH level is going to be most important for success with roses. A pH level of 5.5 to
6.6 is the ultimate situation for raising a rose garden of your own.
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