Allan’s 10 Keys To Success with Roses

1. Select a location with at least 6 hours of full sun, yet sheltered from hot and cold winds. Give them plenty of space to allow for good air circulation around the plants. Space them no less than three feet apart for shrub roses and 5 feet apart for climbers.
2. Place roses in soils that are slightly acidic, amended with organic matter, well-drained, and deeply spaded or tilled.
3. Mulch your roses with 2 inches of cotton bur compost or finely ground pine bark as soon as they are planted to prevent weeds and protect the soil from drying out.
4. Fertilize roses with a controlled-release fertilizer in March and again after the first flush of blooms has faded.
5. Water roses with drip irrigation or soaker hoses to prevent wet leaves from developing fungal problems like black spots and powdery mildew. Never let them dry out!
6. Spray roses when black spot fungus disease appears and continue on a weekly basis until warm and dry conditions lessen disease incidence.
7. Be on the lookout for aphids, spider mites, thrip, leaf beetles, and other pests that attack roses and spray with approved insecticides according to the label directions.
8. Pinch off spent blossoms with fingers or small pruners to keep energy from going into seedpod (rose hips) production.
9. When cutting blooms for a bouquet, leave at least two sets of five leaflets on the stem from which new shoots can develop for future flowers.
10. Use all types of roses, hybrid teas, floribunda, grandiflora, shrub landscape roses, and climbers, for a summer-long succession of colorful and fragrant flowers!

My Favorite Varieties!

HYBRID TEA ROSES

• Peace, or Bella Roma (J.P.)
• Yellow Pink
• Tiffany, Pink
• Queen Elizabeth, Pink
• Touch of Class, Coral Pink to Salmon
• Just Joey, Apricot
• Crimson Bouquet, Red
• Tropicana, Salmon Red
• Double Delight, Red White
• Fragrant Cloud, Coral Red
• Sheer Bliss, Cream White
• Midas Touch, Yellow
• Honor, White
• Pope John Paul II, White

CLIMBER ROSES

• Zepherine Drouhin, Pink
• New Dawn, Pink
• Climbing Iceberg, White
• Golden Showers, Yellow
• Climbing Peace, Yellow Pink
• Don Juan, Red
• America, Salmon Pink
• Joseph Coat, Orange
• Blaze Improved, Red
• Eden, Pink
• Fourth of July, Red, and White stripsIceburg climber, White

LANDSCAPE ROSES

• Belinda’s Dream, Pink
• Carefree Wonder, Pink
• Flower Carpet Pink, Pink
• Carefree Delight, Rose
• Carefree Beauty, Pink
• Julia Child, Yellow Orange
• Royal Bonica, Pink
• Home Run, Red
• Knock Out, Red, Pink, White, Single, and Double
• Simplicity, Red, Pink, White
• Sea Foam, Cream White
• The Fairy, Pink
• Living Easy, Yellow Orange
• Sunsprite, Yellow
• Gaye Hammond, Yellow
• Lady Elsie May, Pink
• Iceberg, White, and Pink
• Drift Series, Coral, and Red
• Easy Elegance Series, Red, Coral, Pink, Yellow, and Whites

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