I want to start a rose garden. How do I begin and with what kind of roses?

1. You begin by testing the soil where they will be and then add the necessary amenities. The soil preparation is very critical.


2. The roses you choose should be the ones that are best in your climate. Once you find the roses that grow best in your climate, choose from those. Personally, I like ones with a lot of fragrance and that climb along my fence.


3.Once they are established they are fairly hardy and take light regualar maintenance.

I want to start a rose garden. How do I begin and with what kind of roses?
I strongly suggest Jackson and Perkins roses. They are the best, and have a system of trade if the roses do badly.





Check out the area you live in for the biggest problem for roses and be prepared. Japanese beetles can destroy a rose bush in under a day if not controled. Black Spot will kill a rose in a season.





These are easy to deal with, if you start off on the right foot. Roses are NOT hard to grow! Keep them trimmed back though. Nothing is more sad that a spiny, thin rose bush that isn't cared for.





Best of luck!
Reply:Roses come in all shapes, sizes, colors and ease of care. There are roses that require weekly spraying with fungicides to look their best, and, just as importantly, there are roses that can flourish with little or no care. In a way, roses are like cars when it comes to the amount of trouble they are. There are cars that are very expensive, very fast and very temperamental. Not everyone can own a Porsche or a Ferrari. Not everyone wants to own such cars. It takes an inclination to tinker, a knowledgeable mechanic and lots of money to fall in love with some models of cars. And lots of time.





But it is also possible to latch onto a reliable car that, with minimal care, will last 100,000 miles. And so it is with roses.





The purpose of this article is to talk to you about some easy to grow roses that anyone putting in their first garden can successfully grow--and be proud of. Roses that take minimal care to produce maximum results. Roses for people who have never grown roses before. And roses that will cause your neighbors to come over to see how you are doing it.





Texas A%26amp;M has a continuing research project to find these roses. The roses that make the cut get their "EarthKind" designation. The process they go through to find these roses is interesting. First, they asked rose growers for the names of easy to care for roses. They then planted several examples of the roses in test gardens around the state. They did not water the roses. They did not fertilize the roses. They did not prune the roses. They did not even spray the roses--for insects or for fungus. And, believe it or not, some roses did fine under this intentional neglect. These are the roses that earned the EarthKind designation. Now, I am not recommending you just plant these roses and walk away. But these are roses that will survive if you do that. And they will flourish if you give them just minimal care.





What do I mean by minimal care? Plant them where they get a minimum of six hours of sun. Eight is better. Full sun is best. Give them an inch of water a week. Plant them in raised beds. Add three or four inches of mulch to the top of the rosebed. Try to fertilize them a couple of times a year with organic fertilizer. Sit back and relax (and read the rest of my webpages on rose growing).





Below is an alphabetical list of the EarthKind roses, with my comments.
Reply:go to a local garden store, they can help you a lot more than anybody here can as they would be near where you live and want to start the garden and can tell you what kinds of roses grow best in the climate where you live.
Reply:as a master gardener, your best bet just starting out go with "double Delights" they are tri colored and beautiful. Buy from a gardening cataolog most purchases that way are gaurenteed. Dont buy from chain stores or grocery no telling how long thevye been there and how dried out they can be. Follow the instructions on planting and care when you recieve them

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