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Roses
I read in a paper the other day that the rose had been voted the most popular as the gardeners favourite flower and I have to admit it's one of my favourites as a visit to my garden would show you the many varieties I have growing. The rose has been popular since the middle ages, it was grown in monasteries for medical uses and also for their religious ceremonies. This was an old type of rose which was a cross between the French rose and the wild roses and of course the old Lancaster rose, after lots of cultivation and many years of rose growing there are now lots of different kinds of roses to choose from if you're a fan of this lovely flower.
Roses fall into different categories and these are the Hybrid tea roses, the Old roses, the Floribunda, the Climbers or Ramblers, the Wild Roses and the Miniature roses. I love the Hybrid Tea roses as these have a spectacular
vivid colour range and the scent seems to linger around the garden, the miniatures and the other varieties seem to have a more subtle scent, which you have to be sitting near to catch a smell of.
Climbing roses are great for the covering of the fences and can also be grown to add colour to a boring hedgerow around the garden, a climbing rose will grow in most places and will soon make itself a dominant feature to your edges of the garden. I love the pinks and have pink and white varieties around the hedges of my garden, not only does it brighten up the place, it also makes people think twice about climbing over your hedges as these can leave nasty little scratches for any intruder. I find the best and quick growing climbing roses are :- Rosa x harisonnii, which is a lovely bright yellow, the Rosa x highdownensis which has a bright pink colour and the Rosa alba which has tiny little white flowers.
The Hybrid Tea rose is quite a spectacular blooming rose, it has large flowers and stands high in the garden, with usually a strong scent and amazing colour, definitely one of my favourites in the garden as it adds colour and brightens the place up, cutting off the dead blooms as soon as they have faded allows the plant to produce more flowers for a nicer display, this is called dead heading. I love to bring the large blooms into the house to brighten up the rooms over the summer months. If your into roses then finding a Blue Moon rose or a Duke of Windsor will show you just how lovely these plants are, I also like the Alexander rose which is a deep orangey red colour, but if you have the time to look up the one's I have mentioned you will be able to see the one's I have in my garden.
I also have little miniatures in the bedding area's and in pots scattered around the gazebo area, I especially like the one called little flirt, not only do I love the name but I love the colour too. These can be easily grown in pots inside or out for added display.
Garden centres are great places to find a wide variety of colours and names of roses, but be prepared to shell out anything from £2.99 upwards, depending on the variety and size of the rose on sale. I find the best way of getting yourself a nice rose is to take a cutting from your friends gardens, or find them at the boot sales for a cheaper price. Taking cuttings from a rose is easy, cut a stem which is none flowering in about September, strip off all the leaves apart from two at the top and then make a hole in the ground where you want your plant to grow, add a little manure and then plant the stem up to the top leaves, water well and you will soon see it set in and grow into another rose bush or plant. Pruning is easy too I just chop my roses down in the autumn to about three or four inches from the bottom of the plant to encourage more growth for the next year.
Although roses are plagued by some pests these are easy to take care of with sprays, the commonest one is the greenfly and some caterpillars like to have a nibble but again sprays and a careful eye can easily take care of the pests, they are also prone to diseases like black spot which appears on the leaves, there is also powdered mildew and die back which is a fungus but again there are sprays you can buy at the garden centre for all the diseases your plant might pick up.
Even though they do get the occasional hiccup with pests of disease, the rose has to be one of the most popular flowers in the garden and well worth the effort of growing.
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I love my roses and just keep cramming them in. You can never have too many!
I enjoyed the review as it was informative and easy to read, but I never use chemical sprays. I rely on garlic and mulching to keep fungal diseases at a reasonable level. Emma.
memphisto_chick 25.07.2006 01:18
Love roses had white roses for my bouquet when I got married, great review.
Jul 24th, 2006
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