Seven Groups of Roses
Hybrid Tea
The Hybrid Tea is available in standard and bush. With their long stems and beautiful blooms it is no wonder that this is the most popular variety of rose for the home garden. Flowers are medium-to-large in size, with numerous petals formed into a central cone. Each stem boasts a single bloom, with or without side blooms.
Care Guide – General care for your Hybrid Tea.
Gardenia – Creating gardens with a selection of colors and fragrance.
Handsome Hybrid Tea Roses – Discover these flowers from Master Roasarian Nanette Londeree.
How often should I fertilize? – Answers to your rose questions at the Iowa State University.
Wikipedia – The Hybrid Tea according to the Internet encyclopedia.
Winter Care – How to care for your Hybrid Tea and Shrub Rose during the colder months.
How to prune a Hybrid Tea rose.
Floribunda
Rose blooms are in clusters in this second-most-popular variety. Although the flowers may not be as shapely as the Hybrid Tea, the abundance of blooms make these roses a nice choice for the bedding garden.
Fabulous Floribunda Roses – This article was originally published in “Rose Ecstasy,” bulletin of Santa Clarita Valley Rose Society, Kitty Belendez, Editor.
Floribunda Care Guide – General care for your Floribunda Roses.
Floribunda Roses – An introduction from Landscape America.
Pruning Floribunda & Hybrid Tea Roses – Rose pruning ensures that plants grow vigorously and flower well each year.
Wikipedia – The Floribunda Rose according to Wikipedia.
Patio Roses
Growing Patio Roses in Containers – If you are looking to grow patio roses in containers for your garden, then read on for this ‘crash course’ in how to do it.
Growing Roses in Containers – The seven things you need to know.
How To Care for Patio Tree Roses – Patio tree roses pack blooming beauty into an easy-care package.
Rose Problems – Learn how to deal with common rose troubles from the Missouri Botanical Garden.
What Is a Patio Rose?– A patio rose can be used as a general term for any rose grown in a container. Almost any rose can fit in that definition — even a climbing rose.
Miniature
These tiny roses are useful in pots, tubs, garden edging, or even potted up as a house plant.
7 Tips for Growing Miniature Roses – Miniature rose care from Master Class instuctor, Ron Finley.
Care Tips for Fabulous Miniature Roses – Miniature roses are often found side by side with cut flower bouquets – enticing you to gift a sick friend or celebrate a loved one, but don’t overlook them as an instant home décor accessory for yourself! Buy one or several, then get your mini-rose glam on with these tips.
Grow A Miniature Rose Indoors – Miniature roses, re-blooming shrubs that grow about 6 to 36 inches high, are as lovely as their full-size relatives and come in many colors and forms.
Mini Roses – Rules of thumb for successful miniatures.
Miniature Roses Guide – Tips for planting & caring for “Mini Roses”
Ground Cover
5 Ways to Design with Flower Carpet Roses – Apart from these ground cover roses beauty and sheer flower-power (once established, each plant can provide up to 2,000 flowers, blooming from spring through late fall) it’s an answer for all sorts of vexing landscaping issues. Here are a few ways to use them.
Easy Pruning Tips for Flower Carpet Roses – One of the beauties of Flower Carpet® roses is that they don’t require any fancy rose pruning.
Ground Cover Roses – General background and care of the variety.
How to Grow Flower Carpet Roses – Flower Carpet roses are truly unique because they grow low like a groundcover.
Climbers & Ramblers
Climbing or Rambler Roses For My Garden? – Tips to determine which is best for your garden.
Rambling Roses & Climbing Roses – What’s the difference?
Rose Insects & Related Pests – Numerous insects and related pests that attack roses can make growing them “interesting”, if not outright challenging.
Shrubs
Easy Shrub Roses You Can Grow – For effortless color, add carefree landscape roses to your garden.
Shrub Rose Type – Learn about pruning, winter care, and fertilizing.
The Advantages of Modern Shrub Roses – These shrub roses have high ornamental value with low maintenance and increased biodiversity
Beginners Guide: Choose a type of rose.
Books at Amazon
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Celebrate!
Garden Month – National Gardening Week was observed yearly in April until 2002 when the entire month of April was dedicated to “all things gardening”.
Plant A Flower Day – March 12 is Plant a Flower Day and the perfect opportunity to get ready for Spring!
Red Rose Day – National Red Rose Day is celebrated on June 12 to pay tribute to the love and romance of the iconic blooms.
Nature Photography Day – June 15 is designated by the North American Nature Photography Association to promote the enjoyment of nature photography, and to explain how images are used to aedvance the cause of conservation and protect plants, wildlife, and landscapes, both locally and globally.
More to Explore
The Rose Garden – Introducing these classic blooms for the home garden.
Pink & Purple Perennials – Resources and species selections for a garden that is pretty in hues of pink and purple.
Companion Planting – A handy chart, with tips and resources from my garden journal.
Backyarding has a purpose. What’s yours? – Backyarding – the trend to use the backyard for everything from tele-working and working out to relaxing and recreating – has a different purpose for each of us. Identifying your backyard’s role in your family’s health and happiness is the key to cultivating a purposeful outdoor space that is customized to your needs.
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