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This book provides you with an overview of the history of roses and their varieties, as well as some broad guidelines to help you care for your roses gardening. Roses do require regular attention to keep the plant looking its best but, after learning the proper steps to take in caring for roses, helping a plant to look its best is easy.
Every rose -- no matter what kind -- needs six hours of sunlight per day in order to develop to its fullest. While roses do need six hours of sunlight a day, it doesn't have to be continual sunlight. This may seem hard for those of us in certain parts of the country to realize, but every segment of the nation has clouds now and then.
Roses love water, but they hate standing in pools of water. Make sure that the area around them drains well. Water your roses early in the day so the leaves have time to dry before nightfall. If the leaves don't dry before night, your plant may develop a fungal disease. Roses will bloom and look their best if it is well watered.
Fertilizing is an excellent method of ensuring your rose receives its share of nourishment to keep it looking beautiful for years to come. You'll want to buy what's known as a complete fertilizer. This contains nitrogen, phosphate, and potash. The ratio of these nutrients is always indicated on the package in just that order. Nitrogen is always listed first, then the phosphate content, and then potash.
If you spy a fertilizer bag in your favorite home-improvement store that has 10-5-5, you know automatically that it contains 10 percent nitrogen, 5 percent phosphate, and 5 percent potash.
Plants feed on nutrients that are produced by organisms living in the soil. By over using man-made fertilizer you can smother those beneficial bugs. Plus, your plants can become dependant on fertilizers forcing you to constantly provide them.
Owners can apply a slow-release fertilizer to the soil just as the plant is coming out of its dormancy period in early spring. You can fertilize it lightly after the blooms go away and the plant is storing up energy for next season. But do not fertilize your rose about six to eight weeks before you expect your first fall frost.
Pruning is extremely important in the care of roses. It is usually done in the spring, after the plant has been dormant for the winter. At this stage pruning is done to remove the dead, broken, or diseased wood from the plant. This helps to provide the plant with space for the air can move through it as well as keeping it healthy.
Pruning the actual flowers themselves encourages growth and by removing the flower buds it helps to establish a new plant.
Budding is a term rosarians use when a portion of one plant is grafted onto the rootstock of another, instead of growing on the original plant's roots.
Many commercial growers believe that roses grow better using this method. First, the plants take less time to establish their root systems. And second, the growers enjoy a larger percent of roses thriving on the rootstock than they do with roses on their original stock. The growers simply take the canes (or branches) from the one rose plant, cut off the bud eye at the junction of the cane and leaflet, and then insert it under the bark of the cane of a rootstock plant.
When the canes and foliage above the bud are cut off, all the plant's energy is then focused on making the newly budded eye grow. Bud eyes from the desired variety have all the genetic material to create a new plant identical to the original. The point at which the bud is inserted into the bark of the rootstock plant is called the “bud union.” On mature plants, the bud union looks very similar to a knob. As the plant grows in your garden, new, large canes grow from directly above this bud union.
Roses are susceptible to three types of the many diseases affects plants: Black Spot, Powdery and Downy Mildews, and Rose Rust. Each of these is a fungus infection.
At the very first sign of disease, apply the fungicide. You may even want to take preventive measures by applying the fungicide if you know that hot and humid weather is approaching.
Every rose -- no matter what kind -- needs six hours of sunlight per day in order to develop to its fullest. While roses do need six hours of sunlight a day, it doesn't have to be continual sunlight. This may seem hard for those of us in certain parts of the country to realize, but every segment of the nation has clouds now and then.
Roses love water, but they hate standing in pools of water. Make sure that the area around them drains well. Water your roses early in the day so the leaves have time to dry before nightfall. If the leaves don't dry before night, your plant may develop a fungal disease. Roses will bloom and look their best if it is well watered.
Fertilizing is an excellent method of ensuring your rose receives its share of nourishment to keep it looking beautiful for years to come. You'll want to buy what's known as a complete fertilizer. This contains nitrogen, phosphate, and potash. The ratio of these nutrients is always indicated on the package in just that order. Nitrogen is always listed first, then the phosphate content, and then potash.
If you spy a fertilizer bag in your favorite home-improvement store that has 10-5-5, you know automatically that it contains 10 percent nitrogen, 5 percent phosphate, and 5 percent potash.
Plants feed on nutrients that are produced by organisms living in the soil. By over using man-made fertilizer you can smother those beneficial bugs. Plus, your plants can become dependant on fertilizers forcing you to constantly provide them.
Owners can apply a slow-release fertilizer to the soil just as the plant is coming out of its dormancy period in early spring. You can fertilize it lightly after the blooms go away and the plant is storing up energy for next season. But do not fertilize your rose about six to eight weeks before you expect your first fall frost.
Pruning is extremely important in the care of roses. It is usually done in the spring, after the plant has been dormant for the winter. At this stage pruning is done to remove the dead, broken, or diseased wood from the plant. This helps to provide the plant with space for the air can move through it as well as keeping it healthy.
Pruning the actual flowers themselves encourages growth and by removing the flower buds it helps to establish a new plant.
Budding is a term rosarians use when a portion of one plant is grafted onto the rootstock of another, instead of growing on the original plant's roots.
Many commercial growers believe that roses grow better using this method. First, the plants take less time to establish their root systems. And second, the growers enjoy a larger percent of roses thriving on the rootstock than they do with roses on their original stock. The growers simply take the canes (or branches) from the one rose plant, cut off the bud eye at the junction of the cane and leaflet, and then insert it under the bark of the cane of a rootstock plant.
When the canes and foliage above the bud are cut off, all the plant's energy is then focused on making the newly budded eye grow. Bud eyes from the desired variety have all the genetic material to create a new plant identical to the original. The point at which the bud is inserted into the bark of the rootstock plant is called the “bud union.” On mature plants, the bud union looks very similar to a knob. As the plant grows in your garden, new, large canes grow from directly above this bud union.
Roses are susceptible to three types of the many diseases affects plants: Black Spot, Powdery and Downy Mildews, and Rose Rust. Each of these is a fungus infection.
At the very first sign of disease, apply the fungicide. You may even want to take preventive measures by applying the fungicide if you know that hot and humid weather is approaching.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940013638532 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Helen Porter |
| Publication date: | 10/18/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 78 |
| File size: | 672 KB |
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