Pink Garden Roses
Pink garden roses will make a beautiful addition to any dinner party table, all you need are three arrangement techniques.
Three Tier Stem Arrangement
The first arrangement for your pink garden roses is a three tier stem arrangement. This arrangement is easy, simply make sure to cut the pink garden roses' stems at different points: one inch from the bottom of the stem; two inches from the bottom of the stem, and two and a half- inches from the bottom of the stem.
Vases
The second tip for arranging pink garden roses for a dinner party table is the vase. You want to buy a crystal white vase, or a blue or dark red, pink and blue pattern vase. The vase should be about two feet, no more than two feet and three inches.
Additional Flowers Arrangement
The third tip for arranging pink garden roses for a dinner party table is to add additional flowers for a fuller look. Flowers like tulips, white roses, sunflowers, and apple blossoms will make a great addition. For every third pink garden rose add an additional flower in between.
Filling the Vase With Water
The fourth tip for arranging pink garden roses for a dinner party table is making sure to fill the flower vase with 2/3 cup of warm water, 3 tablespoons of lemon and orange juice, and 1 teaspoon of 7Up. Mix the ingredients together before filling the flower vase with water. Sit in the refrigerator an hour before the dinner party.
Potted Roses
The Joys of Potted Roses.
Roses are flowers which everyone loves for their beauty and fragrant smell. For many of us, the love affair ends after October, and the gardener works to prepare the garden for next year's yield. Growing roses is a year-round task that is labor intensive and the blooms are available only for a short period of time. Growing roses in pots can be advantageous in that they can be moved easily indoors during cold months, and can occupy a small area of space on the porch or balcony.
One hard and fast rule about planting roses in pots is that nothing else should be grown except roses in its specific pot. Also, there should be no more than three root stems so as to not choke the growth pattern of the blooms. For the potting soil, I recommend WonderBloom potting mix and large terracotta porch pots. Floribundas and the hybrid teas do well in pots and bloom like crazy with proper fertilizing and watering. It would be good to use bare root roses for this project and soak them in a bucket for about eight to twelve hours to allow the roots to re-hydrate.
Make sure that the potting hole is deep enough to rest the plant in comfortably, allowing the root ball to grow and properly expand. It would be good to also cover the plants with paper until the initial growth begins. Watering and care is crucial and check the plant daily for proper moisture levels, and root growth.
Preparing Roses for Winter
Make sure when you are purchasing your rose bush it states that it is a winter hardy variety. Preparing your roses for winter will not be a tedious task, if you take proper care of them before the cold sets in. Healthy roses, free of disease, well fertilized all season, and pruned properly, will stand a better chance of surviving the winter months.
Choosing a plant location helps protect it from the northern winds and cold, so try picking a sunny, well-drained area. If possible, shelter your rose by planting it by a house, building, tool shed, or high hedge, for maximum protection.
Different winter protection tips also depend on what type of rose you have, with certain varieties needing more protection than others.
For hybrid tea roses, the first thing you want to do is remove any diseased, weak, or spindly type wood canes, leaving 3 to 5 healthy ones for the coming spring. Hybrid tea roses should be pruned down to around 12" to 18" in height, and also covered with enough mulch to protect it from the wind and cold. Tea roses need soil and mulch piled up about 8" around the graft since this is a weak point in the plant.
Shrub roses need to be covered all around the base for best protection, with at least 3" to 4" of fresh mulch. These need to be protected from the wind and should be fertilized at least a few weeks before the soil freezes and winter sets in.
With climber roses, care should be taken as the canes need to be laid down for the winter, and covered with mulch. In the spring, they will be lifted back up and attached again, but need that extra protection as the canes will freeze if exposed to the cold temperatures. This is the best solution for these type of roses.
If using plastic cones, or any type of cone covering for your roses, care should be taken to make sure their are ventilation openings so the plant has some air.
Give all roses a good watering before the ground completely freezes.
Mulch is your best coverage for the cold winter months, providing the best protection for roots, grafts, and bases of your roses. Grass clippings are not suggested as they hold water and mats down easily, which in some cases, will smother the plant.
To know more about prepraring roses for winter have a look at the ebook here.
Types of Roses
It is said that the oldest living rose thrives on a wall at the Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany, believing to be over 1,000 years old.
The largest white flowered rosebush which blooms yearly in Tombstone, Arizona, is called Lady Banksia. It's original root came from Scotland, back in 1885, and spreads itself across an arbor with a diameter of 8,000 square feet.
There are many different types and varieties of roses found all over the world today, and below you will find a few of the most used and well known.
Mini Roses - These roses are much smaller, more compact, with blooms ranging in size from 1/2" to 2" in width. Mini Roses can be grown in containers and placed on porches, patios, decks, or on the kitchen counter for a beautiful display.
Hybrid Tea Roses - Tea Roses grow very long stems with one flower to a stem, and are considered winter hardy. Height can range anywhere from 3' to 6' high and are a favorite at Valentine's day at the florist.
Climbing Roses - These roses have very long canes which help it climb, and side shoots, which produce the flowers. Training and pruning are necessary to develop it's beautiful appearance and encourage more shoots. Climbing roses should be anchored to a heavy duty trellis, fence, or archway, which help support the weight. These look beautiful hanging over framed doorways, and can be trained to cascade over brick or stone walls, making their debut with a magnificent display of color.
Shrub or Bush Roses - Shrub roses are more dense in appearance and are normally the seen used in general landscaping work. Bush roses are grouped together usually by hardiness, type of growth, and flowering habits. Tree roses are part of the bush rose family. Size for either depends on the particular species, with some very low to the ground, and others growing higher to make hedges.
Roses are very susceptible to a variety of insects, and care should be taken along these lines to have a healthy, beautiful, flowering plant for your yard.
White Garden Roses
A Simple White Garden Design
When it comes to planning a garden design for white roses, think simple. There are three design gardening schemes you can use for your white garden roses.
Color Scheme
When considering a simple color scheme for your white garden roses, the first thing you should consider is different types of white. There are different shades of white when it comes to white garden roses. There is a light white color#23, dark white roses, and white roses with blue, gray and green lines in its petals. If you can't tell one white garden rose from another, call your local society for information.
Box Design Scheme
Another thing to consider when making a simple garden roses design is a box design scheme. For this you need to plant roses in different type of garden boxes or pots and then group them together for a more aesthetically. Put the boxes in a triangle, square or rectangle design or for a more sophisticated look, consider doing a box triangle, then circle it with a square and then a rectangle design.
Add Color to the Dirt
Add food dye to your dirt, to give your white garden roses an extra beautiful look. Food dye will not hurt your roses and food dye will give an additional lovely look to your dirt and roses. For white roses you can add two drops of either blue, red, or green food dye or mix up the color or a pink dye. Also consider blue or red gardening pots.
