Roses

Some tips and tricks, ideas and suggestions for looking after roses and rose gardens, like how to prune roses

Rose Garden – Plot out and prepare the area

Posted by on Dec 31, 2006 in Garden, Roses | 2 comments

After my wife and I decided on the area where we were going to plant our rose garden, here are the steps I followed to prepare the area for planting: Cut out and remove grass I followed the same steps I used when creating the herb garden. Go check out what I did by reading the following articles:Herb Garden – Step 1 – Mark out your area Herb Garden – Step 2 – Remove the grass Create proper edges Using the spade, I created really defined (and about 15cm deep) edges for the rose garden. I wanted a properly defined area, where the grass and the soil would not meet. I...

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Creating a Rose Garden

Posted by on Dec 31, 2006 in Garden, Roses | 1 comment

Everybody loves roses, right? So I decided to add a rose garden to my garden. In the next few articles, I’ll show you what I did, and give you all the tips for caring for roses that I picked up from the Rose Garden specialist who sold me the roses. As I write the articles, I’ll add a link to the bottom of this article as an index/reference point for all my Rose Garden articles… Perhaps bookmark this page so you can come back to it, and maybe see how my garden is going, as I plan on posting updates and lessons learned as I go along. Of course, if you have any of your own...

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