Tell me about growing roses

[spinbaby]

I’ve never really had much luck with roses, but this year I’m determined to grow a climbing rose on the arbor. It’s a sunny location with a deer problem. Zone 6.

I’ve ordered a climbing rose called Polka, a lovely apricot cabbage rose. My plan is to plant it on one side of the arbor with buckets of homemade compost in the hole and to spray deer repellent until the tasty bits of the rose have grown above deer reach.

What do I need to know to keep this rose happy?

[elleng]

1. Sorry I don't have any useful info for you,

have had 2 roses in large containers, NOT climbers, and one (Mr. Lincoln) was decimated by squirrels this past fall/winter, so I just replaced him with Lasting Love: https://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/103404/#b

Good luck!

[Botany]

2. Climbing Prairie Rose - Rosa setigera ..... good native

for all roses

Plenty of sun

H20 every 7 to 10 days fir the first year

Espoma rose food

prune after they ate done blooming

prune for good air circulation

no insecticides outside of insecticidal soap

chrysler imperial, peace, and don jaun are old stand by roses.

mix good compost w/the native soil @ 1 to 1 ratio

DO NOT PLANT THE ROSE TOO DEEP

[CrispyQ]

5. H20 every 7 to 10 days fir the first year

I wonder if I've been watering my roses too much? When it's +90° for days on end I water them every morning. Now they are out of control & way too tall (not climbing roses) & I don't know where to cut them back. I got one rose last year & 2 the year before.

[Botany]

6. water @a drip level for about 1 hour by putting a hose by the base of the plant

do not get water on the leaves when the sun is out.

temps >90 degrees water every 3 to 5 days

[Botany]

8. "fir the first year"

[CrispyQ]

3. I love roses! But I cannot grow a rose bush that flowers.

So I'm going to check back here & see what people say. It's rare to find a store bought rose that has any scent. WTF? That's part of the appeal of roses!

[TubbersUK]

4. Mine enjoy a good organic mulch each year at the start of the season - I use home made compost.

That's after feeding with chicken poo pellets or pure alfalfa pellets which I just throw around the roots.

I don't spray my climbing roses with insecticide or fungicide, they seem vigorous enough to overcome most problems.

If I notice aphids on them, I give just them a blast with slightly soapy water.


I'm zone 8.

ETA: when mulching, I don't mulch right up to the cane(s), I leave a few inches clear.

[WhiteTara]

7. full sun and right amount of water

[fierywoman]

9. Go to youtube! I learned a lot from this

guy and others there( I also love the old English gentleman). What I learned about climbers is that you need to make it grow horizontal or max 45 degree angle to get it to flower ... here's one vid:

[spinbaby]

10. Thank you

That was very helpful

[Runningdawg]

11. I have a black thumb

but people stop and admire my roses. Go figure, I buy them at discount stores and pretty much ignore them. The one thing I do, I saw my dad do growing up - I dump the cold ashes from the charcoal grill on them.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Roses...

Glad to hear you brought yourself one. Hope you enjoy. My trick in prolonging the blooms (afterward each bloom) is to cut back (beneath the dying flower) to just above the prior 5 leaf clump. This will keep the blooms coming (new shoots will sprout out from above the cut). I do this pretty regularly so the rose bush keeps putting out flowers:

rose branch ===> flower

rose branch ===> old flower, dying

rose branch ===> clump of 5 leaves //// this is where you have cut the old dead flower

rose branch ===> clump of 5 leaves //// new shoots!!

And I cut above all clumps of 5 leaves. I'm sorry I can't take or find a pic quickly, but I have had lots and lots of flowers and neighbors admiring. Simple to do. Lots of sun, don't overwater or get water on the plant itself, maybe fertilize occasionally (I usually didn't worry about too much, soil where my roses were was undisturbed for a while, so soil had a chance to rebuild until I moved in.

Don't let mulch around the base of the rose plant pile up against the plant stem. Keep area around stem free of mulch and allow plant to 'breathe'.

Climbing roses? Eh, almost too much to prune constantly, it keep growing and growing and growing. I ended up taking it out because it was sprawling all over the place.

Good luck w/ your rose(s) and enjoy. I did, when I had (we took them out due to reconstruction going on) and take care.

Good luck and enjoy!!

[Major Nikon]

13. Expanding on this

Look for a bulbous section near the intersection of the roots and stem. If it has this it means the rose has been grafted, which is quite common for commercial rosebushes. You want to make sure the graft doesn't get buried. If it does the grafted section will die and the rose bush will revert to whatever the wild rosebush roots it has. You also want to prune any canes that appear from below the graft.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. Good point too. Take care, NT

[trueblue2007]

15. Help. i have aphids on my grandma's roses

best and easy way to get rid of them ?

[stopwastingmymoney]

16. Ladybugs, you can buy them at the nursery, and it's fun too