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Gardening question
Any tips on planting a rose bush? How deep? What kind of soil? Location? How often to water? TIA
Re: Gardening question
My MIL is the rosarian at Elizabeth Park so I feel by marriage I should be able to answer this question. Unfortunately I don't have all the knowledge that DH does so I'll try my best. You don't want it in direct all day sun. We have ours planted on the east side of the house and they get sun about 1/2 the day and do well. Don't go too deep when you plant and you want to mound the dirt up a little bit on top. You need to water EVERY day there isn't rain in the beginning until the roots get established. Roses like wet feet. Also, for fertilizer, my ILs swear by Ozmacot. I could be spelling it wrong. It's the only thing they use in their for their roses and they have over 150!
Any other questions, google the CT Rose Society.
Good luck, roses can be high maintainence.
I want to supliment a little of the above posters comments. 1. plant as deep as your rose variety suggests. there is a lot of difference between varieties!!! so you need to really follow the package instructions OR google the specific variety you have.
I don't believe that roses like "wet feet" they do however like their feet cooler than their "heads" with that said some varieties do VERY well in full sun some don't. but there are strategic ways to obtain cooler "feet" with rocks etc or shade that hits just right . FYI Clematis is exactly the same way.
The suggestion to water everyday it doesn't rain is a good one - because the rose needs to get established and can't stand to be stressed untill it is. However watering is a double edged sword....essentially it depends on your soil type. if you have clay based soil that doesn't drain well you wouldn't need to water as much and say sandy highly draining soil. So you need to becareful of just watering for the sake of watering. here its better to water deeply less often than to water shalowly frequently...
As for fertalizer - dig the initial hole deeper than it needs to be and work in some compost or comosted manure. Also I do like to use a combination fertalizer/pesticide...however this isn't at allll organic so its to your own preferance. I have two rose bushes that are reallllly prevalant to japanese beatles and these get the fetalizer pesticed combination (Pfizer makes it)
the bushes I have that are herilooms and more native to the area don't need it at all!!
OH and many many roses varieties are not high maintences.....all depends on what you bought.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write your responses! They were both very helpful! I got the bush in the ground, a couple questions came up though that might be stupid or obvious, so I'll apologize in advance.
1. Should I prune/trim the stems now? (they look dry on the ends)
2. Do roses really like bananas? I was told by someone else to throw a banana near it. I don't want to make it gross or attract critters.
Stephanie
No, don't prune the stems.
Yes, most plants like bananas.
Christy the compost/garden queen might give you a more in depth response, but that my 2 cents.