Planting And Caring For Your Tea Roses
Tea roses, from which our modern roses sprang, are unfortunately not for the Northern garden. If you live where zero temperatures come often in winter and where cold spells hang on for a week or more at a time, you must leave these tender roses to gardens for the South. They do best in states bordering the Gulf Coast, in California and in the Southeastern States. Would you like to grow roses with a minimum of care? Roses that in north Louisiana are evergreen and bloom ten months of the year? Roses with foliage in spring colored from pink or chartreuse to blood and bronze red, making of the plant almost a bouquet? Then grow TEA roses. Tea roses are pleasant roses, for they are almost thornless, they grow to very large bushes, and require no pruning except for weak wood or to shape the bush. Tea roses are so variable in form and color that walking in the garden is one happy surprise. Although they are not finicky as to soil, they should, like all roses, be planted where they are well drained. My main rose garden is on a slope, shaded from the west by pine trees. The roses should have half a day of sun, but I have some growing close by the side of my house that only get four hours sun a day. These plants are smaller when they come from the grower than the average hybrid tea. I plant my roses with common sense, digging deeply and using plenty of humus in the hole, tamping in well but gently, being careful not to break or bruise the roots. No plant is any better than its roots. I plant the bud union three or four inches deeper than it was before, for I want the plants to grow their own roots, which in the course of time they do. I am planting for the years to come, for tea roses live to great age. Find 100’s of Topics – Articles in the 1000’s at Plant-Care.com: National Safety PassportNo related posts.
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