Check out this demonstration to see how to do it:
Moving Shrubs.mp4
Tips for successfully moving a shrub or small tree from one place in your landscape to another.
Showing posts with label Rose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rose. Show all posts
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Video: Tips for Moving Small Shrubs
This quick video provides some simple tips for moving small shrubs, such as rose bushes, to minimize damage to the plant, and make it easier on you as well. Ideally, plants should be moved in the fall or winter to allow the root system to reestablish in the new location before summer comes along and the plant needs deeper roots to pull up the water during hot weather.
Check out this demonstration to see how to do it:
Moving Shrubs.mp4
Tips for successfully moving a shrub or small tree from one place in your landscape to another.
Check out this demonstration to see how to do it:
Moving Shrubs.mp4
Tips for successfully moving a shrub or small tree from one place in your landscape to another.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Ideas for Designing Your Rose Garden
The use of landscape roses can make the exterior of any house more graceful, fragrant and inviting. Selecting the right varieties to compliment and accent the home's style and your vision, will contribute to the success of your landscape and rose garden design.
Finding the perfect roses for your rose garden is not hard at all because of the the diverse varieties roses come in. The problem lies in choosing the right ones for your landscape needs and the design you wish to attain.
Roses come in a number of classes. Each class holds characteristics that make them a great choice for use as landscape ornamentals. If you'd like to have roses growing up and over a trellis or archway or cascading from window boxes, the tall growing tea roses are a perfect choice. Tea roses are known for their wild growing blooms and all who walk under the archway enjoy a beautiful display of roses.
If a trellis is not available and you're looking to accent a wall, then choose a true climbing rose. The beauty of a true climbing rose allows you train the plant into many different looks and effects. In essence you can train it any way you want it to grow.
The Floribunda rose is an excellent choice when a vibrant splash of background color is what you're looking for. The popular Floribunda rose varieties give all this color in the landscape with their large and breathtaking sprays of blooms.
The versatile rose can also be used as a ground cover or planted in front of other plants to give color and accent. They can also be used as stand alone specimens and trained into a small tree or planted as hedges. Rugosa roses are a good choice for this.
The goal or impact of the rose is not the varieties or ways it can be grown but the colors they offer in the living gardening palette. What gardeners want are healthy rose plants that deliver impact in many sizes, styles, textures, colors and shapes. When considering your design for your rose garden choose the complimentary colors for your surrounding landscape. A simple arrangement of pink roses delivers the perfect compliment to a stone or marble entrance way or drive. White tea roses offer a striking contrast against a dark red brick home. Roses come in so many colors it should be easy to find colors which compliment and enhance any decorating or landscape design you come up with.
Designing your rose garden will be exciting and challenging to say the least. Incorporate your own color favorites and mix styles and textures for an interesting appeal.
Roses do well in a variety of temperature zones and climates so make sure you choose the varieties suitable to the area in which you live. This translates into fewer maintenance issues, and fewer pests and disease issues promoting overall a healthier rose garden.
More Rose Garden Design Ideas:
Finding the perfect roses for your rose garden is not hard at all because of the the diverse varieties roses come in. The problem lies in choosing the right ones for your landscape needs and the design you wish to attain.
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| 'Singin' In the Rain', a floribunda rose. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
If a trellis is not available and you're looking to accent a wall, then choose a true climbing rose. The beauty of a true climbing rose allows you train the plant into many different looks and effects. In essence you can train it any way you want it to grow.
The Floribunda rose is an excellent choice when a vibrant splash of background color is what you're looking for. The popular Floribunda rose varieties give all this color in the landscape with their large and breathtaking sprays of blooms.
The versatile rose can also be used as a ground cover or planted in front of other plants to give color and accent. They can also be used as stand alone specimens and trained into a small tree or planted as hedges. Rugosa roses are a good choice for this.
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| Lili Marlene floribunda rose (Photo credit: digiteyes) |
Designing your rose garden will be exciting and challenging to say the least. Incorporate your own color favorites and mix styles and textures for an interesting appeal.
Roses do well in a variety of temperature zones and climates so make sure you choose the varieties suitable to the area in which you live. This translates into fewer maintenance issues, and fewer pests and disease issues promoting overall a healthier rose garden.
More Rose Garden Design Ideas:
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
All About Roses
The most well-known of all flowering plants you could grow in your garden has got to be the rose. The rose plant can spark a quick conversation amongst even the shyest of persons. Almost anyone can tell you of someone they know who has grown beautiful roses or of someone who couldn't. Almost anyone can tell you of someone who got or sent roses, especially around the holidays. Even little children know what the rose plant is.
Your local florist most likely has dozens of colors, types, and sizes of roses. It would seem to be the best selling flower of all time. The local discount store and even the local grocer carries some sort of rose these days. There are even books written just about roses!
In my personal opinion, the best rose is one that has a strong scent. A rose has a most distinct smell, and a scent welcome to most anyone. The fragrance is like no other and has been reproduced in hundreds (if not thousands) of perfumes and air fresheners for years. There are rose-scented oils and lotions, bath products, soaps, and shampoos. There are rose colors and rose images galore. You can find rose parades and people named Rose (like me!) :-). You can even come out "smelling like a rose". All because of a mere plant that reached enormous proportions of popularity.
The rose plant is available in a wide variety of colors, sizes, and types. It is known and grown worldwide. The prices vary depending on where you buy or what type and size you want.
Do you want a rose plant already started in a pot? You may have to repot it, so make sure you do your homework before you buy one.
When you decide what type of rose plant you'd like in your garden, think of placement. There is a plant called the thornless rose plant that will grow in the shade. But most rose plants are known to have thorns, so you wouldn't want your small child or grandchild or frequent tiny visitors to happen upon something that is so pretty that they can't resist grabbing and end up with an unwelcome handful of thorns. It may even sour them on the enjoyment of the rose plant for life because of a tearful memory. And roses are too beautiful to allow such a thing!
There are climbing rose plants which you most certainly wouldn't want trailing across the ground to be stomped by animals or other foot traffic. Some roses are delicate and unfiltered light would cook their leaves to an unlovely brown. If your rose plant is the type that grows into a bush, you would want to place it in a spot that allows for it to spread.
As you can see, deciding where you would like to plant your roses is an important consideration that is largely determined by the type of rose you are planting, so it will require some research and careful planning. But for rose-lovers everywhere, it is a job that is well-worth the work.
Rose Gardening Resources:
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| Cover of Beautiful Roses |
In my personal opinion, the best rose is one that has a strong scent. A rose has a most distinct smell, and a scent welcome to most anyone. The fragrance is like no other and has been reproduced in hundreds (if not thousands) of perfumes and air fresheners for years. There are rose-scented oils and lotions, bath products, soaps, and shampoos. There are rose colors and rose images galore. You can find rose parades and people named Rose (like me!) :-). You can even come out "smelling like a rose". All because of a mere plant that reached enormous proportions of popularity.
The rose plant is available in a wide variety of colors, sizes, and types. It is known and grown worldwide. The prices vary depending on where you buy or what type and size you want.
Do you want a rose plant already started in a pot? You may have to repot it, so make sure you do your homework before you buy one.
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| Bagatelle Rose Garden (Paris, France). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
There are climbing rose plants which you most certainly wouldn't want trailing across the ground to be stomped by animals or other foot traffic. Some roses are delicate and unfiltered light would cook their leaves to an unlovely brown. If your rose plant is the type that grows into a bush, you would want to place it in a spot that allows for it to spread.
As you can see, deciding where you would like to plant your roses is an important consideration that is largely determined by the type of rose you are planting, so it will require some research and careful planning. But for rose-lovers everywhere, it is a job that is well-worth the work.
Rose Gardening Resources:
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