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my roses won't grow
Can you please give me tips on gardening??Because the roses i planted didn't grow and i was very dissapointed in them!! I wanted to give some to my mother too!! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Roses are gorgeous aren't they? They're not as difficult as all that. They will grow in pots but they're absolute water and feed hogs and never get to be the glorious things they get to be growing in the soil. You buy a small potted one. You can plant them mostly all year as long as the soil is 'open', meaning it's not got frost in it. Dig a BIG hole, twice the diameter and depth of the pot. Cut the pot off the rose you bought and gently 'tease out' the fine roots you seen with a dining fork. Easy! Dont pull all the soil off! Get some horse manure (rotted, NOT fresh) or if that's harder to get a general compost you can get from a garden centre is fine. Mix it up, about 2 parts compost to one part the soil you dug out and chuck some in, pop the new rose in and keep filling it with the nice rich mixture. Press it down firmly, but there's no need to stamp on it and go mad! You want to have about as much, but NO MORE above ground as was sticking out of the pot you bought it in. A case of nicely deep, but don't bury the thing! Water it in well. By summer it should have many nice new shoots and will flower the first summer. As each flower dies away, cut it off (called 'dead-heading'). That keeps it flowering for a nice long period. They'll stop flowering with the first frosts whatever, and begin to look pretty sorry for themselves, but relax. They ain't dying or dead! As winter starts to look like easing off (don't wait until spring properly starts) just go over it and cut back EVERY stem to a half to at most two thirds it's length. OK...after this it will look DRASTIC. You'll have a bunch of short, leafless 'sicks' poking up out of the ground and it looks pretty sad. That's EXACTLY how it's meant to look! Buy a top quality rose-food, they're like grains. Read the 'dose', measure it out and do what it says on the box. I put about an inch or two depth of well rotted horse manure around the base in a circle about 18 inches round at the same time. This is an old trick called 'mulching' and it really does work, even though you might think that it won't, as the roots are well underground. Then forget about the rose. It'll do it's thing come summer, and you do the same thing every year. They support themselves, unless it's a 'climber' or 'rambler' breed of rose. Then you need to give it a nice trellis to ramble or climb all over, naturally! I'm not a keen gardener by any means, but I wouldn't be without roses. I've got plenty that are 25 years old or more. Beautiful, and they really are much tougher and harder to kill than you think. ps. Don't pile on liquied feed and fertilisers or spary it with stuff that first spring/summer. Let it get what's called 'established' for a year. Good luck! pps. The same applies if you're growing them in pots. Make sure it's a MASSIVE pot, about twoo feet in diameter and about as deep. The like plenty of space! And you need to water and usually give them a liquid feed mixed in with the water while they're flowering, as often as it says on the bottle. In the ground, they really take care of themselves and do a lot better.
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Roses are a gorgeous choice! I would start off growing them in a pot then transplanting them to your garden or wherever else you'd like. They will be much easier to manage and control! I have posted a step by step link to a video that shows exactly how to grow perfect roses! Hope you have a full garden some day!!
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