Oh hold up! No, there are plenty of different types of roses. We just held a Facebook Live event with our resident expert, Karen Jurgensen, and boy, let me tell ya… I learned a lot and for those folks who haven’t seen it, the video lives on our Facebook page HERE. It’s well worth the watch if you want to grow great roses!
There are rugosa roses, floribunda, grandiflora and more. Watch Karen’s video and check out our LEARN article on the different types of roses. PS, the Hybrid Teas carry one flower per stem and require the most care in our climate (they are hardy to zone 6 or 7), grandifloras also have one flower per stem but the flowers are grand aka large. FloriBUNDA gives an aBUNDAnce of flowers on one stem and rugosa shrub roses are the hardiest.
Oso Easy ‘Urban Legend’ shrub rose
One common problem, Karen says, is roses that do not get enough sunshine! Roses, all of them, prefer 8 hours of sun or more. They’re also heavy feeders. When planting give them a dose of mycorrhizae.
Those cool tree roses aren’t hardy here! Karen says put them in the garage beginning around Thanksgiving and bring them out sometime around Easter. Make sure you continue to water it and protect the graft union from freezing. (You can see the graft union on the video)
It’ a little known fact… The oldest living rose is located outside a church in Germany and is believed to have been planted sometime around 1300!! Our own roses can live 30 to 40 years if well cared for.
Karen’s Quick Tips:
- Prune only one-third of your shrub at a time
- Use red cedar mulch to deter insects – an organic method!
- Don’t fertilize your rose when you FIRST plant it, Gertens roses already have a slow release fertilizer in with the pot you purchased. You can burn those feeder roots if you add more.
- Use Rose-tone, an organic slow-release fertilizer the following spring and then after the first flush of flowers.
These are but a few of Karen’s tips!
Foribunda rose ‘Ketchup and Mustard’
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