A Basic Guide to Rose's
Pruning rose bushes can be overwhelming and confusing to many gardeners, Proper Pruning and training is the best way to keep your Rose bushes healthy blooming and looking their best. General pruning principles apply to all roses, but there are differences between classes. Hybrid teas require the most severe pruning for optimum bloom and plant health. We have included several different species below. The main cutting tool is a good pair of bypass pruning shears, because they make a cleaner cut. A pair of long handled bypass loppers or a pruning saw may be necessary for large canes.
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- Pruning Rose Bushes
- Training Climbing Roses
- Black Spot on Roses
- Rose Soaring Spirits (45007)
- Don Juan
- The Fairy
- Rainbow's End
- Angel Face
- Scotch Rose
- Blue Rose
- The Color Meanings of Roses
- "Contender for Greatest Landscape Rose!
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Pruning Rose Bushes
Proper pruning will help keep your Rose bushes healthy, blooming, and looking their best. The best time to prune is early spring. If you prune in the fall new shoots may be killed by the first frost.Why Prune?
Pruning helps provide good shape and growth. Cut off old or diseased canes to help your rose maintain an attractive, full shape. It also helps promote growth of new shoots, and buds, this will produce more blooms. Pruning opens the form helping air circulation. This help to prevent fungal diseases.
How to Prune!
Choose an outward-facing bud to make the Rose grow outward this will allow more light and air into the center. Cutting above an inward facing bud causes the Rose to grow straggly shoots into the center. Cut about a ¼ in. above the bud on an angle. A cut to close to the bud will prevent it from growing. If you cut to far away the remaining cane length will die. Use a sharp pruning shears to make clean cut. A frayed cut will leave the Rose open to attack from frost, bugs, and fungus.
New Roses
If you are planting new Rose Bushes, prune further than normal to help the shoots grow stronger. Cut the canes down to 8-10 in.

Training Climbing Roses
Get the Best Growth and Blooms from your Climbing Roses with basic training.
Climbing roses are not true climbers. Help your Climbing Rose to an erect form. For maximum blooms you need to bend the canes of the rose to make side shoots grow. The more shoots you help the rose produce, the more blooms it will yield. Training also includes thinning old unproductive canes, enabling stronger, younger canes to produce more flowers. As the canes grow, bend them in arcs and tie them in place so they grow horizontally or downward. Canes that grow straight up produce flowers at the tips only. The more you bend the cane the more side shoots it will produce. Climbing roses must grow for 2 or 3 years before they bloom. In the spring is the best time to bend and tie the canes because they are most flexible. After the rose blooms is best time to prune. The climbers that bloom once a season should be pruned as soon as new growth appears in the spring. The repeat bloomers can be pruned after they finish blooming.Plant Climbing Rose about 12 inches from the support with roots facing away from support. As the canes grow, tie to the support. Tie loose enough to allow growth. Slowly flex the cane tip to a horizontal position when they are long enough to bend into an arc. Remove the flowers before they fade in the first season.
Spring
Begin tying the canes to support.
Mid Summer
Remove faded Flowers. Cut blooming side shoots back so that three or four leaf groups are left on branch. Continue bending and tying canes with new tip growth.
Late Summer
Prepare climbers for winter. Leave late blooming flowers on plants to help the roses adjust to winter.
Late Fall
Mound Soil around base to prepare for winter.

Black Spot on Roses
Treating Black Spots on Roses
This fungus is easy to detect and takes a short time to defeat. Black spot is one of three major diseases that effect Roses it is also the easiest to treat. It appears in the form of black patches on leaves and stems, it thrives in humid and rainy conditions. The first sign of the fungus is black dots on the rose leaves. As the fungus grows the leaves turn yellow and fall off. Treatment works even in advanced cases. Blackspot spores travel in the air or on surfaces that brush infected leaves. Spores can survive the winter in soil.Treating blackspot is an easy process. Remove dead or damaged leaves and begin regular weekly applications of fungicide. Benomyl and Daconil are two of the most effective types.
Preventing Black Spot
Spraying Roses with a liquid sulfur-lime mix can often prevent the fungus. Copper fungicides, such as Bordeaux mixture are very effective.
Other Common Diseases
Mildew
Spray regularly with fungicide which can be purchased at Garden Supply Center's
Mosaic Virus
Which is carried by insects onto the leaves. Causes the leaves to yellow and slows growth. Severe cases you must remove the plant to avoid spread!
Japanese Beetles
These insects like to chew holes in the leaves and flowers. Shake them off and purchase traps.
Worm borers
Worms that drill into fresh new shoots to feed off the soft centers of canes. Cut off and destroy infested tips about 1" below the damage!
Rose Soaring Spirits (45007)
"Honoring the Victims of 9/11!
No two blooms are just alike! We are honored to make this very special Rose available. Soaring Spirits was developed to honor the victims of 9/11, and a portion of every sale will be donated to the ""Remember Me"" garden fund. This large-flowered climber is a bold, cheery delight, with huge clusters of bright blooms. No two flowers are just alike, but all are lovely -- a very fitting tribute indeed!These blooms are single, with 5 to 8 petals apiece and a large, frilly yellow center. Every petal is uniquely marked in a combination of white, cream, yellow, and boldest pink. The buds tend to be more yellow (with streaks of pink as hints of what's to come!), so a fully blooming Soaring Spirits is a luscious combination of pastel and bright colors. The flowers are held in huge clusters all along the vine, amid foliage that opens lime-green and then deepens to bright green as the season progresses.This climber reaches 8 to 12 feet long, and flowers more heavily the second season than the first, and even MORE heavily the third and afterwards. You will get two full seasons of bloom every year -- a good showing early in the season, followed by a brief rest and then a long encore. Soaring Spirits blooms on both old and new wood, so in mild climate the second flowering continues well into autumn!You can rely on the garden toughness of this Rose as well. It was bred by master Rosarian (and many-time AARS winner!) Tom Carruth, so its pedigree is impeccable. It even boasts a subtle fragrance of fresh-cut apple, which becomes more intense in warm summer weather.Find an arbor, fence, trellis, or other support for this lovely, very hardworking climber, and begin enjoying two seasons of rich, distinctive blooms every year. Zones 4-9."

Don Juan
The Fragrant, Crimson Climbing Rose
'Don Jaun' is a Climbing Rose that can easily grow to cover a wall or trellis. Its Graceful arching canes carry a wealth of Red Flowers when in bloom. It can bare large fragrant blooms up to 5in. wide. Its long canes form captivating designs even when not in bloom. The classic Rose shape of its flowers make it excellent for cutting and displaying in a vase. 'Don Jaun' is most often used as a backdrop for many gardens. It needs to be supported for best results. Train this climbing rose over a post and rail fence to create an attractive division of property lines.
The Fairy
A Charming, soft pink, Polyantha Rose
Polyantha Rose, means many flowered. It produces many clusters of light pink blooms all summer. When in full bloom 'The Fairy' looks like a flowering shrub. A single stem can hold 25 or more buds and flowers.'The Fairy' is a great Rose for containers used on porch or patio. It is bushy, compact, and abundant flowers make it ideal for growing in a terra-cotta pot, planter box,or in the ground. Protect the blooms from fading by protecting it from direct afternoon sun. Move roses growing in pots to a protected porch or garage for winter. When pruning this rose, check the center of the cane, if it is not white and moist, then cut farther down the cane.
Rainbow's End
Miniature Rose with Elegant Blooms
Angel Face
A Fragrant Floribunda Rose
Ruffled Petals and a heavenly scent make this beauty a unique Rose. The flowers are a Lavender-blue with streaks of burgundy or deep pink. They bloom up to 4" across and have a spreading form which shows their yellow centers. They grow in fragrant clusters and have dark green leathery leaves. As you remove old blooms it keeps rewarding you with repeat blooms. For most blooms frequently water overnight and fertilize at least 3 times a year. It Flowers all summer, is very fragrant, and is good for cutting. Plant in full sun with fertile, well drained soil. Scotch Rose
Abundant, Fragrant Flowers
Scotch Roses are a wild species, bearing single or double flowers in white, yellow, or pink. In the fall, these roses offer lovely, violet-black hips.These Roses are perfect for forming a low hedge or for bordering a bed of colorful flowers. Planted on its own it will provide an attractive view, year after year if pruned to maintain shape, so it does not look cluttered or lopsided. As a thick , low hedge can serve as a thorny fence to keep out animals. A Scotch 'Maigold can be trained to grow on a trellis or light post. As a wild species it is very pest and disease resistant. If it does not have good air circulation it can suffer from powdery mildew. Flowers late spring to mid summer. It is very Fragrant and attracts wildlife. Plant in full sun with acidic well drained soil.

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"Rose Rockin' Robin PP#10,070" (45108)
"A Repeat-Blooming, Fragrant Shrublet! These white blooms are gaily striped in pink and red, for a festive look in garden or vase. Plant Patent #10,070. Cultivar: 'WEKboroco'. This vigorous, repeat-blooming Shrublet Rose is just the ticket for containers, small spaces, accent plantings, and the front of the sunny border or foundation! Rockin' Robin sports big, fully double blooms 2 1/4 inches across, sweetly apple-scented and merrily striped in pink and bloom over a white background. For nonstop flowers over a long season on a very compact habit, it can't be beat! Shrublet Roses have a larger habit that Miniatures and the larger blooms of Modern Shrub Roses. This gives them the advantage of compact size suitable for landscape or container, large flowers, and a very heavy repeat bloom. Rockin' Robin is one of the very finest! Zones 4-8."
Blue Rose
Blue roses were traditionally created by dyeing white roses. Because roses lack a gene to produce delphinidin, the primary plant pigment that produces true blue flowers. Delphinidin gives blue hues to flowers like violas and delphiniums. It also gives the blue-red color of the grape that produces Cabernet Sauvignon, and can be found in cranberries and Concord grapes. "Blue roses" have been bred by conventional hybridization methods, but the results, such as "Blue Moon" are more accurately described as lilac in color. However, after thirteen years of joint research by an Australian company Florigene, and Japanese company Suntory, a blue rose was created in 2004 using genetic engineering. Blue roses traditionally signify mystery or attaining the impossible. They are believed to be able to grant the owner youth or grant wishes. This symbolism derives from the rose's meaning in the language of flowers common in Victorian times. The Color Meanings of Roses
White roses: have traditionally meant innocence, secrecy or quiet, sacredness, youth. They can also be used to say, "I miss you." They are often carried by brides to connote a happy and pure love. White rosebuds are thought to symbolize young girlhood.
Pink roses: have traditionally been given to communicate thanks, happiness, admiration, honesty, and grace. Pale pink roses are sometimes given to express sympathy. The pale type of roses can also signify sweetness. Dark pink roses are traditionally given as thanks.
Pale purple roses: are sometimes called lavender roses and sometimes referred to as lilac roses. In either case, they can symbolize love at first sight or enchantment.
Yellow roses have long stood for friendship, joy, new starts, freedom, welcomes, remembrance, jealousy, and delight. Yellow roses are traditionally sent to new mothers, recent graduates, and newlyweds as a type of congratulations. Yellow roses with red edges have often stood for new love or deep friendship.
Peachy roses: traditionally communicate appreciation, gratitude, agreements, and sincerity. The paler type of roses mean modesty while the darker variety are sometimes used to express desire.
Orange roses: signify desire and enthusiasm.
Black roses: do not exist, but florists create black roses through dyes. These express death and goodbyes.

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