Most people think that even if a rose assumes different length, size, shape and color, it is still a rose.
Literally speaking, this holds true but roses have various kinds with unique characteristics that makes them advantageous and disadvantageous to plant.
You need to know the different kinds of roses should you want to start with your rose gardening endeavor.
1 - Climbing roses Appreciation with the way this type of rose grows is very necessary if you plan to choose this for your garden.
They are similar to sprawling roses and they have almost the same characteristics in the sense that they both grow canes and blooms abundantly during the rose season and their thorns are wickedly the same.
It is essential to cut them into manageable sizes when they have assumed a well established growth and this will require tree saw instead of the traditional pruning shear.
Climbers are very resilient and are quite immune to plant diseases.
There are three supporting canes that you need to preserve while you cut all the rest so that the roses can develop vigorous vines and support their growth.
Tie these three canes in order for the plant to follow the direction that you want them to.
2 - Tea rose The tea rose is a perfect rose to choose when you want to expect great lush and scented blooms, which grows frequently during the year.
The flowers are somewhat large but can be controlled through cutting the side buds so that the buds located on the center can receive the nutrients and organic feeds you give them.
3 - Floribundas Floribundas grow into groups of flowers.
The middlemost flower grows and matures faster than the rest of the flowers in the group.
Most rose gardeners remove the center flower so that the other flowers of the group can grow and open at the same time.
4 - Once flowering roses These are the type of roses that produces flowers only once of a given year.
However, they are still widely appreciated because they produce a lush of flowers that are both magnificent and elegant.
5 - Shrub roses Perhaps the most resilient type of all roses is the shrub roses even though they are low growing and develop quite wicked thorns.
Even though they are quite common, shrub roses are still popular for the color that they can give.
6 - Miniature roses Accentuation of garden borders is the most common function of miniature roses.
Some varieties are very delicate and can be infested very easily while there are others that are quite resilient when they grow.
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