Caring for roses is pretty easy if you just know what to do.
All throughout the year you must know how to take care of them during each season, and then to be prepared for the succeeding season, and so on.
Below are guides you can follow to achieve success in caring for roses.
Spring Caring for roses in the early spring requires you to prune your roses once you've noticed any signs of development or if there's any new growth.
This normally happens in a little red bud swelling form.
If you notice any damaged or dead branches, cut them out.
Do not cut thick and healthy stems.
You should leave at least 5 of them.
Now cut the bush of the rose back by half.
The cuts should be right at the top of the buds that are facing outward.
So look if there is a red bud that is not among the bush.
This leads the red bud to grow up and leave the rose bush for it to grow better and to have space for a more beautiful shape because of better circulation of air.
You should also know how to fertilize them correctly and regularly during the season when they are growing.
Roses need lots of nutrients for them to be able to grow better and become beautiful.
You may buy a granular rose food and put it inside the soil.
Doing this means feeding the plant the whole season.
If you don't want to do it, you may also fertilize the rose using a liquid fertilizer.
Fertilize them every 3 weeks in the growing season.
And of course never fail to water them.
Roses need to be watered in a regular basis and demand to have a regular water source.
Summer In summer, mulching is advised.
When you do this, diseases are prevented and you do not have to water and weed as frequent as before.
Place 2 inches of mulch (organic).
These are pine needles, wood chips, grass clippings or some other materials that are biodegradable.
You may also trim roses that are spent away from the shrub.
This will help it to produce more.
This method is called deadhead.
If insect infestation happened on your roses, you may try spraying.
You should first at least try to trim off the portion infected then give it a blast from pressured hose.
If you are going to spray, it is better to seek professional help.
In caring for roses you should first know what the problem is.
Finally, cut the infected part and bring it to any garden center.
There, they will know and give you the right pesticide.
Fall You should immediately stop the fertilization of your roses in the early days of autumn.
Stop it 3 weeks to 1 month before the initial frost date.
You stop fertilizing early because if you fertilize too long, this'll encourage the roses to grow which will soon be nipped by cold weather.
You should protect your roses as much as you need to, entering the late autumn, after the initial hard freeze of your location.
Winter Caring for roses in winter varies on how cold it could get in one place.
Of course if you are located where temperatures do not fall lower than 20 degrees F, you don't need extra winter protection.
But in much colder places, you should at least mound several centimeters or inches of soil above the rose's base.
In regions where temperature becomes 10 degrees below 0, you should mound at least a foot in a month going through the last frost date of your location.
By just following the instructions above, caring for roses won't be as hard as most people think.
You may now have healthy and beautiful roses in different seasons.