The Right Rose for your Garden

There are literally hundreds of types of roses that you can grow in your garden. With such a selection to choose from, it can be extremely difficult to choose the rose that’s right for you.

To make this task a bit easier, I’ve added some crucial factors that you should consider, and some of the different types of roses to aid in your search.

Planting Roses

The art of planting roses doesn’t have to be a complicated thing to do. When you have the right knowledge there is no limit to how beautiful a garden or rosebush that you can create.

In this guide, you will not only have all of the right skills at your fingertips, but you will get 101 tips that you can use to grow your very own bed of roses. With this extensive manual at hand, you will never have to buy another bouquet again. Now you will have all of the beauty and delicious fragrance that roses can give you with you all the time.

Here are some of the best ideas and tips for planting your roses.

1. Check with your local gardening center or florist for the best type of roses to grow in you climate. If you are a novice, you should look for disease resistant types of roses because they require a lot less maintenance.
101 Rose Growing Tips and Secrets

Hybrid Tea Roses
Ken Austin

Hybrid tea roses and the original tea rose are the world's favourite roses and are available in many gorgeous colors.

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   Hybrid tea roses are among the most beautiful flowers in the world. They are the florist's rose.
   
   
   
   
   
2. The blossoms are fantastic and each flower can have as many as 60 or more petals. You can not find a more beautiful cut flower.
   
   
   
   
   
3. The fragrance also makes the hybrid tea rose an excellent choice to give as a bouquet or to grow in your garden.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Hybrid tea roses are different from other roses because they produce their flowers usually one bloom to a long stem rather than in clusters. Most hybrid tea roses produce flowers during the entire growing season and the plants grow 3 to 6 feet tall.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Caring for hybrid tea roses is no more difficult than other roses although you do need to give them special care in colder climates. They are no more or no less pest or disease resistant than other kinds of roses.
   
   
   
   
   
6. 'La France' was the first hybrid tea rose grown in 1867 by a French nurseryman, Jean-Baptiste Guillot. He cross-bred two old garden roses and developed an entirely new kind of rose.
   
   
   
   
   
7. Hybrid tea roses should be planted 18 to 36 inches apart or they can be planted with other flowers in large pots.
   
   
   
   
   
8. There are hundreds of choices when looking for hybrid tea roses. Choices can be made by color, names or fragrance. There are hybrid tea roses named after famous people including presidents and their wives.
   
   
   
   
   
9. The very first tea rose was a cross between a China rose and Rosa gigantea. These plants are more bushy than the hybrid tea rose but the well-shaped flower buds remind us of today's modern hybrid tea roses. Tea roses come in shades of white, pink and yellow.

Start thinking about adding a tea rose or hybrid tea rose to your garden this year.

About the Author

Ken Austin
http://www.1stinroses.com
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