Rose Garden Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Rose Garden With Latticed Arches
By Jeremy Goldstar
If you decide to create a rose garden, then there are many directions
you can take in your design. You can go very formal, with clipped
and shaped hedges and lots of symmetry and straight lines. Or
you can go in the opposite direction, with less rigid lines but
lots of lush growth.
The wonder of roses is that you don’t just have a fantastic range
of colors to choose from, but have bushes that grow to different
heights, have different foliage, and have differently shaped flowers
as well. There are a thousand possibilities for your garden design.
Mixing Varieties Of Roses
One thing to consider early in planning your rose garden is that
when you have a monoculture, which is a garden created from only
one species of plant, every single one of them could fall prey
to the same disease or pest.
You can counteract that danger to some degree by finding hardier
rose varieties and mixing them with the more delicate varieties,
like hybrid teas. Then you’ll need to tailor your rose care toward
prevention, and be ready to deal quickly with cankers or pests
as they appear. Be prepared as well for the look of the garden
to become very bare during the winter, as you wrap and prune back
your plants.
Graveled Walkways Between Flower Beds
You might, however, plant your rose garden with hedged borders
of small evergreens, so you will still have some green in the
winter. This works well with more formal gardens, where flower
beds or boxes are arranged in symmetric, carefully defined patterns.
A formal garden uses straight lines, often with graveled walkways
between beds, sometimes with a rose garden pool set in the center.
On the other hand, you may prefer a less formal arrangement with
the roses collected together into one area.
In this case, you would arrange them both by color and height,
perhaps with rose ground covers along the edges of the bed to
conceal the bare ground.
A Latticed Arch Along The Garden Path
In addition to all the types of roses you can choose from, there
are many possible accessories for your rose garden as well. People
often place a latticed arch along a path, so the roses can weave
into and climb over it, and trellises are frequent elements in
other places throughout these gardens.
You might also set benches along pathways or in front of corner
beds, and punctuate the paths with miniature roses in matching
pots. With so many rose varieties and design patterns available,
you can create a beautiful garden in whatever space you have.
About the Author:
Jeremy Goldstar has written a number of articles on gardening
and landscaping including Self
Watering Planters.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
Little Known Rose Gardening Facts....
Having a rose garden can do wonders for your health and your
home. How can rose gardening help your health? Well, unless you
are allergic to being outside or to flowers, the simple act of
tending your garden can help relieve a lot of stress from your
life.
Your home will definitely benefit from a beautiful flower garden
to enhance its visual appeal. Even the smallest of yards still
have enough room for a rose plant or two. You will be amazed at
how beautiful they are when they are mature and blooming.
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