The first 3-4 weeks after planting your roses, you should water them often. Usually this is when top 2 inches of soil is dry. Roses need a lot of hydration and food to remain healthy. Four weeks after planting, you should start soaking bed every 2 weeks or so. You should do this in morning for best results.

Begin fertilization approximately 3 months after planting. Use 3-6 inches of mulch to control moisture, temperature, and to stops weeds from coming up. Mulch also helps to lock in vital nutrients your roses need in order to remain healthy. Planting in Spring is best.

You want to plant your roses in an area that is well circulated with air. Your roses will not grow in an enclosed or tight area. Dig a hole that is two times bigger than amount of space that your roses take up. It makes it easier to plant them and creates a spaced area for them to grow with freedom. Poor circulation for your roses can cause fungal diseases. Using a larger hole also makes it easier for you to pull them up later and pot them if you’d like.

You want to get rid of winter protection that you set up like cones, burlap, and mounded soil. You want to get rid of dead wood first. (That would be black wood that is black inside as well as out). Next, you wan to get rid of thinner wood, which is stems that are thinner than a pencil.

Cut all of branches that cross or overlap one another because these are often diseased or will become so. Keep remaining five healthy branches. These are often dark green. You will want to make your roses fluted or vases shaped, with an open center, and keep them from touching or overlapping each other.

Cut your healthy canes to be about one to four feet long, or whatever size that you prefer. Cut you roses properly so that they stay healthy. Cut so that bud is facing outside of bush and at a 45 degree angle that slopes inward so that you can keep promoting outward growth.

You should use bypass pruners that work like scissors and not anvil types because anvils crush stems and make roses more available to diseases.