In this guide, you will not only have all of 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 beauty and delicious fragrance that roses can give you with you all time.

Planting Guide for Roses

Check with your local gardening center or florist for 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.

When planting roses, you want to pick a spot that is well lit in morning. You also want an area that is sunlit for at least 6 hours a day. Roses need a great deal of light if they are to grow properly.

Pick an area that has plenty of well drained soil. Great soil has a PH level where amount of acid in soil is at about 5.5-7.0. You can get a testing kit for your soil at any garden center.

Pruning your roses is basically act of getting rid of dead and damaged pieces, and teaching new growth to grow in correct outward facing direction. That just means that you are training them to grow facing outside of shrub or bush. This gives your roses correct amount of circulating air to thrive in.

Here is a list of proper techniques to guide through pruning process.

Soak your pruning shears in equal parts of water and bleach. This will help to protect your roses from diseases and insects. Pruning in early spring, just after snow melts is best. However you want to do it before any new growth appears. The best time would be when buds are swelled, or red.