Roses need plenty of sun , water and nourishment in the form of rose food or fertilizer . With hundreds of varieties of roses in so many color choices, there's a perfect rose for every space in your garden. Add a trellis, soften a fence, highlight a flower bed, define with a hedge border. The choices are limitless. Spring is the time to plant, so, grab your rose catalogues and make your choices now, choosing the shapes and sizes, leaf texture and color, and blooms for this growing season.
Roses are a favorite flower the world over.
I love more varieties of roses than I can fit into my small landscape. I planted a lovely Hybrid Musk rose called Ballerina in my front yard. Some faded blooms of this rose can be seen in the banner for Gardens above. Along the fence that lines my driveway I have planted an old fashioned climbing rose called Kathleen. The roses that keep on living and blooming without any special care are the roses that my grandmother gave me from her yard when I first moved into my home in 1966.