Once you are satisfied with everything INSIDE your house, it is time to take a look at the outside. Guests and visitors see the outside of your home first, so it is obvious that you should spend as much time and energy on your garden as you do on the rest of your home. Here are some tips for a rose garden that will make your guests want to come back every day.
The number one rule for maintaining a rose garden is watering them often. Roses need lots of water. You can use a sprinkler system for watering roses, but sometimes you just need to stand with them and use a hose pipe to ensure that they get a good soaking.
Roses need food. You will need a good rose fertiliser. You need to give the roses fertiliser once every 3-4 weeks, and only a very light sprinkle, ensuring that it doesn’t touch the roses. You need to water them thoroughly afterwards.
Another step not to forget when maintaining your rose garden, is spraying your roses. To protect your roses from powdery mildew, black spots and rust, you need to spray your roses with something that you can get from your nursery for this purpose. There are many products on the market so let the professionals help you choose the best one. You need to spray them every week in the beginning and later make it 2-3 week intervals.
Pruning your roses is very important. You need to know how to do it and when to do it. The more you prune, the more flowers you will get. Roses should be pruned once they have bloomed and the lower down you cut them, the bushier the rose-bush will become and you will also have longer stems so that roses can be used to put in a vase inside your home.