What should I do to have nice roses?
Question:I just bought a house and it has 6 rose bushes on it. I have never worked with roses let a lone in a garden. I am clueless. I am not even sure they are roses. It has thorns but the flower comes in batches of 3. The flower looks like a rose so I am just assuming.
I also see a vine growing around one of the bushes which I am trying to cut of it. Is that okay? All the bushes are out of direct sunlight and seam to be doing well. At the tipes of some of the bushes the stems look dead. Should I trim the stems that have no leaves? Should I cut of the flowers after a few days? How often should I water them? Again any info is good info. I am a putz when it comes to gardening.
Answers:
Cutting out the vine sounds like a good thing. Trimming them up sounds good too, but my best advice is to get on line and look for a gardening sight and read up on pruning roses. Don't fret they are easier than people think to deal with.
Plus it would help if I had an idea where you are located.
i put a bannana peel at the base of my roses ,and they bloom like crazy.
Just take a small cutting of each to your local nursery and explain the situation and they can help you to know what to do.
Or just hire a lawn guy.
Hire me. =) Well, as a future horticulturist because I'll be doing landscape design and floriculturing, I would recommend you cut off the dead stem as new branch will grow out of it. Also, rose bushes or mushes will grow. Vines that grows around the rose bush usually is okay to cut, but the vine will not grow back unless you move the vines away from it without harming it or cutting it.
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