Gardeners are faced with a bewildering array of magnificent roses these days. You can use many different varieties in your garden to enhance your garden landscape. Here are few guidelines you can follow when you go out to choose the roses you want to plant in your garden:
�Color: Some people love pink, others don’t. Your color preference is very personal and since you have to live with them you need to consider carefully which roses to grow based on their colors.
�Size: Roses vary from the miniature variety to rose standards or trees to shrubs and of course the climbers. Check with your nursery how large the particular variety you like grows. You need to ensure that you have the right space in your garden to ensure the rose can be shown to its full potential. The rose also needs space to grow.
�Temperature: do you live in a colder area? Then you should pick a hardy variety that can handle the cold winters.
Types of Roses
Roses come in a myriad different shapes and sizes. Whatever your desire for landscaping your garden, you can find a rose for almost every different feature that you’d want. Broadly speaking, there are three main types of roses: Species, Old Garden Roses and Modern Roses.
Within these broad categorizations there are up to thirty-five different types.
Species roses are sometimes known as �wild roses� because they are the original wild ancestor of the rose varieties we see today. Many of the species roses are climbers.
If you love roses because of their beautiful fragrances, then the Old Garden Roses are the plants for you. Generally, these are older varieties of roses and as such are hardier and more resistant to disease. Blooming for several months at a time, these types are also known as heirloom roses.
Modern roses are the most common roses available. Here’s a brief breakdown of the varieties you might find.
Shrub and Landscape Roses: Generally, these roses are hardier and more disease resistant than other types, they also flower abundantly and are thus excellent for beginner gardeners or those who can’t afford too much time to spend on roses. They vary in shape and size from ground cover type roses, to hedge roses and then low growing shrub types. You also get taller shrub varieties that can grow quite large.
Climbing Roses: These rose varieties are unlike vines in that they don’t have tendrils or suckers which enable them to cling onto supports. However, if you attach them onto trellises or thread through supports then they will grow upwards and cover any wall of your home or garden. They also make great landscape features are archways over trellises. There are a number of different types of climbing roses, some are smaller and others can grow very vigorously and become quite huge.
Miniature Roses: The ideal rose to grow indoors, they do extremely well in a sunny spot in your house. Besides sun, give your miniature roses a weekly watering and they will reward you for a long time. They also form wonderful accents to highlight outdoor features in your garden.
