Rose Gardening

Ideas for Gardening with Roses

Rose gardening, some ideas and rose tips on gardening with roses. Learn some rose tips for creating a beautiful rose garden. Knowing how to combine roses with shrubs and other flowers is the key to a picture perfect garden!

Viewing pictures of roses, and other gardens,give you a feel for what you want in your garden. Let me show you how to create a beautiful rose garden. There are so... many roses to choose from, it can sometimes become overwhelming, and although your particular planting zone limits what you can plant, there is always suitable replacements that will mimic the ones you like.

Combining colors that blend well will give a more pleasing effect.

More Tips on Designing a Rose Garden

Is "Formal" your idea of the perfect garden? Or maybe a "Cottage Garden" is more your style. How about a "Themed garden"?

Once you find your style, you can start to plan your garden.

Your style of garden will guide you in choosing

Garden Ornaments. As well as materials for edging and Walkways

White is used for filler flowers, such as Babys Breath, and white allyssum for edging. The Pergola is painted white, as is the garden bench.

Beds can be edged with Catmint, which has light airy looking blooms in a light pastel purple color. The plant itself is light green in color.

When planning a rose garden, it is best to separate the garden into different (rooms) to keep things in scale, and more organized.

Give some thought to what kind of material you want to use for your "paths" and walking area. As you can see in this photo, I used bluestone which is lovely, and keeps things looking neat. ( I put a layer of heavy plastic under the stone to keep the weeds out)

The grass paths are very pretty, but it's a constant job of mowing! I hope to start changing those grass paths into stone that requires NO maintence, hopefully this year. My goal is to make my garden more enjoyable and less WORK.

Edging is important also. Stones, boards, or purchased garden edging can all be used. If nothing else, you can simply edge the bed with an edging shovel, but you will have to keep up with it every year, or the grass will start to grow back into the beds.

Take a look at this beautiful garden, and take note of the garden as a whole. See how the greenery (shrubs) ties it all together? Try to imagine this garden without it?

When planning your garden, plan for shrubs and greenery. Think of them as the "bones" of the garden, then fill in with colorful roses of different heights and sizes, then fill in further with vines, then perennial, and annual flowers.

When planting shrubs, keep in mind their mature size, so they have plenty of room to grow.
The use of color is very important when designing your garden. If you plan so that colors blend or harmonize well, and also bloom at the same time, you will be much happier with your finished garden. You will always have color in your garden.

Don't be afraid to mix in some of the perennial grasses, either in the border, or in specific spots throughout the rose garden. There are many varieties available, from small clumped ones, to very tall ones. They give the garden an almost Tropical effect,adding a new texture.

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