Spring Ahead

[Raider19]

Hi Everyone - Spring is coming fast and I would like to know what everyone is doing to prepare their roses for the spring/summer season. What types of fertilizer, mulch or compost are you using?

 

[john5460]

I live in the uk stated to prune my roses I use blood, fish, bone meal, or chicken pellets then I work in the fertilizer put a layer of compost around the plant about three inches thick this keeps in the moisture in the soil.

 

[Fernsdaddy]

Its still to early to do much with my roses, I'll clean up around them and give them some Epson salt, by mid April I can start to prune the dead off and give them some bunny . and hope we don't get a late snow storm.

 

[Becky]

I'm hoping to prune my roses soon - we've had a cold snap recently with temperatures dipping below 0C at night, but it's meant to be warming up now (fingers crossed!). I'm going to give it a week, and if we don't get any more frosts I'll take a look at them.

 

[wiseowl]

Good afternoon I shall be pruning my Roses this weekend

 

[marlingardener]

Our roses are pretty much on their own after their first year. I will be trimming the long arching canes and thinning the inner bushes, perhaps giving them a shovelful of composted manure, and then stand back and admire their blooms!
Our roses are own-root and pretty tough, so I don't have to do much to them except cut bouquets.

 

[Vinaya]

This spring I am planning to try planting rose on pots and vase. I have 8 varieties of roses in my gardening. I am planning to plant few, especially those that are small, in post and vase. I have never planted rose on a vase and pots, and this will be an experiment.

 

[Fernsdaddy]

This spring I am planning to try planting rose on pots and vase. I have 8 varieties of roses in my gardening. I am planning to plant few, especially those that are small, in post and vase. I have never planted rose on a vase and pots, and this will be an experiment.

I've had god luck with roses in large pots, they stay out all winter and come back with a bang. these two white one have been in the same pots for all most 12 years and loving it. the picture is from last spring.