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Feeding Your Plants
Nitrogen is an essential element of your gardens complex
chemical activities. A steady stream of slow release nitrogen is
always available if you have enough decomposted organic material
in your landscape.
I like to suppliment our plants...
How to Attract Butterfly Activity...
The flittering of the butterfly through your garden is no accident if you planned your garden carefully. The adult butterfly flitters from flower to flower - sipping nectar from many flowers in your gardens, while other adult butterflies search for...
Landscaping: 3 Ways to Use Concrete in your Yard
The mental images that the word concrete invokes may not be of
something you'd want in your yard but in fact, the landscaping
industry has begun to incorporate concrete materials in their
designs the past few years with surprising results....
Saving Energy By planting Nursery Stock and windbreaks
In the past week there has been an increasing interest in
landscape design for energy conservation. Rising fuel costs can
be offset by landscaping. The primary goal is to control wind
and sun. In Pa. the first line of defence for energy savings...
The Beautiful Rose of Sharon
Perhaps you were browsing the pages of a catalog and found a beautiful picture of the Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus Sriacus)? Or maybe you were lucky enough to see a Rose of Sharon in person at a local garden center? Are you wondering whether these will...
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Choosing Roses For Your Landscape
Roses have long been a favorite among all types of gardeners,
and roses continue to enjoy great popularity today. In addition
to their beauty as cut flowers and in bouquets, roses are among
the most useful and attractive flowers to grace the landscape of
any home.
As a matter of fact, the exterior of any home can be made more
graceful and more inviting through the use of wonderful
landscape roses. Choosing the right ones, and ensuring that they
compliment the overall style of the home, is very important to
the overall success of the landscape.
Fortunately, the number of ornamental landscape roses make
finding them an easy task. The difficulty consists of choosing
the right ones from this variety. There are a number of classes
of roses whose characteristics make them great for use as
landscape ornamentals. For instance, the gardener who wants to
grow roses up and over an archway or a trellis may want to use
tall growing tea roses. Tea roses are renowned for their nodding
blooms, therefore all who pass under the arch would be treated
to the beautiful sight of roses in full bloom.
To accent a wall or other permanent structure, a true climbing
rose is often the best choice. True climbing roses can be
trained to many different effects, including climbing up the
length of the structure, or accenting the tops and sides of a
wall or building.
The Polyantha or modern day Floribunda rose is a great choice
for gardeners looking for a vibrant splash of color for the
background. These popular varieties of roses have large sprays
of blooms, and they are popular choices for providing color in
the landscape.
If roses are to be planted in front of other plants in the
landscape, miniature or low growing China roses are a perfect
choice. Roses can even be used as hedges, with modern Shrub
roses and
Rugosa roses being excellent choices.
Of course, as with any aspect of gardening, color is an
important consideration. After all, every gardener's goal is a
garden full of colorful, vibrant and healthy plants.
Fortunately, roses come in so many shapes, sizes, textures and
colors that there truly is a rose for every gardener.
The goal of choosing the best color roses for the landscape
should be to compliment the color of the surrounding landscape.
For instance, a spray of plain white tea roses can be striking
against a dark red brick home, or an arrangement of pink roses
can be the perfect compliment to a stone or marble entranceway.
With so many colors of roses to choose from, it should be easy
to find colors that compliment and enhance any decorating scheme.
One popular trend in the world of landscaping is to use a
variety of different plants and flowers in the landscape.
Whereas single species landscaping was in vogue a few years ago,
most of today's gardeners like to use a mix of different colors,
species and styles of plants. Doing so not only makes for a
vibrant garden, but it is thought to enhance the health of the
soil as well.
Fortunately, roses lend themselves well to this mixture, and
roses can be a beautiful part of an overall landscape of plants
and flowers. In addition, there are roses suitable for a variety
of climates. Choosing the best rose varieties for your specific
climate should mean fewer pesticides, few disease issues and an
overall healthier garden.
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growing roses.
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