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Roses for the Rest of Us

Roses for the Rest of Us. Chip Miller Saline County Extension Horticulture Agent. Roses for the Rest of Us. Popular Belief: Roses are difficult to grow. Fact: Most roses do quite well on their own. People are often deadly to roses.

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Roses for the Rest of Us

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  1. Roses for the Rest of Us Chip Miller Saline County Extension Horticulture Agent

  2. Roses for the Rest of Us • Popular Belief: Roses are difficult to grow. • Fact: Most roses do quite well on their own. People are often deadly to roses. • Action: Find out what they like, and how they like it, and give it to them just that way. Fats Waller

  3. Roses for the Rest of Us • Popular Belief: Hybrid Teas are the best roses. • Fact. They are the most familiar. Most are tall, gangly shrubs, deficient in form, but valued for their large flowers. • Action: If you must plant hybrid teas, plant them at back of border, but use better classes of roses as landscape shrubs, “vines”, and groundcovers.

  4. Roses for the Rest of Us • Popular Belief: Roses are disease prone. • Fact: It is true that many roses are sickly, but many others are tough. • Action: Plant only disease resistant varieties.

  5. Roses for the Rest of Us • Popular Belief: My neighbor has 20 hybrid tea roses so she knows everything about roses. • Fact: She has 20 roses. That doesn’t necessarily make her a good information resource. • Action: Get information from well-informed sources. Be skeptical of the value of information.

  6. Roses for the Rest of Us • Popular Belief: Newer is better • Fact: Generally true for computers but not for roses. Over the short term, novelty sells roses better than quality. • Action: Educate yourself.

  7. Roses for the Rest of Us • Popular Belief: Roses should be planted together, separate from other plants. • Fact: Monoculture has its own challenges. • Action: Use roses as you would any other quality ornamental plant.

  8. Roses for the Rest of Us • Classification is confusing. • Recommendation: Give up. • If you want to devote a lot of time to study, you can develop an appreciation of the differences among the different classes, but…

  9. Old Garden Roses Alba Ayrshire Bourbon… Boursault Centifolia Damask Hybrid Bracteata Hybrid China… Hybrid Eglanteria Hybrid Foetida Hybrid Gallica Hybrid Multiflora Hybrid Perpetual Hybrid Sempervirens Hybrid Setigera Hybrid Spinosissima Miscellaneous OGR’s Moss… Noisette Portland Tea… Modern Roses Floribunda… Grandiflora… Hybrid Kordesii Hybrid Moyesii Hybrid Musk Hybrid Rugosa Hybrid Wichuraiana Hybrid Tea… Large-Flowered Climber Miniature… Mini-Flora Polyantha Shrub Classification of Roses

  10. Information on Rose Classes http://froebuck.home.texas.net/toppage5.htm http://www.vintagegardens.com/cgi-bin/class.pl?id=86b4cc12c7ih http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/roses/kinds.html

  11. Golden Wings

  12. Jude the Obscure

  13. Hansa

  14. Konigin von Danemark

  15. Rosa alba var. semiplena

  16. Rosa foetida persiana

  17. Sharifa Asma

  18. Ballerina

  19. Blaze

  20. Danae

  21. Dream Weaver

  22. Fantin-Latour

  23. Ferdinand Pichard

  24. Leverkusen

  25. Nearly Wild

  26. Penelope

  27. Henry KelseyFantin-LatourReine des Violettes

  28. Zephirine Drouhin

  29. Royal Bonica

  30. Carefree Beauty

  31. Carefree Wonder Carefree Wonder

  32. Carefree Delight

  33. Roses only garden

  34. IMPORTANT • Pick the right rose • Pick the right site • Amend the soil • Plant properly • Water only when needed • If it gets a disease, won’t bloom, or disappoints in any other manner…kill it

  35. Roses for the Rest of Us Chip Miller Saline County Extension Horticulture Agent

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