Michigan Gardening: if you could only have one plant or flower!, 0 by Cottage_Rose

Cottage_Rose wrote:
cyberiris
Pruning might not be your problem.
It could be any number of things re. poor results with your roses.
If you are growing Hybrid Tea roses they tend to be fussy.
If you buy cheap boxed/bagged/wax roses at local box stores you are getting very poor quality roses with chopped off root sysytems.
Roses are heavy feeders and like lots of water but do not like to be in standing water. They need to be fertilized monthly June - August.
If you go to my website I have some info on growing hardy roses plus there is alot of info online re. growing roses.
And of course check out the rose forum here.
Hope this helps. ;o)

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