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Fall Rose Plant Care

Updated : June 17, 2024

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Proper care of rose plants in the fall will help ensure that your plants come back strong and healthy next spring. Roses love the warm days and cool nights in the fall and often put out their best blooms for fall enjoyment. Fall weather encourages the plants to form more perfect blossoms, but the weather… Click here to read more…

How to Propagate Roses From Seed

Updated : June 17, 2024

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Rose propagation can be an interesting hobby for those who enjoy growing these beautiful flowers. To produce plants that are exact duplicates of the parent plant one would propagate roses with cuttings. But rose propagation from seeds can be a fun experiment, even though this propagation method does not produce duplicates of the parent plant…. Click here to read more…

Some Helpful Tips About Rose Care

Updated : June 17, 2024

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Look at this Rainbow’s End rose bush! This plant has so many different color blooms and it is just an incredible addition to your landscape. When pruning roses you want to keep them somewhat compact, and remove the dead flowers because if you don’t remove the dead flowers then the plant concentrates its energy on… Click here to read more…

How to Grow Roses-Part 3

Updated : June 17, 2024

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How to Grow Roses: Part 3 – Pruning and Winterizing In this last part of the Growing Roses Series, we will be discussing good techniques for keeping your new rose in the best of health. Tools needed: Pruners, loppers and/or saw Sharpener for tools to make sure cuts are clean to promote quick healing Disinfectant… Click here to read more…

Propagating Roses from Cuttings

Updated : June 17, 2024

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Propagating Roses from Cuttings www.freeplants.com Copyright © 2011 McGroarty Enterprises Inc. The propagation of Roses.  Boy this must be hard to do.  Roses are a mystery to many gardeners.   Something so beautiful must be really difficult to grow from cuttings, at least so think some gardeners.  This is not the case at all.  Roses… Click here to read more…

How to Grow Roses-Part 2

Updated : June 17, 2024

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This is the second installation of our 3 part series on How to Grow Roses. In Part 2 of the Growing Roses series, the regular care that is required of a newly planted rose will be discussed. Tools needed: Rake and/or claw (the short, 3 pronged garden hand tool) Thick leather gloves with long cuffs… Click here to read more…

How to Grow Roses

Updated : June 17, 2024

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This will be part one of a three part series on how to grow roses.  We will cover all bases from planting, to pruning, to wintering. Sometimes people are fearful about growing roses because of the rumor that they are difficult to care for and take a tremendous amount of time and chemicals to produce… Click here to read more…

How to Grow Roses from Cuttings.

Updated : October 8, 2024

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Growing roses from cuttings.

It is easier than you think to propagate and grow roses from cuttings.   As with all plant propagation it’s all about timing and technique and timing is usually more important than technique. (Note:  Did you notice that there are two different kinds of bees in that rose bloom?  Just thought I’d point that out.)… Click here to read more…

How to Prune Roses for Winter

Updated : November 24, 2014

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Pruning roses for the winter season is important.  Roses have long been a favorite of many gardeners, but the frigid months of north can be detrimental to any plant and roses are no different. As the weather begins to change, so do the needs of the roses we enjoyed over the growing season. Having a strong… Click here to read more…

How to Grow Roses from Cuttings

Updated : March 8, 2025

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You are going to love this article on how to grow roses from cuttings.  This is a really simple process that works and takes all the mystery out of rose propagation.  A customer of mine actually made this video for you and I.  Thank you Jeff! Rose Bush Propagation This is a process that can… Click here to read more…

Enhance Your Landscape With Roses

Updated : November 20, 2014

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These are the Miniature Roses in our landscape.  I hope you enjoy the short video.

Pruning Rose Bushes

Updated : July 23, 2019

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Over Wintering Rooted Cuttings.

Posted On January 8, 2023 By Mike

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A Profound Thank You from Mike.

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