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Transcript: Landscape Roses
Late winter or early spring is an excellent time to plant roses in your landscape.Now you may like the long cut flower hybrid tea-type roses. However, they're a bit gangly as a bush and do require a little pampering with sprays to keep them happy. I think every landscape needs a landscape shrub-type rose.
Roses like this Lamarque are examples of that. They're beautiful as they load down with bloom, but they also have very attractive green foliage. So even when the plant is not in bloom, it's an attractive addition to the landscape.
There are many antique roses that fit into this group. One of my favorites is old blush. Old blush has been around since the 1800s. It's a very attractive rose. It blooms well in spring and fall with a little repeating in the summer, very disease resistant. But not all good landscape roses are antiques.
This is Belinda's dream, a fairly new rose but very disease resistant. It gets a little black spot but bounces right back. The shrub itself is very attractive with green foliage all through the season. Look for Belinda's dream, perhaps the closet you can get to the perfect landscape rose for our Texas climate and soils.
If you would like more information on growing good tough roses here in our southern climate, check out the Earthkind web site. It has a listing of roses that are tough, resilient, can take our southern soils and climate, very disease resistant and look beautiful in the landscape.
With your common sense rose-growing tip, I'm Skip Richter.
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July 6, 2006