Rose garden

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Rose Gardens - An Introduction

A rose garden is a garden dedicated to the growing as Roses as the focal point or main attraction.

A rose garden has a charm so rare that there is nothing comparable to it. Unfortunately it will always be for the few. On anything like a large and comprehensive scale it is a costly as well as difficult undertaking. Then again, excepting on a place of considerable size, it is a wasteful use of space as its glory is transient. To be thoroughly successful the hybrid perpetuals that bloom in June must be supplemented by enough Hybrid teas to keep up a show of color until autumn, and the longest possible succession must be arranged in planting the climbers. Even then, pansies, verbenas or some of the creeping perennials, as ground covers, and lilies or other tall flowers will have to be relied on to piece out the season. The ground covers can stand for several years if the soil is very heavily and deeply fertilized at the start. Or there are the numerous so-called Roses which properly enough might go in. Lavender, where it proves hardy, is very beautiful planted with China roses.

Better for the most a garden with roses, or else a little place apart too unpretentious to be designated a rose garden. A great many of the choicest roses are not particularly decorative and may just as well be grown in rows on the edge of the kitchen garden where they can be cut with long stems and in no fear of color robbery.

The Rose Garden

One cannot really have a garden without some Roses. No one ever wrote about gardens without giving elaborate directions for the care of the Rose garden. All sorts of Roses are admirable even, in a passing way, the freakish attempts at improvement such as the blue and the green Roses.

Rose Garden Location

Everyone has said the same thing about the location of the Rose garden, that it must be sheltered from the wind, but not surrounded, so that the air may have some circulation.

It must not be in the proximity of large, water-robbing trees. It should have sun the greater part of the day. But everyone cannot locate his Rose garden in an ideal spot.

A few hardy, robust kinds of roses can be grown under rather adverse conditions. Those we mention are favorites in the North; many others can be tried in less severe climates.