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Posted: June 22 2009 at 6:09am | IP Logged Quote time4tea
I hope it's okay to ask a gardening question here, if not, please move
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Here goes - we just planted about 5 tea roses in our garden, and I need some tips on keeping them blooming and healthy! As the blooms fade, do I need to "dead-head" them, and if so, what's the best method of doing this? Do you feed roses with any particular product? How about pests? Please share what you do to keep your roses in top shape!

Thank you all in advance!

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Posted: June 22 2009 at 6:21am | IP Logged Quote stefoodie
Oooh, thanks so much for bringing this up! I need some tips too. I know NOTHING about roses and have several I have to learn to maintain.

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Posted: June 22 2009 at 12:22pm | IP Logged Quote Fe2h2o
My roses are nothing to look at—I was going to remove them to make a croquet lawn, but plans change:-)

However, in years past, I had some beautiful roses, and I went along to a local garden centre because they were offering a workshop on pruning roses. They went through the process carefully (remove dead wood, remove about 2/3 the growth, remove inward pointing branches, always cut just above a bud—preferably one facing outwards, cut on an angle).

Then they described a study done somewhere (so, I have no _actual_ facts to back this up:-) ). In some large rose garden, 1/3 of the bushes were pruned very particularly, 1/3 were left unpruned, and the final 1/3 were pruned with mechanical hedge-trimmers (basically, straight across the top). The following year, the carefully pruned bushes flowered abundantly, the unpruned barely flowered, and the hacked at ones flowered just a little less than the carefully pruned ones.

So basically they suggested pruning as carefully as you could, but that really, it didn't matter much:-) Roses are fairly forgiving:-)

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