Rose Garden Design: A Guide to Having the Picture Perfect Rose Garden

By Grant John Lamont

Ask anyone who has a green thumb about rose gardening, and you may need a tape recorder to remember all the advice you'll get! Almost anyone who has an interest in gardening flowers and plants will eventually mosey into rose territory. It's almost irresistible because of the beauty and scent of one of the most popular plants on earth.

A rose is like no other. Rose gardening then will certainly open up grounds for controversy among fellow gardeners. It's a subject like that of rearing children. To the rose gardening crowd, their plants often become like their own children. They must be fed and nourished and guided properly to bloom and flourish into their majestic beauty.

Gardeners have been known to talk to their plants to coax them into perfect health.

Rose gardening is sure to involve getting your hands dirty. If you want to truly enjoy the experience, you must dig in with gusto and heartily embrace your adventure. Well, there are gloves, you know; but the earth welcomes the hands-on experience. Some say it is quite gratifying to become like one with the soil.

There is surely an art to rose gardening. The experience can be as simple or as scientific as you so choose. You may want to stock up on things like mulch, a shovel, a hoe, weed-killer, a watering can or hose, and maybe something called Miracle Grow or "food" for your rose plants. Not to mention bandaids if your plants have thorns! You're certain to get pricked at some point if you have the type of rose plant that produces thorns. It's all part of the true rose gardening experience. Roses have been known to contract diseases, so you want to know your plants well to be able to recognize unhealthy changes in their leaves, color, overall health. Any living thing is susceptible to such and must be monitored.

Certainly some research is recommended should you choose to begin rose gardening. It would be advisable to research your particular type of rose plant. The adorable miniature roses may need different care than another type of rose plant. Also, a rose that grows well in one area of the globe may struggle in another.

Unsure where to start? This book will teach you everything you'll ever need to know about the picture perfect rose garden your friends and neighbors will envy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Grant John Lamont
• Release date: Mar 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458080257

Grant John Lamont

Grant Lamont is an author, home improvement fanatic, freelance writer and part time consultant who has been a health and fitness devotee for 20 years. He believes in challenging yourself physically and mentally every day to keep yourself sharp and healthy. He left a lucrative career in the security industry to pursue his passion of writing non fiction full time.

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Rose Garden Design - A Guide to Growing the Picture Perfect Rose Garden

Grant John Lamont

Copyright 2010 by Grant John Lamont

Smashwords Edition

Contents:

All About Roses

The Rose: A Marian Symbol

Rose Gardening

What About Rose Gardening?

Rose Growing Tips

Designing Your Rose Garden

Making Your Flower Garden Ideas A Reality

3 Tips In Landscaping Your Garden

The Benefits Of Rose Shrubs

New Rose Gardening Checklist

Admiring The Old Garden Rose

Delicate Rose Care

Understanding Types Of Rose Gardens

All About Rose Gardening Pitfalls

Online Gardening Catalogues At Your Disposal

Hot Rose Gardening Tips

Home Gardening

In Search Of The Best Gardening Tools

Container Gardening Tips For Newbies

Discover Antique Roses

Grow Miniature Roses In Your Garden

Information On Miniature Roses

The Secrets Of Organic Rose Gardening

About The Rose Market

Have You Heard Of Floribundas?

Handy Tools For The Rose Gardening Rookie

How To Care For An Antique Rose

Learning About Nurseries

Healthy Hands Are The Gardener's Best Tools

Maintaining Your Rose Garden

Look After Your Roses Like A Treasure

Origin, Sentiment And Care Of Red Roses

Solutions To Common Rose Gardening Problems

Dealing With Rose Diseases

Why You Should Enjoy The Famous Yellow Rose

The White Rose Is Not Just Another Flower!

What About Roses Called Climbers?

What Do You Know About The English Rose?

You Can Grow Roses As A Groundcover

Why Would I Want To Grow Hybrid Teas?

Roses And Their Color Meaning

Gardening Plants

Gardening Gifts For All Occasions

All About Roses

Who hasn't heard of the most popular flowering plant of all time, the rose? The rose plant can spark a quick conversation amongst even the shyest of persons. Almost anyone can tell you of someone they know who has grown beautiful roses or of someone who couldn't. Almost anyone can tell you of someone who got or sent roses, especially around the holidays. Even little children know what the rose plant is.

The local florist most likely has dozens of colors, types, and sizes of rose plants. It would seem to be the best selling flower of all time. The local discount store and even the local grocer carries some sort of rose plant these days. In my opinion, the best rose is one that has a strong scent. A rose has a most distinct smell, and a scent welcome to most anyone. The fragrance is like no other and has been reproduced in perfumes and air fresheners for years. There are rose-scented oils and lotions, bath products. There are rose colors and rose images galore. You can find rose parades and people named Rose. You can even coming out 'smelling like a rose". All because of a mere plant that reached enormous proportions of popularity.

The rose plant is available in a wide variety of colors, sizes, and types. It is known worldwide. The prices vary depending on where you buy or what type and size you want.

Do you want a rose plant already started in a pot? You may have to repot it. Make sure you do your homework before you buy one.

When you decide what type of rose plant you'd like, think of placement. There is a plant called the thornless rose plant that will grow in the shade. But most rose plants are known to have thorns, so you wouldn't want your small child or grandchild or frequent tiny visitors to happen upon something that is so pretty that they can't resist grabbing and end up with an unwelcome handful of thorns. It may even sour them on the enjoyment of the rose plant for life because of a tearful memory. And roses are too beautiful to allow such a thing!

There are climbing rose plants which you most certainly wouldn't want trailing across the ground to be stomped by animals or other foot traffic. Some roses are delicate and unfiltered light would cook their leaves to an unwelcome brown. If your rose plant is the type that grows into a bush, you would want to place it in a spot that allows for it to spread. Rose plants carry so many different names, it's probably enough to fill a small book! Some of the names include Rose Blaze, Rose Red Eden, Rose New Dawn, Rose Neptune, Rose Zephirine, just to name a very few. If you want a rose that sounds like it belongs in a class all its own, you could buy a Rose Paris D'Yves St. Laurent! That's a mouthful! Happy Hunting!

The Rose: A Marian Symbol

In the Greco-Roman culture, the rose represented beauty, love and the season of spring. It also spoke of the fleetness of time, and therefore implied death and the next world.

In Latin Christian iconography, the first use of the rose appears in the scenes representing the next world. Also used were the lily and other flowers. These flowers also became symbols of virtues and of categories of the elect. The red rose represented the martyrs, and the lily, for the virgins. The rose as the queen of flowers, was evidently a privileged symbol for Mary. She is called a rose among the thorns. The rose is also a symbol of Christ who is called the Rose of Sharon. Wonderful examples of this symbolism are found in the gothic cathedrals and their rose windows. These circular stained glass windows enhance the three entrances of these churches. These immense roses symbolize the world of salvation offered and revealed by God to our lost human race through the old and New Testaments. Christ,