Creative Ideas For Planting Roses
There are many different ways of planting roses, and many different reasons for changing how you plant them. One reason may be as simple as the fact that a garden entirely of roses would be considered a “monoculture,” meaning that if a disease or a pest strikes one kind of rose in the garden, it’s likely to take them all out. Some varieties are more vulnerable than others; for example, the tea rose tends to be more susceptible to such things. But it still might be wise to plant not just roses in your flower garden, but other flowers as well, to try to mitigate that danger.
This means, of course, that when planting roses, you need to plan their spacing perhaps more precisely than you otherwise might have, and choose their growing partners with some care. If you were to plant miniature roses near petunias, for example, the roses would probably get overwhelmed and disappear. Climbing roses and sweat peas are likely to fight for wall or trellis space. For standard roses, which tend to grow fairly tall, you could plant violets or pansies below them. And all of this is naturally combined with the necessity to choose colors that work well together.
You could plan different configurations for the bushes too. For example, by planting roses more closely together and cutting the leaves in specific ways, you can produce a rose hedge. If you border your sidewalks with hedges such as these, even going out for a stroll would feel (and smell!) like a small stroll through a bower. Planting roses to climb a fence behind some lower annuals in beds around the edges of the property could also provide additional attraction to your garden design.
When setting annuals between and among your roses, you might create a rose garden design that’s different from what you’ve been prone to do in the past. You could place more shade tolerant roses along walls where you’ve never had them before, and show off the colors of your roses by creating a contrasting background color with your annuals.
You can experiment with all sorts of companions and configurations when planting roses with other flowers or finding creative ways to arrange the roses themselves. You can help reduce the risk of all your roses succumbing to pests or disease, and create a lush arrangement of many different types of flowers at the same time.
Rose gardening can do wonders for your health. How can planting roses help your health? The simple act of tending your garden can help relieve a lot of stress from your life.
