Planting A Beautiful Rose Garden: Success vs. Failure

Roses are arguably the most well-known flower around, and have been featured in paintings, sculptures, movies, television, and other mediums for many years. It's not surprising that people would want to have their very own rose garden displayed on their property for them to enjoy and the world to see. Roses can be very aesthetically pleasing to the eye and are known as one of the best smelling flowers in the world. Roses are symbols of love and will often times be given to a lover to show that the person giving them the rose cherishes them and loves them deeply.

Testing the soil that you're going to be planting your rose garden on should be your top priority before planting the roses. I can't tell you have many stories I've heard of people who planted their roses in a particular patch of soil and had them die because the soil wasn't capable of producing the roses. Garden shops and home and gardening departments in big chain stores like Wal-Mart and Lowe's will have soil testers for sell. Once you purchase one, test the soil's pH level and if it's between 5.6 and 6.6, you're good to go

. The next thing you need to do is make sure that the rose garden will be in a place that has a lot of sunlight. Roses love to bask in sunlight and will eat it up like candy. Roses like sunlight so much that they need at least 6 hours of it per day. Obviously, planting your rose garden in a place overshadowed by trees is a bad idea because the amount of sunlight they need will simply not get to them. If you can't tell which areas outside your home are the best for sunlight, wake up right before sunrise, go out, and when the sun comes up see which areas around your home are filled with sunlight first.

Watering is the next step in ensuring you have a successful rose garden. If you water your rose garden once or twice a week, this will be enough to help the root system of the rose bush get established. Make sure that the soil is well drained too, because too much moisture in the soil will result in your rose garden getting too much and could potentially kill your roses.  

To sum up, roses are a thing of beauty and should be treated as such. Planting white roses and red roses together could be another thing you want to try as this is aesthetically pleasing as well (the colors really go great together). All in all, it just takes a bit of common sense to ensure your rose garden will be rich and healthy. Test the soil before planting, make sure the area has plenty of sunlight, and keep the water intake at a safe level, and before you know it you'll have a beautiful rose garden that your neighbors and friends will be jealous of.

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