How To Plant Roses
The best place to start when learning how to plant roses is getting the location right. Any rose no matter how hardy will become sick and not produce blooms at their best if it’s planted in the wrong place. Therefore you need to choose a location to plant them that meets all their needs. This ideal is somewhere that allows for plenty of air circulation and gives the right levels of sun, temperature, soil and light.
Rose’s need a warm spot with sun or partial shade, never place them in parts of the garden that harbour damp and cold. For adequate air circulation it’s an absolute necessity to avoid strong wind but at the same time necessary to provide a nice breeze.
Learning how to plant roses depends also on good soil, it needs to be quite loose to a good depth as a rose’s lower roots can suffer badly in waterlogged areas. The best soil for a rose is one with a ph balance of between 7.1 and 6.2. There are plenty of types of old roses, they tend to be the softer colours with a more velvety soft texture, which can survive quite well in soils much less matched to the above requirements but they are becoming harder and harder to find on sale.
One thing to avoid at all costs when learning how to plant roses is to plant a new rose in the bed of an old one. Roses can positively thrive is the same soil for years and years but as soon as you plant a new rose in an old rose’s soil it will inevitably become sick and never reach it’s true potential, this is called, amongst other things, replant disease.
If you do have no other place to plant a new rose than in the bed of an old one then some determined digging is necessary, remove at least 25 inches and replace with either fresh soil or soil from vegetable bed, with either mix with compost. Even better would be to use the soil from the nursery where your new rose came from.
Dig a hole about 50 centimetres deep making sure to remove any old root stock you may find. Now remove any old looking or decaying roots from the new rose and place in the hole, refilling loosely until the ground level around the rose is just slightly higher that that around it.
Tread the soil down lightly and water a lot.
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