June Rose Growing
...one of a series, for a complete year

June Rose Growing is a very active time on the Rose Growing Calendar. Roses are in their first full bloom and many rose societies are hosting their yearly rose show. Now is the time to consider following a yearly “how-to” plan for your rose garden. Use ours to help you build yours. Rose gardeners have a reputation for sharing information!

The roses start blooming in earnest and it is also the month of many Rose Society's Rose Shows...make sure you visit one.

Things To Do For June Rose Growing:

-Apply a well-balanced granular rose food, 1/2 cup per bush.

-Water at least once a week (if not raining) and watch any pots you have.

-Continue your spraying program with fungicide (foliar fertilize at the same time) and keep a watch for insect invasions.

-Take advantage of any visits available to other rose gardens and make a list of any roses you would like to have in your garden.

-Weed. (An on-going job.)

-Deadhead your roses to ensure continuing bloom.

Dead-heading:

- Spent blooms on roses need to be removed to encourage the rose to keep on producing new blooms. Many rosarians cut back the spent stem to the first five-leaflet leaf or a strong-growing three-leaflet leaf. The new school of thought, however, (Lt. Col. Ken Grapes, Botanica's Roses) is that dead flower heads should be snapped off at the slightly swollen section in the stem just below the bloom, and this applies to all large-flowered roses.

Research has shown that the more leaves a rose retains, the better its performance.

You don't have to deadhead any roses which have only one period of bloom if they produce attractive hips such as many of the OGR's (Old Garden Roses).

Later in the season, in October and November, discontinue dead-heading to force the rose to quit production and enter into dormancy for the winter. This also allows for the formation of rose hips for winter interest in a good many different varieties of roses.

...and did we say this before, get out in the garden, cut some flowers and make some bouquets for your friends and your home. You have our permission to enjoy your roses!

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