How to successfully grow roses (my own experience) ....

Preparation steps

• In order to successfully grow roses, they need to be given the basic conditions: 1-SUN-roses need at least 6 hours of sun a day. They like the morning sun, and thrive poorly on the north side of the house. Based on that, choose where to plant roses. 2-WATER-roses "drink" a lot of water, but do not like their root to be constantly in wet soil. I water the roses 2 times a week but dooobrooo soak the soil around the roots. Be sure to water early in the morning and never water from above over the plant because yeast leaves cause various diseases. 3-FERTILE SOIL-even if you have clay soil (like me) you can greatly improve the quality by adding in spring and autumn compost and organic garden soil full of manure. 4-FOOD - roses are big "eaters", but you should take care of what you feed them. I use organic food-mix in granules in the spring and at the end of the 8th month (directly into the ground around the rose roots), and during the summer liquid fertilizer ( with regular watering) .Do not use strong fertilizers (eg 20-20-20) .For roses is enough NPK 5-5-5 because it evenly feeds the root and tree and flowering. 5-CUTTING-don't be afraid to cut your roses. The branches will grow healthy, even better. In early spring, be sure to shorten the roses to the height of your knee. Cut at an angle of 45 degrees. For tea leaves 2 or 3 healthiest and thickest branches. Everything else For floribundas leave 4 or p branches but be careful not to cross in the center of the bush (free the center due to aeration of the plant, and so it will not be sick). Climbing roses are a story unto themselves. I grow hybrids - they bloom on new and on old branches. 6-MULCH In America, a thick layer of crushed wood (mulch) or pine needles must be placed around the roses. In this way, soil moisture is preserved and protected from weeds. 7-SPRAY-regular schedule of spraying against diseases and insects (I mix together) Your roses are healthy and protected. I use my calendar for the whole year and I spray roses every 15 days.
• When planting newly purchased roses, dig a hole 2 times larger than the pot in which it was purchased. Do not add any food except put 1-2 banana peels on the bottom. That will be enough until the rose adjusts. Let the soil in which it grew remain just a little "release" the root.At the bottom of the hole over the bark put compost. so the rose behind the ground and lightly add more organic soil but not to the top of the hole.Drink a full hole of water, and when the water "absorbs" add compost to the top and lightly tap your hands around the planted rose to break out the air.
• If you have a rose climber, then train it as horizontally as possible, because in this way you have new shoots and therefore a lot of flowers. If you leave the climber to grow only upright, then you have 2-3 flowers only at the top (at the ends) and all that was left were empty leaves without flowers.
• If you plant several roses next to the house or by the road, do not line them up next to each other as soldiers, but plant them in a zigzag pattern (first row-rose-space-rose second row space-rose-space). When they grow full size (for 2-3 years), there will be a beautiful chain of roses without a break between them.
• I do not separate roses by colors and types, but all together, with lower roses (miniature and miniflora) in front of tall bushes. Some mini roses are really mini flowers, but the bush is a normal size like florubunda or tea tree.
• Be sure to give roses 1 cup (250 g) of Epsom salt twice a year because it is a source of magnesium. I use a liquid fish fertilizer (organic seafood), which has a terrible "smell" but roses adore it. It acts as a multivitamin.
• Some roses "clean" themselves (they lose the flower) and some I have to "clean" myself because after flowering they look so ugly behind the remains of petals on the branches. In that case, cut the roses under the first 5 leaves on the branch. Where you make the cut you have a new shoot, and new flowers.
• When spraying roses, do it EXCLUSIVELY in the morning. I water my day before doooobrooo to make spraying easier. If you spray in the middle of the day in the middle of strong sun, the leaves can be damaged.
• From August 1-15, I feed and shorten the roses once more and then I don't cut them anymore until winter, because the young shoots that will appear in the fall can't survive strong frosts. for 1/3 due to the wind or don't give snow.
• When you want to pick roses for a bouquet, take a bowl of water with you and after cutting it, immerse it in water immediately. I always carry a bottle of alcohol with my pruner (scissors). Every time I cut a rose, when I switch from one rose bush to another, I sterilize the pruner with alcohol because it is the most common vector of the disease.