Few flowers evoke feelings of love and romance quite like the rose (genus Rosa). These iconic and symbolic perennials can bring vibrancy to your garden year after year, with delicate petals that bloom ...

When it comes to our rose gardens, many rosarians can relate to the motto “Go big or go home!” After all, we grow roses for their blooms, and we expect those blooms to be large, lustrous and abundant.

Fertilize roses starting in early to mid‑spring, once frost danger has passed and growth reaches ~6 inches. Continue feeding throughout the growing season—after each bloom cycle—with gradually reduced ...

Potassium is a common need for plants, and if you enjoy eating bananas, you already have a great source of this nutrient that ...

Here is the complete beginner’s guide to growing roses. Learn to make homemade rose fertilizer, how to site your plants and how to select cultivars. Roses are some of the most popular and beautiful ...

Banana peels add organic matter to the soil, but they don't provide enough nutrients for growing roses. Blood meal, fish emulsion, and bone meal are more ideal fertilizers for all kinds of roses.

Here the whole ground around a rose bush is mulched with compost. At this point the compost is also watered down well. It helps to get the fertilizer, which is underneath the compost, quicker into the ...

Q: I am taking care of two rose bushes and my fertilizing dates have been a month apart. That has not been a problem but now with fall coming on, my question is do I need to fertilize them another ...

Want more flowers on your rose bushes? If so then you need to provide them an extra boost through fertilization. Proper fertilization develops strong vigorous canes that will end in a big fat plump ...