Thursday, December 2, 2010

Caring for your rose tree garden

A rose garden, have your ever gazed upon one? Rose trees are a treat to have in any one's garden.  After a few years of working with "normal" rose bushes we decided to plant a rose tree. My Aunt Ruby was the one who introduced us to rose trees.  She has a wonderful garden.  Not only did she have a wide variety of rose bushes she had a rose tree garden.

There are so many types of rose trees that she didn't have two alike.  Her rose tree garden was a excellent place to relax.  Rose trees are basically a root stock grafted to a stem or standard and then grafted to a rose bush.  The long standard is responsible for the "tree" name.  The average height of a rose tree is between [...]