Petitti Guide to 8 Rose Types: Qualities, Care & Varieties

Hi everybody, this is Noelle from Petites and we are doing a rose Spotlight. I have a lot of roses here in front of me. So we're going to go over everything that they need to be successful in your garden. First of all, roses are definitely a full sun plant. They love a ton of sunlight. So really six or more hours. If you've got greater than six, that's great. No problem. But six or more hours, solid direct sunlight on their foliage and flower. Awesome. Okay. Absolutely wonderful. So southern, western exposure, excellent. Eastern exposure is usually okay as well, just with no obstructions, no shade. The other thing that they really enjoy is rich, well-amended soil. So again, we always talk about, you know, Trying to add as much organic matter to your soil so you have a good, well-draining soil mix that's got a lot of natural nutrients in it. So that's always very important for the roses as well, okay? Planting them to the soil level in the containers that you purchase them in, that's really, really good too. So you don't want to bury the graft on some of the hybrid teas and floribunda roses. This is that needs to be up. above the soil level you don't want it to get wet any damage in any cold wet weather or anything like that okay so keep that in mind um the other thing is watering now again with most of our plant material you're looking at one inch of water one time per week you want to do a deep thorough watering if you don't have any rainfall if you do have rainfall then you're just supplement Um, just the watering that they do need, but it's that one inch of water per week, excuse me, and they can take some heat and some drought, but they really do well if you kind of keep on that watering schedule for the roses. I would say fertilizer is pretty key with roses and we normally will start to fertilize them as they flush out in the spring. Typically we will start in April or May with the rose fertilizer schedule and we like to recommend rose tone and iron tone to go on the roses. And typically, via package instructions, you're fertilizing monthly with the Rose Tone, okay? So that's a good regimen to stick with. Whatever fertilizer you choose to use, really just stick with the package instructions as far as the application rates. A lot of these roses Thank Breeding in roses has become better and better and better as far as the disease resistance with these varieties. So we first found this with your knockout roses. you Knockout roses are a shrub or a landscape rose that are very, so very disease resistant, very cold hardy. much. They grow on their own root. They are not grafted. And that's when we first started to see these roses that were resistant to your powdery mildews and your black spots and so on. Now a lot of breeding has moved into the grafted types of roses, so we now see more resistance in hybrid teas and floribundas. You always want, if you do have a rose that you have seen problems in the past, You always want to make sure you are spraying that rose with a fungicide. You can use a copper fungicide. There's lots of fungicide products on the market, but you want to use it as a preventative. So if you've seen problems on your rose before and you mark it on your calendar, the next season, try to get ahead and spray that fungicide on the plants before you even see signs of that disease happening. So that's good to keep that gardening calendar. Um, another thing with the roses, of course, the rose family, they do, insects love them. There's, there's many, many insects, including Japanese beetles. They absolutely love roses and it's the rose family in general. They, they attract a lot of insect issues. So keep your eyes out. Um, there's anything from aphids to obviously Japanese beetles. You have, um, gosh. Rose midge, you've got rose slugs. There's quite a bit out there. So the best defense is using integrated pest management. Get out there, inspect the roses, you know, every day, every other day, try to find, you know, the issues before they get bad. And then you can start by just Spraying off the roses with a cold, hard stream of water at first, and then you can kind of go into different treatments. Things like insecticidal soaps work well. Neem oil works well for numerous issues. Captain Jack's Dead Bug Brew, you can start with your kind of natural controls first, and then you can move into things like an eight spray and what have you. So just keep in mind That inspection really helps as far as the roses are concerned. Next thing with roses is lots of people ask, gosh, how do you prune these? How do you deadhead? And I'm always going to tell you, continue to deadhead the roses throughout the season, no matter what type of rose you have, because that will always produce new and better bud and bloom growth on your plants. If you can't get out there, you know. Every week, that's fine. It's really not a problem. They'll bloom through. They'll just bloom so much better if you can continue to deadhead and cut back. So with shrub roses, like the petite knockout in front, you really can just clip little flowers here and there and do it once a week or once every other week and they'll be fine. They'll bloom through. But if you have a larger rose, something like a hybrid tea rose, You do wanna remove those spent flowers fairly regularly so you continue to get that rose to produce for you. And whenever we deadhead a rose, we often talk about, you probably heard people say, prune down to a five leaflet leaf, okay? So it has five leaves, or you can cut down and count three to five leaves before you prune it down. Uh below the flower. Okay, so we'll show you Taylor and I are going to show you But typically what I do is I kind of count one leaf set two leaf sets and then actually down here i've got new outward facing growth that's coming off of this rose so i'm going to clip at a diagonal at a 45 degree angle just above this new growth so we'll show you a close-up but you just are looking for that new outward facing growth that's That's coming out of the rose. And basically this is a five leaflet. leaf set, if you will. And so you could prune just above that. But like I said, the plant showing me new growth, I'm just going to prune right above the new growth. Okay. So keep that in mind. Um, what else did I want to say about deadheading? Well, that's pruning in general. Um, we can talk about a little bit of winter care and in our area in Northeast Northeast Ohio, we tend to let the roses die back naturally. If you have very tall stems like on a hybrid tea rose, you can get them to a manageable height. We usually say about two to three foot tall and then what we want you to do is actually tie them together so that those rose canes aren't kind of flapping out in the winter wind. We call that rose rock where they can actually kind of pull the rose out from the soil if they're whipping around in So tie those together. And then we do want you to mulch kind of heavily, and this is in November, folks, mulch the root base of that rose, okay? So about six inches of mulch on that rose. You don't have to worry about that with your landscape shrub roses like Knockout. You really don't have to protect them for the winter at all, but with your hybrid teas, Your grandifloras, your floribundas, you do want to make sure that you're giving them some added winter protection. And again, that doesn't start until November for us, okay? Okay. One other thing that I forgot to mention with winter protection, spraying with Wilt-Stop, spraying those canes that are left upright, that's really good. It keeps all the moisture in the canes. They don't dry out because of the desiccating winds over the winter. So think about that as well. I think we're going to kind of go through varieties here, and I'm just going to touch on different varieties, care, and that type of thing. And I'll start with the shrub, landscape shrub roses, if you will. This is a new variety of knockout. It's called Petite. It is very small. It's almost in the miniature rose category. But what I'm going to tell you about all the knockout roses is that they, again, are very cold hardy, grow on their own root system. And they get very very little as far as leaf disease is concerned. Again, watch out for the insects with them. They are repeat bloomers. You don't have to deadhead them necessarily, although they'll always look better when you do. And they'll just keep on going and going and going throughout the season. I have a drift rose over here. This is Coral Drift. Beautiful, what we call a ground cover type rose. They're very low and mounding. They do have kind of a spreading habit to them. So they're sort of a low front border or middle border type rose. Beautiful, again, repeat blooming flowers on these plants. The drift roses are just as disease resistant. as a knockout rose okay so they are very very good as far as disease is concerned again when you can deadhead these that will always be beneficial but you don't necessarily have to do it every day okay um other roses that you should consider i think this one is fabulous this is This is actually a hybrid. of what we call a rugosa rose so it's an old-fashioned they used to call them beach tomato rose has a very different look from other roses but again grows from its own root is very very thorny so be careful but this one is a hybrid it's Raspberry Rugosa Star And it has the cleanest foliage I've seen on a rugosa rose. Beautiful single flowers, nice raspberry pink color. But again, this rose, if you enjoy rose hips, it will produce the rose hips, that fruit, that orangey fruit at the end. If not, you can clip them and it'll continue to bloom for you. But really a cool, larger shrub rose, okay? Okay. This one in front of me is called Brick House. This is a Floribunda. And how you basically see Floribundas or, you know, identify them is they produce on a kind of small compact bush, I would say about three to four foot is typical height and width of these guys. And what they do is they produce a cluster of rose flowers. So if you were to cut this stem, Where you can cut it again counting down the three to five leaf sets. You cut it and you the result is a little bouquet. Now the flowers aren't as large as something like a hybrid tea but again very very profuse and there are oh gosh a ton of varieties of floribundas. All different colors. I think the breeding in floribunda has really come a very very long way. You start to see every color, every multicolor in this type of rose, okay? Okay. I do have the hybrid tea, as I mentioned. Hybrid tea is your classic, typically your very perfumey rose, beautiful, just beautiful flower, very high petal count, typically, where you get a lot, you know, just a ton of petals in there. What's... Really cool about the hybrid teas, of course, is that they are a true single-stemmed rose. You can cut these stems long or short, depending on what you want to use them for. But again, keep cutting so they keep producing for you. This is Crazy Love, and she, oh my gosh, super perfumey. Just absolutely gorgeous fragrance with that. I have a Grandiflora back here, and Taylor will show you a picture. Sure, but the Grandiflora's. They're a little bit different in that they're taller and I should have said the hybrid teas are probably four, five, six foot tall in northeast Ohio. They'll develop tall canes, grandifloras as well, very tall, very sturdy. Typically what they do is they produce long stems but they have multiple buds on the ends of the stem so they produce again a multiple flower This is Tahitian treat or treasure, excuse me. And it has a beautiful cabbagey rose color and cut. It's just gorgeous. This one right here is Cherry Frost. It is a profuse climber. So this climbing rose is going to get around the six and a half, seven foot mark when it does fill out. All of your climbing roses do need support to make sure you do have trellising or you are able to kind of train those stems up your supports and then tie loosely to the support because they don't have any adventitious roots that can connect to that support so you've always got to tie and kind of train the stems up okay. They are this cherry frost is a small bloomer but beautiful bright red and again in clusters and it's a repeat bloomer throughout the season so look for this one foliage is beautiful bright green absolutely gorgeous. And then I do have a miniature here. This is SunBlaze, Golden SunBlaze, actually. All the SunBlazes that we grow are typically in containers. So they're ready to go right on the porch, the deck, the patio, wherever you've got that full sun condition. And man, they are hardy as heck. They grow on their own root. Again, multiple flowering, repeat flowering, very good disease resistance. So if you're looking for, again, smaller compact varieties, they'll do wonderfully for you. Okay. Again, roses continue to cut, make sure they're in full sun, make sure they have well-drained soil they have. Winter protection for your hybrid teas, your floribundas, your grandifloras, your landscape roses like the drift or the knockouts. You don't have to worry about them at all, really, for the winter. And, oh, just cut back. So I forgot to mention cutting back in spring. I really like to wait until the roses start to flush out a little bit so where you see where the new growth is, and you remove that winter damage down to the uppermost. growth that's being produced. I will have to say with your knockouts and your drifts you can really cut them pretty heavy all the way across typically six to twelve inches okay so those are very very easy to take care of but your your taller cutting roses you do want to wait until that new growth comes out try to develop with all roses try to develop real strong about five or six stems or or canes that fill out and do very, very nicely for you. I think that's it on roses folks, enjoy!