Category: Rose Gardening

• What’s a sport or even a sucker? Not what you think.

  For those new rose growers as well as the experienced rosarians, understanding the Rose Lingo will help you enjoy your newfound hobby of rose gardening to the fullest. Here is an updated list of rose glossary: AARS – All American Rose Selections ADR rose – a winner in the German ADR rose trial (Allgemeine Deutsche…

  SCLMRose

  18 Jun 2021

  Rose Gardening

  #RoseGlossary, #RoseLingo, #UniqueWords

• The Last Rose of Summer

  Fall is definitely in the air but as long as the weather stays mild, the roses will keep on blooming. I cleaned up the garden this weekend, pulling out all the bedraggled annuals and planted the rest of my spring bulbs. I saw some roses are still blooming but they are smaller than the spring…

  SCLMRose

  20 Nov 2018

  #amwriting, #Author’s Life, Blogging, Rose Gardening, Roses

  Gardening, Poems, Roses, Season

• Rosey things to do in September and October

    Twilight Zone     Warm, sunny days and cool nights make our roses bloom larger and more brilliantly colored. However, we still have to do our part to make it happen. The summer heat typically continues into the month of September in the Charleston area. Up north where I came from, the temperature usually…

  SCLMRose

  7 Sep 2018

  #amwriting, #Author’s Life, Blogging, Rose Gardening

  #amwriting, #writerslife, Inspiration, Rose Care, Rose Gardening

• Rose Gardening Tips – Weed Control

    A weed is a plant that you don’t want. There’s an old saying that if a weed can’t grow in a garden, no other plant will grow there either. When my roses look very healthy, my weeds are just as healthy. At this time of the year, weeds are one of the biggest problems…

  SCLMRose

  22 Aug 2018

  #amwriting, Blogging, Rose Gardening

  Rose Care, Rose Culture, Rose Gardening, Weed Control

• Controlling Some Rose Disease Problems the Safest Way

  A bed of Knock Out Roses at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.   As long as you can develop tolerance and not demand total perfection, you can enjoy growing roses without knowing all the solutions to every rose diseases. As we get older, we just don’t have the energy to maintain a perfect disease free rose garden.…

  SCLMRose

  15 Jul 2018

  #amwriting, Blogging, Rose Gardening

  Rose Care, Rose Culture, Rose Pests and Diseases, Sustainable Gardening

• A Rose (Rosa Banksiae) and a Tip for a Happy and Healthy Lifestyle

  Class: Rose Species Syns:   R. banksiana, Banksian rose, Banks’ Rose, Lady Banks’ Cultivated since 1796   Rosa banksiae is one of the best shrubs for a wall and in a few years will reach the top of most houses. It produces an abundance of pretty small roses with the sweetest fragrance you can imagine. The…

  SCLMRose

  8 Jul 2018

  #amblogging, #amwriting, #Inspirational, #MotivationalTips, #PositiveThinking, Blogging, Rose Gardening, Roses

  Inspiration, Motivational, Rose Gardening, Roses

• Pruning your Roses – A Spring Rite for Rosarians

  We prune our roses for several reasons – to keep our roses healthy, to control its excessive growth and to shape the bush for a better display.   Before we rush out there in the garden, make sure you have all the right equipments. A good pair of bypass pruner preferably Felco. No 2 is…

  SCLMRose

  11 Mar 2018

  #amwriting, #Author’s Life, Blogging, Pruning, Rose Gardening

• How many red roses do you have in your garden?

  Today is National Red Rose Day. A red rose conjures of romantic love, passion, respect and courage. In celebration of the National Red Rose Day, I’m listing the red roses in my garden. I have 21 red roses, 17 varieties.   1.       1 Mister Lincoln – dark red – Hybrid Tea 2.      2 Veterans’ Honor…

  SCLMRose

  12 Jun 2017

  #Author’s Life, #Love, #Romance, Blogging, Poems, Rose Gardening, Roses

• Rose Glossary

        Here is a Rose Glossary to help you understand some rose terms and enjoy your rose gardening hobby to the fullest.   AARS – All American Rose Selections AGRS – American Garden Rose Selections ADR rose – a winner in the German ADR rose trial (Allgemeine Deutsche Rosenneuheitenprüfung). No chemical pesticides have…

  SCLMRose

  30 Apr 2017

  Blogging, Rose Gardening, Roses

• The Green Rose for St. Patrick’s Day

    Is there a pot of gold for us lovers of roses?  For all the Irish in all of us, we can say we have a green rose, not St. Patrick rose which only has a tint of green, but a real green rose.  It is Viridiflora ‘Rosa Monstrosa’ otherwise known as The Green Rose. …

  SCLMRose

  17 Mar 2017

  #Holidays, Author’s Life, Blogging, Fragrant Roses, Rose Gardening, Roses