Five Ideas for a Rose Garden Room
Here are a few ideas that were picked up round and about of what you can do with roses or in your rose garden. Some of these could be the basis for creating a garden room with roses. Some are design ideas using roses that could be incorporated anywhere.
A Fence Full of Roses in your Flower Garden
We know that climbing and rambling roses like to climb. Hence the name. You can create a rose covered chain link fence by covering it with a rose plant every 2-3 feet. Start with bare-stemmed root stock. Then train the new growth along the fence and support frames. Within a few years, you’ll have a fence full of blossoming roses.
Want Color in a Sunny Corner?
Do you have a bare, sunny corner in your yard? That can be the perfect spot for a small rose garden. Add a few large rocks, even some attractive tree stumps or large pieces of driftwood. Then plant 3-5 rambling roses and stay out of the way. Sooner than you know you will be more concerned with containing the roses than what you will ever do with that bare corner.
Entice Roses Up a Lamp Post
A fellow gardening enthusiast's mother gets credit for this one. She planted a rose bush at the base of her driveway lamp. As it grew, she trained a few stems to grow up along the lamp post. The result was incredible. Red roses twining around the pole, over the top of the lamp, and then spilling around the ground at its base.
A Potted Rose Garden
Miniature hybrids and tea roses can be quite happy growing in terracotta pots and other containers. If you have a sunny patio or porch, try filling a large strawberry jar with a couple of tea rose bushes. You can plant the pockets with trailing alyssum and purple lobelia or any other type of trailing flowers that will complement your roses and their colors.
A Mixed-Up Rose Garden
Try companion planting with your roses. Roses work well with other plants, especially with garlic and onion plants. Not only do these lower growing plants hide the leggy stems of some rose varieties. They also provide the added bonus of keeping some rose pests off the roses, which is one reason for companion planting.
© 2005, Sandra Dinkins-Wilson
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