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Pruning Your Roses |
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Roses are very tolerant plants, and with a little care will flourish for many years.
Roses grow by producing new shoots, the upper part dieing off after a couple of years. When the upper part
of a stem dies, the lower part produces a new shoot which then goes through the same cycle. If a rose is not pruned,
it will turn into a mass of live and dead stems, preventing the circulation of air and cutting out light.
Pruning removes old wood, thus allowing air and light to reach all parts of the plant - this helps prevent disease. |
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PROPAGATING ROSES |
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Commercially almost all roses are propagated by budding. This takes a large degree of skill and involves buying rootstocks.
For this reason most amateur gardeners who propagate roses, do so by using cuttings. This is the easiest way to propagate
plants for you own rose garden at little cost.
Some modern roses are not sufficiently vigorous to propagate by cuttings - only the stronger growing varieties such as
'Iceberg' and 'Peace' are amongst those which are suitable.
Mid-November is the ideal time for rose cuttings. This season's leaves have (or are) fallen off, and the plant has not yet
started to form next year's leaf buds. This is the time when your rose has the most potential for producing roots from hardwood cuttings. |
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DEAD-HEADING ROSES |
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Dead-heading is simply removing dead flowers at regular intervals. This encourages the growth of more flowers
later in the season. The flowers can be pinched off with your fingers or a pair of secateurs.
With floribundas, where several flowers are produced on each stem, cut the stem, just below the truss of flowers.
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WEEDING AND MULCHING
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Roses have long tap roots to anchor them into the soil, but they gain most of their food from their near-surface root system.
It's therefore important to keep the weeds under control. Mulching with well-rotted organic material does this job well and
also provides a slow feed of nutrients.
The best time to mulch is late Spring - the soil is moist but at the same time is warming up.
If weeding is required, don't dig around the plants - weed by hand or on the surface with a hoe
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Nutrients of Rose |
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General elements of rose are 16.3% crude protein, 2.9% crude fat, 5.4% crude ash, 16.1% crude fiber. As for free sugar, fructose, glucose and xylose were detected. 205.2 ¥ìg/100 g of ¥â-carotene and 129.5 mg/100 g of ascorbic acid were also detected. Inorganic elements were K, P, Mg, Ca, Na, Fe and K was richest with 1,981.7 mg/100 g. Amino acid were 4,007.3mg of aspartic acid, 1,114.8mg of glutamic acid, 672.6mg of lysine and 661.0mg of leucine. Fat acid were 76.3% of unsaturated fatty acid. Among them, 58.2% were linoleic acid
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- Quoted from the Korean Society of Food and Nutrition Journal - |
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