Plant Care
Roses
Roses, the world’s favourite flowers, are great garden performers that, if well cared for, will live for many years and produce thousands of exquisite blooms.
Position
- Grow roses in a sunny spot with plenty of air movement around the plants.
Soil
- Before planting, dig in some well-aged manure or compost and some Dynamic Lifter pellets.
- In areas with acid soil, add some Yates Garden Lime.
Fertilising
- Feed rose plants regularly (at least monthly) during their growing season.
- Thrive Granular Rose Food and Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food can be alternated to provide roses with an all-round, healthy diet.
- Potted roses should be fed with Yates Once-A-Year Feeder for roses.
Pest & disease alert
- Black spot (dark spots on yellowing leaves), powdery mildew (white mouldy patches) and rust (raised orange bumps) are common fungal diseases that can seriously weaken roses.
- Insect pests such as aphids are attracted to the tender young shoots of roses.
- Control diseases and insect pests with Yates Rose Shield or Super Shield, combined systemic fungus and low toxic insect controls, or convenient, ready-to-use Yates Rose Gun.
- Confidor gives long-term systemic insect control, and once it’s dried, won’t harm garden friends like ladybirds and hoverflies.
- Yates Nature’s Way Pyrethrum is a natural insecticide that kills insect pests on contact.
- Yates Nature’s Way Insect Spray is an organic insecticide that also controls tiny sap-seeking mites.
Rose Pruning Tips
- Prune using sharp secateurs and a good pruning saw.
- Prune most roses in mid to late winter.
- Climbers, weepers and roses that only bloom in spring should be pruned after main flowering is over.
- Clear the centre of the bush and shorten all growth.
- Remove weak and spindly branches.
- Immediately after pruning, while roses have no leaves, spray with Yates Lime Sulphur to clean up fungal diseases, scales and mites.
Shopping list:
- Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food
- Yates Garden Lime
- Thrive Granular Rose Food
- Thrive Once-A-Year Feeder Roses
- Yates Rose Shield
- Yates Super Shield
- Yates Rose Gun
- Confidor Ready to Use
- Yates Nature’s Way Pyrethrum
- Yates Lime Sulphur
- Yates Nature’s Way Insect Spray
Handy tips:
- Wear strong leather gloves when pruning roses. Make sure that your fingers and the backs of your hands are well protected.
- Hang half-opened roses upside down to dry. They can then be used to make long-lasting bouquets.
- Cut blooms with long stems. This encourages more flowers to form.
| Autumn | Winter | Spring | Summer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use Rose Shield, Super Shield or Rose Gun to control disease | Plant new roses. Prune established bush roses. | Feed monthly. Begin spray program. Prune weepers and climbers. | Pick roses regularly. Control pest and diseases. |
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Trudy
Yates site member
19:55, 11 September 2009
could u please help me. I want to know were I can buy a whiskey rose. Thank you.
Loris
Yates site member
21:11, 11 September 2009
My Whiskey rose is 20 years old and still beautiful. Well worth looking for! It is a favourite of my 70 + roses.
verna
Yates site member
18:16, 12 September 2009
thank you for your help i pulled out my old roses and bought some new ones. They were really old and had too many diseases and the rest and did not flower for about 2 years properly. I was advised not to plant a rose in partial shade but has been doing really great . It does get really hot and dry , but i do water late afternoon.
Jim
Yates site member
17:15, 22 September 2009
Hullo I do not have a whiskey rose but I have come across afew orchids I have transplanted. I would like to know if I can spray them with shield. There is quite a bit of brown on the leaves. Any good advice would be greatful.
Margaret
Yates site member
21:32, 08 October 2009
I am just starting out and have 2 standards so far, Double Delight and Iceburg. I have heeded all advice and have been rewarded suitably, so far so good.
Margaret
Yates site member
21:33, 08 October 2009
I am just starting out and have 2 standards so far, Double Delight and Iceburg. I have heeded all advice and have been rewarded suitably, so far so good.
Norm
Yates site member
21:46, 08 October 2009
I have 14 standard roses leading to my front entrance. Alternating with an white Iceburg then Seduction, they are quite a picture
beth
Yates site member
22:32, 08 October 2009
I have starting growing roses again-Last time was in the 80s.I am having to re learn the feeding and spraying programme again. I have put in 2 standard Iceburg,2 bush Sexy Rexy and Double delight which has a perfume to die for.I have 2 climbers Dublin and Bantry Bay which I have grown from cuttings. So far the stds and climbers are covered in flowers.
Nijole
Yates site member
14:51, 17 October 2009
I would like to know where I can purchase a white rose called Kent Beauty I think it comes under another name Sparkler if any one knows please email
Terry
Yates site member
18:49, 29 October 2009
Help!!! I have 20 old standard roses dying at my school. I suspect they have suffered from spray-drift from the fungicide the painters used when they were spraying the school buildings. (Very professional!!) I've cut the roses down to about 1/2 their normal size. There are a few new shoots developing from the bases. I've fed them. What else can I do? It's quite tragic because these roses were donated over the last 25 years by teachers who left the school.
Rachael
Yates site member
10:04, 15 November 2009
Nijole, try the wairere website, they have Sparkler listed.
christine
Yates site member
17:42, 21 November 2009
hi I have just made a rose garden with 5 bush roses cant wait for them all when they flower.what should i do for mulch.or do i leave them just in soil
Sarita
Yates site member
09:50, 25 November 2009
Hi..i got problems with my roses, the new flower shoots just fell off, i dunno who are my enemies, i couldn't see them on daylight. Everytime i woke up in the morning, another flower shoot fall off. I haven't had flowers at this time yet. Please help me...it's very frustrating. By the way, i sprayed them with supershield and put some blitzem pellets on the ground, but it'not working.
Patsy
Yates site member
14:26, 12 January 2010
I have 130 roses and they are all doing beautiful.
diane
Yates site member
14:15, 14 January 2010
we have 5 standard iceburg oone came out pick tint then lost all the leafs and flowers
Pat
Yates site member
11:19, 03 February 2010
we have roses out the front of our house and out the back we have vegie in containers
suzanne
Yates site member
20:41, 20 February 2010
I have mini roses out the back pruned them in winter and they were a picture but now they have flowered all the leaves have gone and they dont look to good what is wrong any one help me
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