Growing Roses : How to Plant Hybrid Tea Roses
Hybrid tea roses are usually kept in a container, but they can be removed from the container to be planted in a good, organic soil. Lighten up the ...
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Long before the TV show "The O.C." made Newport Beach, Calif., famous, I was a gardener on Balboa Island. This built-up sandbar packed with beach houses has some of the most valuable real estate in Southern California. Back then, I tended my customers' roses, the old hybrid teas. They were particularly problematic at the beach, where the moisture made you work even harder for the flowers.
A recent visit to the island revealed a startling transformation -- it's overflowing with heavily blooming roses. They are everywhere, growing large and floriferous despite an unusually cool, damp summer. These are not the tea roses I tended, but a whole new group that can make any yard look like a rosarium.
They're loosely deemed "shrub roses" because they resemble ordinary low-maintenance flowering shrubs. Wherever you might plant a shrub -- along foundations, in beds and borders or to break up fence lines -- these roses will function perfectly. So if you've always longed for a garden of roses but didn't know where to start, here are more specifics on how they differ from the teas.
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