Landscaping Roses

Landscaping with roses is good way you can add beauty to the overall look of your yard. Part of your landscaping plans can include roses in a garden all its own, as bushes, climbers, or combined in a garden with other landscaping plants and flowers.

Among the easy to care for long blooming roses available today there are types that are excellently suited for landscape use. The small, compact roses are terrific as edges along walkways or narrow flower beds. These roses will also do very well in containers. Low spreading roses would be good as a ground cover. The upright varieties of roses can be planted as a border or 3 to 4 feet apart for an informal hedge. Climbing roses, on the other hand, are great on trellises, fences, or an archway entrance to the backyard garden.

You can add a bit of color to your home landscape by a group of roses around the foundation of your house. Planting a rose bush with showy colors can be designated as a specimen plant. Planting them in groups of 3 to 5 plants will give you a big show of color and texture. Planting a rose bush or two can work as problem solvers. If you have something to hide such as a trash can, small utility shed, air conditioning unit, or a pool pump, planting rose bushes to hide them works wonders. In just a matter of months these bushes will turn into a group of beautiful flowers and devises a new look for that area.

You can create a fence with roses. You can have your own get-away garden within your garden for reading or meditating by planting a rose fence in a circle or semi-circle; a privacy fence can be built with climbing roses. Set your own moods in different areas of the garden with your gardening roses. You can achieve dramatic effects by planting combinations of yellows and red together or dark blues and pinks together. Planting different shades of pink with pink geraniums will create a soothing atmosphere.

Gardening for nature seems to be a very popular rage these days. We can start to build a wildlife habitat garden by using landscaping rose bushes. The roses will provide food and shelter for all types of wildlife while the thorns will keep away predators. The rose hips will keep the birds and animals fed during the cold winter months. If you are getting tired of replanting your plant container every year plant it with a rose bush shrub instead. This will perk up your deck or patio with a bit more color and a little fragrance without having to go into the garden to enjoy them. These containers can be moved around anytime they are needed.

Do something different by replacing your annuals with some hardy rose bushes. Why continually plant those geraniums, snapdragons, and impatiens year after year? For all the seasons, every year, a wonderful alternative is a mass planting of bush roses. Pick the rose colors that will help show off your perennials. Do you have way too much green in your landscaping? You can actually paint a backdrop with colorful landscaping rose bushes. If you have a white backyard fence plant some yellow and orange roses to brighten it up. You can plant bright red roses up against a stone wall for a stunning backdrop.

Plant your roses with the right companion plants such as perennials, annuals, or other shrubs. Some blue companion plants such as cornflowers and ageratum along with violet plants like heliotrope work very well with pink, yellow, and white roses. Plant a rose bush as a small tree in a container on your patio or deck. These roses are known as rose standards; these mini-rose trees will bring color and stand out in a corner of your deck or patio. Remember, there is always room for roses in any landscaping.