Make Your Garden Colourful With Roses

GARDEN DESIGN, PLANTING AND MANAGEMENT

GARDEN DESIGN

Where space permib, rose can be cultivated in a special garden. This consists of a number of beds grouped together in simple design. The construction of rose garden involves design, choice of varieties, preparation of soil and planting. In case of formal design, a rose garden needs a focal point. This type of garden need not, of course be of fobnal design, as noses can be equally attractive in an irregular enclosure and in beds of informal shape, provided that the garden is planned for pictorial effect. The path or space behveen the beds can be composed of grass, which always forms a pleasing setting to a bright display of flowers of any kind or of gravel or broken flagstones. The length of such a garden may vary from a simple bed of hybrid tea roses surrounded by turf to elaborate designs. This may include climbers and ramblers on walls or rustic arches and fences together with uniform borders of Floribundas, Standards, Weeping Standards and several beds of Hybrid Tea, Miniature and Polyantha roses can also serve a useful purpose in borders and edges. This type of garden will offer good opportunities for growing of many attractive rose species, too (Bhattacharjee, 2004).

Rose can be effective when seen in group and flourish for several years and of course they produce superb individual flowers. The traditional pattern of rose garden dates back to the mediaeval garden, in which the enclosed garden was divided in to small, regular p/ots around in central dipping well or fountain, and from which herbs and flowers could be picked from the intervening paths. In the later Victorian and Edwardian eras the enclosed garden entirely for roses retained this concept of formal beds cut out of the turf around a central feature of pool, sundial or statute and today in many public parks this is still the pattem. In the present housing development roses are treated as the shrubs or herbaceuuu plants in the mixed border with three or five bushes in a group in pockets among other plants. This method allows the roses lo be set into a background of shrubs or other foliage plants which enhance their blooms. Background color is very important for an appreciation of roses. Walls of brick or stone or color wash and timber fencing all need roses of contrasting colors against them for effective results. tithe garden is large enough, a more informal or abstract or abstract pattern can often fit better into the site and different steed beds can lend themselves to a more balanced color palette. Of all the garden plants the rose probably has the more varieci applications, for bedding, for hedging, for screening, for ground cover and coon. 

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