ROSE BUSHES

We have taken them into consideration separately due to special interest they arise in comparison with other trees, nevertheless they are shrubs too and need the same growing cares. During the weeding it is necessary to remove not only the weeds but also the wild buds growing below the grafting point as they steal the lymph from cultivated branches. They are easily recognizable due to their shape and their colour. The buds have to be removed at its base, if necessary by taking away the soil to reach them, otherwise they will grow again very soon. First pruning has to be made just before the shrub gemmates, at the beginning of the season, leaving the few best branches (3-4) with 3-4 or more burgeons depending on the strength of the plant. It is also better to remove the old, diseased branches leaving the young and healthy ones. Second pruning concerns, most of all, the flourishing again species and is consisting in the pruning of withered flowers together with 1 or 2 leaves below them. Close to the left bourgeons new flowers will open. Rose-bushes have to be treated with anti-parasites more than other shrubs as they are particularly subject to insect pests like aphids, acarus, oidium and so on.