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Landscaping With Roses

Landscaping and the use of Roses is one way to add color and beauty to any yard. Part of the Landscaping plans should include Roses of some kind to blend in with you other Landscaping plants and flowers.

The long blooming Roses that are available today are very good to include with other Landscaping plants because of the longer lasting bloom and they are easy to maintain. The small, compact rose bushes make beautiful container plants and brighten up a walkway. A good ground cover is the low spreading rose. The tall variety of Roses can be planted three to four feet apart to form a border hedge and climbing Roses are good on fences or trellises.
You can hide the foundation of your house and at the same time add a little color by planting rose bushes completely around the house. If you plant them in a group of about five plants it can add texture and color to the area. You can also plant rose bushes to hide the problem areas of your yard. Just plant a few rose bushes or climbing Roses around your eyesores and in a few months they will have grown enough to produce beautiful flowers and to hide the problem.

Fences can be created by planting Roses. You can create privacy fences by using climbing Roses with trellises; a small circular fence using Roses is good for designating an area for reading or meditating. Dramatic effects can be attained by using combinations of yellow and red Roses together or even your pinks and dark blues. You can change to another atmosphere by using red Roses along with different shades of red in a different flower such as a geranium. Your choices are endless, it all depends on what mood you want to create.

Gardening for nature is probably the best way to create your Landscaping. You can have a wildlife habitat in your garden by planting Landscaping rose bushes. Roses provide shelter and food for many types of wildlife and the thorns on the bushes keeps away the predators. The rose hips keep the animals and birds fed during the winter months. If Roses are planted in a container on your patio or deck you can observe the wildlife even closer. It will not only attract the wildlife but will also liven up the patio with added color and fragrance.

You can also replace your annuals with rose buxhes. For all seasons, every year, a beautiful change would be a mass planting of bush Roses. So why go through the planting of impatiens, geraniums, and snapdragons every year? Choose the colors of Roses that can show off the perennials. If you have a white fence in the backyard you can plant shades of orange and yellow to liven it up. Some bright red Roses against a block wall or stone wall will make a lovely backdrop.

Companion plants such as blue cornflowers along with violet heliotrope will work nicely with yellow, pink, and white Roses. You can plant a rose bush tree in a container to place on the deck or patio. There is always room in any Landscaping for Roses such as bushes, trees, or climbers.