Planting is the first step to consider when compiling a list of rose gardening tips. Folklore tells us to plant flowering plants when the moon is in a waxing phase. Indeed all plants that produce their most desirable growth above ground are said to be best planted during the time the moon is growing into its biggest, most visible, phase.
(In turn, plant carrots, potatoes, and other plants where underground action is most desirable when the moon is waning, or becoming less visible.)
Trim your hair, visit your barber, or comb your dog the day before planting your roses. This, another of folklore's rose gardening tips, ensures you’ll have a bit of hair to mix in with the soil in which you plant your roses. Decomposing hair is said to provide excellent fertilizer for thriving roses.
Sunshine is one of the most important rose gardening tips. Make sure to plant your roses, always during their dormant phase, in a spot where they can get at lease six hours of full sun every day.
Rose gardening tips include trees, too. Keep your roses away from tree roots, especially deciduous trees, or they will divert the soils nutrients from your hungry roses.
Roses need lots of room to breathe fresh air so add plenty of space to your rose gardening tips. Fungal infections are persistent problems with roses and room for adequate air circulation might help minimize this problem.
Aphids like your roses as much as you do. You might include a thriving population of ladybugs in your rose gardening tips. Ladybugs (also known as green fly) like your aphids as much as aphids like your roses.
Pruning is a tricky item to add to your rose gardening tips. Proper pruning will either make or break next seasons blooming phase and proper pruning depends upon which type of rosebush you’ve got. Trailing roses have different needs than bushy or stately roses. Those that bloom once each year require different pruning techniques than those that are ever blooming.