Rose is entitled as''Queen of flowers''. Growing roses is really a big art. High quality roses production is indeed a highly skilled job.
The roses are prepared for exhibition purpose in spring. Following practices were carried out for the said purpose.
Selection
The varity/cultiver is selected according to choice , growth habit, place and reqiurement. There is vast variety of species and cultivers among roses.
Modern Roses
Roses are now generally classified as under.
Hybrid Tea Roses
Floribunda Roses
Grandiflora Roses
Miniature Roses
Climber and Rambler Roses
Growing roses requires no gardening skills or experience. Essentially, there are three easy steps:
i. Choose the right rose for your spaceii. Pant your rose where it will get at least six hours of sun each day
iii. Water regularly
Roses thrive in a variety of soils. Roses preffer a soil that retains the moisture but drains the excess water so that soil's natural air spaces do not remain filled with water for any length of time. Clay loam soil should be selected having good amount of sand in order to ensure proper drainage and aeration for roots. The silt should be selected and mixed with well rotten leaves or compost of good quality. DAP fertilizer may also be added to ensure excllent growth. Proir to mixing of media it should let be dried well under sun that kills the germs and fungus attack is greately reduced. The media is to be rfined, mixed, made soft and fine. Pots of required size mostly 14 inches pot or 18 inches pots are used for growing in clay pots.
Transplanting
The roses already planted in soil earth via cuttings and duly grafted needes to be tranferred in pots. Great care is needed while getting roses from field with earth balls. Make it sure that erath ball is safe and roots are cut with fine tool. Roots should not be damaged. The plants with earth ball are now placed in pots and the media is added along with that and the pot is filled completely. Immediate irrigation is required. Roses are senstive to salts therefore good quality water should be made available for irrigation.
Priuning
2-3 days after shifting the plants in the pots the roses needs to be pruined carefully. The gap of said days is required so that the plants get firm in pot and roots may not be disturded while pruining. Pruining is very technical in case of roses. Priune the branches which intermingle and awkward shape. Priune the plant so that it may give vigorous bracnhes grown to have quality flowers. Mostly 4-5 main branches are kept for flowering in abundance and good quality. Hard and soft pruining is kept in view of time when to get flowers.
Terminology for Roses
Blade: The broad part of a leaf.
Bract: A modified or reduced leaf that occurs beneath and next to a peduncle.
Bud Union: The swollen part of the stem where the scion of a grafted rose meets the understock.
Calyx: The protective cover of a rose flower, composed o the sepals.
Cane: One of the main stems of a rose plant.
Climbers: Roses whose long canes can be trained along fences or walls, variable in flower size, form and mature habit.
Corolla: The petals of a rose flower considered as a single unit.
Cultivar: A named rose variety exhibiting distinct and consistent features, indicated by single quotation marks.
Floribunda: Medium sized flowers often more compact in habit, medium length stems.
Grandiflora: Large flowers borne in clusters usually taller in habit, individual stems within each cluster are suitable or cutting.
Hip: The fruit of a rose Inflorescence: the flowering part of a plant; a rose inflorescence may bear single or multiple flowers.
Hybrid Tea: Large flowers generally borne one per stem, medium to tall in habit, long cutting stems.
Leaflet: The individual segment of a compound rose leaf.
Miniatures: Small flowered roses with proportionately smaller foliage,often very compact in habit, stems are also shorter but still suitable for cutting.
Node: The point on a stem from which leaves and buds emerge.
Old Rose: Strictly speaking, a rose introduced before 1867, but more loosely used to describe any rose grown or introduced before 1900 Once-blooming: a rose that flowers only once in early summer and does not repeat.
Own-root: A rose propagated as a cutting rather than by grafting.
Peduncle: A stalk that supports a single flower or flower cluster Petal: the showy, usually colored part of a flower.
Petiole: The stalk by which a leaf attaches to a stem; also leafstalk.
Pistil: The female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an ovary, style, and stigma.
Polyanthas: Small flowers borne in very large clusters, usually compact in habit, medium-short stems.
Prickle: The technical term for a rose thorn.
Root-stock: The root portion of a plant onto which the scion is grafted; also understock
Rugosas: Species or near-species roses valued for their hardiness old fashioned flowers and fountainous habits. Many are available on their own roots.
Scion: A shoot grafted onto a rootstock; the "top" of a grafted rose.
Sepal: One of the five individual, leaflike divisions of the calyx.
Shrubs: Free blooming plants with differing flower sizes and forms, broadly varying in mature size but of full bushy attractive habit,usually good disease resistance and hardiness.
Shrublets™: Roses of varying habits which are never too big to tuck into restricted garden spaces.
Sport: A spontaneous genetic mutation, often resulting in a plant that bears flowers of a different color or with more or fewer petals than the original plant.
Stamen: The male reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of a filament and anther.
Stipule: A small, leaflike appendage that occurs at the base of the petiole.
Sucker: A stem, usually unwanted, that originates from a rootstock
