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| My wife and I just moved into a new house and will soon be planting a rose garden in the front yard. We would like a border of hybrid tea roses all the way around the circumference of our large, oval-shaped front lawn.
We do NOT want a hedge-like appearance. Instead we would prefer that each rose be its own centerpiece with adequate separation between its neighboring plants. We would like a roomy, generous (but not empty) spacing. There will be a variety of hybrid tea roses, of mixed colors and varieties. We would like a clean, well-manicured, symmetrical, roomy, and orderly appearance. Any suggestions on spacing to achieve this desired effect would be appreciated! (Pictures and measurements, for inspiration, would also be great!) |
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| Normally in a bed you would space them 3 feet from center to center of the plants. For your purposes you may want to make that 4 or 5 feet to give a more specimen effect. It would make a more stately look and less of a "bed" look. Sounds really lovely and you'll have to post some pics when you finish! |
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- Posted by ken-n.ga.mts (My Page) on Thu, Apr 19, 12 at 22:04
| When I lived in FL I had a 6' on center garden. Just enough room to get around each bush without that empty look. |
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| If you are in SOUTHERN California, you can get by with 4-ft. centers. You could spread as wide as 5' centers. (You understand that is measuring from the center of one plant to the center of the next plant. That said, if you want the sort of uniform appearance I'm hearing, you will want to pay attention to the individual growth habits of the roses you select. Even among HTs, some grow taller than others. Some are more upright. Some spread more widely. The only way you will have a uniform look is to use all the same cultivar, or vary between 2 or three cultivars. Jeri |
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| I vote for ken-n.ga.mts' spacing for what you describe. I spaced mine at 3 ft centers over ten years ago and with few exceptions, it's not nearly as much as you thought it would be. Add an Elina or McCartney rose in there (even a Peace if well-fed), and you will exceed 3-4 ft centers in a couple of years. They will all be touching and growing over each other. Jeri makes a good point, too. There are major differences in the bushes' habits, even among hybrid teas. You could probably study for awhile, come up with a list, and then post it here for opinions on bush height and range. That was one of my biggest tasks when planting most of mine - trying to figure out which one would be tallest, etc. The problem is that no one has all of the roses that you want in one place and height reports vary widely - seems everything is "5-6 ft", but you will find that ends up meaning some are 4 ft and some are 8 ft (or a couple of 10 footers). ;-) Just as an example, Help-Me-Find lists Elina as 4'. It gets to 8' almost every year in my yard. |
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| Thank you, everyone, for the great replies and suggestions. If I'm hearing this right, a spacing of at least five feet between holes seems to be the way to go. I'll be compiling a list of desired hybrid tea roses and posting it here soon for feedback. Thanks again! Zachary |
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| "We would like a clean, well-manicured, symmetrical, roomy, and orderly appearance." I would choose only one color all red OR at most 2 colors unless you have a clown costume to go with all colors lol I like all color roses i just don't think they would look good mixed in one area |
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| If you'd like a "softer" look, there are many different shades of pink. Throw in an occasional white or white blend for some contrast--you could get qute a variety just going with pinks, pink blends, whites, white blends. Or for those who like more visual stimulation, blends of yellow and apricot and gold--maybe a few oranges thrown in for some extra stimulus--that would work also. I'm partial to blends, in case you didn't guess. At any rate, I'm trying to give you some consistency and uniformity without it becoming boring and monotonous. The more you focus on one color, the more hedgelike it will look, in my opinion. Kate |
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| yum! |
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| If you want to mix it up, go for it! I have never seen Mother Nature plant in monochromatic color schemes and wildflower fields always look gorgeous! |
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