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Re: 1st Attempt to grow roses in Houston (or anywhere)

William,

Roses do better in the garden than in pots; however, we grow 30,000 roses
in pots for our local garden center sales (about 5% of our total rose crop)
and  I have found that a well drained soil is of utmost importance.  Keep
your roses in area with much air movement and full sun.  Always bottom
water, keeping the moisture away from the leaves.  There are many methods
of natural pest control, (do a search on the web for some reading material)
and one can spend much money at this, yet when you begin as mentioned above
this will deter many problems.  Minis and micros tend to be more decease
prone than some of the 'Antique', 'Shrub', and 'Rugosa' Roses.  There is an
interesting series of 'Pavement' Rugosa roses which may be the ultimate
option for your project--they are very hardy and decease resistant!  You
are welcome to visit our web site 'http://hortico.bigwave.ca/' and check
out some of the varieties.

Sincerely,
John Vanderkruk,
jv


At 01:49 PM 1/22/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I have just gotten two Rose cultivars which I have planted in a good rose mix
>soil in a 14" and a 16" pot.  One is a bush rose called F.J. Grootendorst
>(which
>I have been told is a Rugosa hybrid) and the other is a floribunda called 
>Iceberg.  I live in Houston, Tx., which is in USDA zone 9a Upper Texas Gulf
>Coast.  I would like to keep my plants including the roses organic and need
>to find 
>something organic to eliminate or prevent the pathogens which will likely
>attack 
>these plants in the hot, wet climate in Houston.  Any suggestions would be
>greatly 
>appreciated.  
>
>One suggestion I received was to let these live their potentially short
lives 
>and go gets some antique roses to replace them.
>
>I am also interested in growing other roses in pots and my inclination is
>to mini's 
>and micro's.  What suggestions do all you Rosarians have for small
>cultivars which 
>will do well in containers in Hot, Humid, Houston TX.
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